Opinion ID: 221854
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Government Recoupment Line Item Price

Text: In his reply brief, Yannacopoulos takes issue with the fact that a $29,047,706 line item for U.S. Government recoupment was included in the total contract price set forth in Modification Five. [19] This was false, he says, because a later amendment to Contract 5/86 states that most of this money had already been repaid to the United States. Moreover, he claims that Article 8.7 of Contract 5/86 prohibits this line item  accurate or not  from being included in the contract price in the first place. By placing an inaccurate price for the government recoupment line item into the total price of Contract 5/86, Yannacopoulos says, Lockheed inflat[ed] the contract's total price and conceal[ed] the fact that [it had retained] millions of dollars of [loan] funds that defendants had been paid for the value of work they never performed. Yannacopoulos waived this argument for purposes of this appeal. Unlike his argument regarding the coproduction program line item  the falsity of which Yannacopoulos also argued only in his reply brief  Yannacopoulos failed to present any facts or argument regarding the government recoupment line item anywhere in his opening brief's discussion of Modification Five. The argument was waived. E.g., United States v. Diaz, 533 F.3d 574, 577 (7th Cir.2008). [20]