The State Attorney General of North Carolina announced another settlement in the environmental services bid rigging scandal that has been investigated over the past three years.

In this latest settlement, CBM Environmental Services and its CEO will pay $350,000 for conspiring to rig bids for cleanup work associated with leaky underground petroleum tanks.

CBM is the eighth services firm to be implicated in the case, which started back in April 2003 when officials sued the firms after receiving uniformly suspiciously high bids to clean up tanks around the state in response to an RFP. Read more about it here.

Commentary: Not an earth-shattering case, but an interesting learning moment/vignette to share with employees. Obviously, it is not easy to get 8 firms to collude and have it be kept a secret.