International Student Recruiting Firm and Co-Founder to Pay $1.3M to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations Related to the U.S. Department of Education’s Direct Loan Program

Massachusetts company Study Across the Pond LLC (SATP) and its principal, John Borhaug, have agreed to pay $1,300,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing foreign schools in the United Kingdom (UK) to submit false claims and false statements to the U.S. Department of Education in connection with the Direct Loan Program through arrangements that violated the federal ban on incentive-based compensation.