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Prosecutors alleged that between 2013 and 2020, GCI didn’t follow the rules on how to calculate prices, leading to the company getting more in subsidies than it was entitled to. The prosecutors also said GCI caused rural health care provider Eastern Aleutian Tribes Inc. to agree to inflated prices after a contract was competitively bid. That also led to GCI knowingly getting additional higher payments, in this case from 2015 to 2018, according to the Justice Department.
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The settlement resolves claims that GCI inflated its prices under a federal program supporting telecommunications needs for rural medical providers. A former GCI employee raised the allegations in a whistleblower complaint.