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By adamg - 1/23/08 - 5:51 pm

$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:

By adamg - 8/20/06 - 10:18 pm

The Outraged Liberal reads today's Globe article on Bechtel's apparent non-concern about I-90 connector bolts and concludes: Looks like Mitt Romney got the wrong scalp:

... Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, the well-connected management company designed to oversee the project opted to save money rather than push for safety. Under the oversight of Kerasiotes. And Cellucci.

By adamg - 8/10/06 - 8:52 am

Seems Bechtel is worried that the tests on the I-90 connector bolts might cause "not readily apparent" problems with the bolts. Which apparently are different from the not readily apparent problems that caused Milena Del Valle's death, Jay Fitzgerald writes.

Beth on Grand Mental Station: How do these guys sleep at night?

... Give me a goddamned break.

By adamg - 8/4/06 - 10:14 am

Real or faked? John Daley ponders the possibly alleged ceiling memo, including Howie Carr's Globe bashing, says it's all great fun but adds:

... But there's also the public interest, apparently lost in all the posturing and foaming at the mouth. Maybe the memo is real. Maybe not. It's an important question for how blame and liability will be assigned. Nothing happening in either newspaper now is contributing to getting the answer. ...

By adamg - 7/24/06 - 12:23 pm

Aaron Margolis spends some time with a state database and finds some fun financial threads connecting Bechtel with various state legislators and others who theoretically might have something to say about any possible wrongdoing at Bechtel's Big Dig.

The Globe also looks at the Bechtel way.

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