![]() ![]() ![]() iCloud - OmniPlan iCloud folder now reliably displays in Finder.Printing - Projects now always print with a white background and black text, regardless of current theme. ![]() For more detail, see the Omni Automation Release Notes (available in the Automation API Reference via the Automation menu in the menu bar). Omni Automation - Omni Automation improvements.Omni Account - Closing an Omni Account can now be initiated via the Omni Account window.Leveling - A warning is now presented when leveling could cause a hammock task to stretch endlessly due to an assigned resource that is also in the dependency chain for the hammock’s end date.Leveling - Improved leveling logic related to resource availability.This is useful for automatically assigning an available conference room from a resource group of conference rooms, for example. Leveling - Leveling now supports assigning a resource group that contains only equipment resources with 0% efficiency (previously this would trigger a “no dependency chain available” violation).OmniPlan 4 is now localized in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, and Spanish on all platforms. The Rockwell manager drafted a memo but, according to the suit, it, too, was suppressed.OmniPlan 4.4 improves OmniPlan’s leveling and scheduling logic on all platforms, and introduces localizations on iPad and iPhone. In 1991, the suit added, a high-level Omniplan official gave a detailed account of his company's fraudulent billings in an interview with a Rockwell subcontracts manager. In 1989, a Rockwell auditor questioned more than $1.4 million in Omniplan's charges, but instead of ordering a full-scale investigation, the company instructed the auditor to revise his report, the Justice Department said. Although Rockwell's auditors discovered that her title and salary were bogus, the lawsuit said, Rockwell withheld the information from NASA and continued to renew its contract with Omniplan.Īccording to the lawsuit, Rockwell had evidence as early as 1986 that Omniplan was engaged in financial irregularities. Installed his wife as the figurehead president of Omniplan so the company could qualify for preferential selection by Rockwell as a minority-run business. The aerospace giant also vouched that Omniplan's cost-control procedures and management were excellent.īought three commercial buildings in the Houston area and rented them to his own company, Omniplan, at inflated rates, passing on the costs to the government.īilled for mortgage payments and maintenance costs on two homes and a ski lodge.Įmbezzled money from Omniplan's health-benefits and pension plan, using some of it to buy several pizza franchises, one of which he operated out of a building Omniplan rented for its work on the NASA contract.Ĭharged NASA for expenses on several other business ventures, including the production of a feature-length horror movie, which was not identified in the lawsuit. Rockwell's $4 billion NASA contract included a $350 million bonus based in part on how well it monitored its subcontractors. The suit alleges that Rockwell knew Montijo was using Omniplan's corporate accounts to pay for personal expenses when it approved his reimbursement by NASA. The suit filed Tuesday by the Justice Department seeks unspecified damages and penalties from Rockwell and Boeing North American, based in Seal Beach, Calif. In late 1996, Rockwell sold its defense and aerospace businesses to Boeing, which assumed the contracts under its Boeing North American division. He also was ordered to pay nearly $12 million in fines and restitution as part of a plea agreement. Omniplan's owner, Ralph Montijo Jr., 69, pleaded guilty to about 180 criminal counts in 1996 and was sentenced to two years in federal prison. The civil complaint accuses Rockwell International, a prime contractor for NASA's space shuttle and space station, of knowingly concealing the fraud by its now-defunct subcontractor, Houston-based Omniplan. LOS ANGELES - NASA unwittingly shelled out millions of dollars to a subcontractor who used it to make a horror movie, rent space for his pizza franchise, vacation around the world and pay the mortgage on two family homes and a ski lodge, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles federal court. used millions to make a horror movie, rent space for his pizza franchise and pay the mortgage on two family homes and a ski lodge, according to the suit. ![]()
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