Justice Dept forms group to combat contracting fraud

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is forming a special group of prosecutors and watchdogs from several agencies to fight bid-rigging, price fixing and other fraud that hurts competition in federal government contracting.
Justice officials say the new effort against collusion in government procurement aims to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in contracting.
They noted that last year the federal government spent more than $550 billion, or about 40% of all non-mandated spending, on con