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Cost of a Big Dig settlement? $458 million. Absolution from any criminal or civil charges? Priceless
By adamg on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 5:51pm
$458m Big Dig settlement exempts firms from criminal charges in tunnel collapse.
Casey Ross reports not everybody's happy with the settlement, such as state Sen. Robert Hedlund, a Weymouth Republican, who says:
There are rivers pouring through our tunnels, one woman has died, and the public trust has been irrevocably broken. Yet Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff has been able to buy themselves out of trouble for just $399 million. That figure represents pocket-change for a pair of firms that have pocketed billions of taxpayer dollars.
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Outrageous!!!
It's bad enough that the companiy(ies) responsible for overseeing the Big Dig went derelict in their responsibilities to do things correctly and to prevent the horrible things, including the fatality that happened to do such poor, shabby work, but the fact that they're not even going to be prosecuted on criminal charges like they should be is even more outrageous. How stupid and vicious can people get, folks? These are the lives of the public that they've been playing around with for all this time, and nobody seems to care. What the hell happened to accountability in our society?? It's gone--fallen by the wayside, that's what!
This is disgusting, outrageous and sickening. I avoid traveling through that Big Pig whenever I can.
Martha Must go
martha must go!