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Stone & Webster Construction Inc. will pay $6.2 million to the federal government to settle a multi-year investigation into alleged improper recordkeeping of injuries and site safety under a $10-billion long-term contract with the Tennessee Valley Authority for modifications and maintenance work at nuclear plant sites in Tennessee and Alabama. The U.S. Justice Dept. announced the settlement Jan. 22 with Stone & Webster, based in Stoughton, Mass. and a subsidiary of Baton Rouge, La.-based The Shaw Group since 2000. The settlement also requires Stone & Webster to enter into a first-of-its kind comprehensive two-year monitoring agreement with TVA's Office of
十个当前施工主管和一个工夫ed supervisor at Consolidated Edison, the utility serving Manhattan and its northern suburbs, were arrested on Jan. 14 for soliciting and accepting more than $1 million in kickbacks since 2004 from a construction contractor. Prosecutors declined to identify the contractor because it is cooperating in the probe and will plead guilty, officials said. Work involved in the scheme included cleanup and repair of an underground steam pipe that exploded in Manhattan in July 2007, killing one pedestrian. U.S. Attorney Benton J. Campbell says the firm’s president and co-owner, also not identified, paid bribes in
Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) has withdrawn from his nomination as commerce secretary in President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet.In a Jan. 5 news conference, Richardson stated that an ongoing federal grand jury investigation into a state contract related to Governor Richardson’s Investment Partnership (GRIP), won by Beverly Hills, Calif.-based CDR Financial Products, “would have forced an untenable delay in the confirmation process.” The investigation centers around a $1.48-million consulting contract CDR won in 2004 with the New Mexico Finance Authority, a state agency that finances infrastructure projects. CDR was part of a team of financial services firms that advised NMFA on
The master rigger of a 200-ft-high tower crane that collapsed at a midtown Manhattan construction site last March, killing seven workers and civilians, was indicted Jan. 5 on multiple charges of manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault and reckless endangerment. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau also said that rigger William Rapetti, 48 and his firm Rapetti Rigging Services Inc., Massapequa, N.Y., failed to file tax returns. Photo: Debra K. Rubin/ENR District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announces indictment of tower crane rigger while Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn (left) noted stricter city crane safety rules. Following his arraignment, also on Jan. 5, Rapetti faces
Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford and two associates were arrested on Dec. 2 and charged with 101 federal counts including bribery and money laundering in connection with bond transactions and swap agreements related to bonds for a $3-billion county sewer project and other municipal financial deals. The charges stem from Langford’s time as president of the Jefferson County Commission and head of its Dept. of Finance and General Services. He was charged with soliciting bribes in exchange for steering business to William Blount, a Montgomery, Ala., investment banker. It was a classic pay-for-play scheme tied to the sewer bonds, says U.S.