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I can't explain why there were no criminal charges (likely because it's a breach of contract, which is not a criminal affair), but the remote company only performed about 35% of the work. If the actual contractor still had to do 65% of the work, the costs of that would be substantially higher than the 268K they have left after the fine.

I know the US Government isn't super-efficient, but I cannot imagine that, even if they'd performed 100% of the work, it would only cost $412K - that would leave such a massive amount of room for competitors to come in and under-bid them. Or maybe it really did only cost them that much, and the Government is fining them 100% of the profits they made.