Fort Collins: Fraud means you don’t get more

FORT COLLINS — Committing fraud means that a party is not entitled to additional payments from the party defrauded, the city of Fort Collins contended in a reply to a motion from the companies that failed to complete writing the software for the city’s Connexion internet utility.

The city won a judgment against Open International LLC and Open Investments LLC, related Florida companies that the city had engaged to write the software for utility billing, starting with Connexion but eventually to include the community’s other utilities.

After spending millions, the city determined that Open had misled it and filed suit to…