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The University of Georgia Athletic Association has dropped Hardin Construction Co. as prime contractor on an $18.6-million expansion of an office and practice facility building in Athens, Ga., because of concern following the Dec. 19, 2008, collapse of a deck section that killed one worker at a Hardin project at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens. “We didn’t want additional attention brought to the [new] project while that incident is being investigated,” says Arthur Johnson, associate athletic director. Atlanta-based Hardin is contesting a proposed safety fine over the accident. Although the final contract for the expansion project at Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall had
Two former employees of Aggregate Industries NE Inc., Saugus, Mass., pleaded guilty on July 8 to 12 charges involving a conspiracy to deliver substandard concrete to the $15-billion Central Artery/Tunnel project. Four more employees are scheduled to go to trial this week in U.S. District Court in Boston. Gerard M. McNally and Keith H. Thomas pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy, five counts of mail fraud and five counts of filing false reports stemming from a 2006 indictment alleging that, between 1996 and 2005, the six defendants delivered at least 5,000 10-yd truckloads of “non-specification” concrete to the project.
British steel-bridge manufacturer Mabey & Johnson Ltd. pleaded guilty on July 10 to corrupt practices in Jamaica and Ghana between 1993 and 2001 and violating United Nations’ sanctions against trade with Iraq in 2001 and 2002. The company is the first to be prosecuted in the U.K. for corruption overseas and faces court sentencing later this summer, says the Serious Fraud Office, the independent government agency that investigated and prosecuted the case. Mabey & Johnson, based in Reading, England, supplies small to medium size prefabricated modular bridges. The firm volunteered evidence of corruption to authorities last year following its own
U.K.-based bridge steel bridge manufacturer Mabey & Johnson Ltd., Reading, pleaded guilty on July 10 to corrupt practices in Jamaica and Ghana between 1993 and 2001, and also of breaking United Nations’ sanctions over trading with Iraq in 2001-2002. The company is the first to be prosecuted in the U.K. for corruption overseas, according to Serious Fraud Office, the prosecutor. Mabey & Johnson, which supplies small to medium size prefabricated modular bridges, was committed to sentencing by the Crown Court later this summer. The firm volunteered evidence of corruption to the authorities last year following its own internal investigation in
Billions of dollars in fast-track federal construction stimulus spending is expected to boost cases of fraud and ratchet up government scrutiny, say industry executives. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s $787-billion spending total will likely lure many out-of-work firms into the federal contracting arena, boosting competition and fraud potential. “There is a lot of public pressure to step up enforcement of taxpayer money,” said Mark A. Aiello, a partner with Foley Lardner LLP, Detroit, at the Construction Financial Management Association’s annual conference, held last month in Las Vegas. Subcontractors and third-tier suppliers also are subject to federal sanctions for front-loaded
A former resident engineer in Iraq for the Army Corps of Engineers was indicted on May 4 by the Justice Dept. on federal charges of soliciting $40,000 in bribes from an unidentified construction contractor on a $2.5-million civil-works project in Kirkuk. DOJ says Joselito “Joe” Domingo of Bolingbrook, Ill., who the Corps recently transferred to Afghanistan, solicited the bribes in exchange for assurances that the contractor would receive progress payments, not lose its contract or be blacklisted from work in Iraq. Domingo faces up to 15 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.
两位前办公室做事ials of a California firm that bills itself as the “world’s leading provider” of specialty service control valves in global energy and industrial facilities will be sentenced on July 20 after pleading guilty to federal corruption charges for bribery and conspiracy. Six other former executives of Rancho Santa Margarita-based Control Components Inc., including ex-CEO Stuart Carson, were indicted last month by the U.S. Dept. of Justice on similar charges. Neither the firm, a unit of U.K.-based IMI plc, nor current managers were indicted. DOJ charged Carson and the five other executives with multiple counts under the Foreign Corrupt
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn, N.Y., announced two new arrests this month related to an ongoing probe of corruption on construction projects for New York City utility Consolidated Edison Corp. The investigation had led to charges filed in January against 10 current and former Con Ed construction officials who allegedly accepted $1 million in kickbacks from contractors, but the contractors were neither identified nor charged at the time. Now U.S. Attorney Benton J. Campbell has said the alleged corruption occurred in connection with work at Metropolitan Transit Authority and city Dept. of Environmental Protection jobsites where Con Ed was working. According
With one former governor in federal prison and another possibly on his way, prosecutors have argued that Illinois is perhaps the most corrupt state in the nation. Fed up with the scandals, lawmakers are promising changes in the way contractors do business with the Land of Lincoln. Photo: AP/Wideworld Ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) has pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges. In the wake of scandal and the economic stimulus act, proposals for reform measures are flowing through both chambers of the statehouse in Springfield, Ill. “We haven’t seen the final package yet, but indications are they are comprehensive
The U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y., announced two new arrests related to an ongoing probe of corruption on construction projects of giant New York utility Consolidated Edison. The sting had led to charges filed in January against 10 current and former Con Ed construction officials for receiving $1 million in kickbacks from contractors. Benton J. Campbell said Russell Ball, CEO of Roadway Construction Inc., Brooklyn, was charged on April 16 with paying “tens of thousands of dollars in bribes” to Con Ed officials on water-main and utility-line construction projects between 2002 and 2004. He made the payments in exchange for