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Stupid Political Move Hurts the Local Construction Industry


Posted on Dec 09, 2010

Stupid Political Move Hurts the Local Construction Industry - N.J. Must Pay $271M to Feds for Killing Tunnel to N.Y.

New Jersey owes the federal government $271.1 million for canceling the Access to Region’s Core "ARC" rail tunnel connecting New Jersey to New York. An invoice from the Federal Transit Administration's chief financial officer to NJ Transit's executive director was sent Nov. 24 and is due within 30 days.

Sham ‘Minority’ Business Dealings by Schiavone

Schiavone Construction Co. has agreed to pay a $22.4-million civil settlement in response to a federal investigation of Schiavone’s use of phony companies in place of legitimate minority-owned businesses on four big New York City infrastructure contracts, prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Brooklyn stated. U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch said that the firm admitted that "some of its employees engaged in a scheme to defraud" public agencies by submitting reports between 2002 and 2007 representing that the company was using certified minority business enterprises (MBEs), women business enterprises (WBEs) and disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) on the projects.

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