Financial Crisis Hits Boston's Big Dig
26 January 2001 - 11:00am
A scathing report charges that officials overseeing Boston's Big Dig project wasted $83 million.
"Big Dig officials wasted more than $83 million in taxpayer money by failing to hold designers responsible for mistakes, according to a new report from the Inspector General's office. The report also criticizes the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which oversees the $14.1 billion project, and their management consultants for shoddy record keeping, lost files and conflicts of interest."
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The Boston Globe, January 26, 2001
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