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Parsons Settles Overbilling Case: The Pasadena-based firm will pay the government $3.2 million to settle allegations it overbilled the Air Force, the Justice Department announced. Assistant Atty. Gen. Frank Hunger, head of the civil division, said the payment will settle a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Raleigh, N.C., on April 21, 1993, by J.R. Tucker, a former employee of Parsons Engineering Sciences Inc. Tucker, who filed suit on behalf of the government, will receive $354,750 of the settlement as compensation for bringing the matter to light. The Justice Department said a federal inquiry found Parsons charged the Air Force for employees’ labor at a rate too high for their work experience. The case involves mischarges at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas on two contracts under which Parsons billed a total of $76 million for environmental surveys and other services.