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Ethics & Corruption
Reports about design professional practice ethics and investigations and civil and criminal cases related to bidding and building, including political donations, organized crime, conflicts of interest, bribery, embezzlement, bid-rigging and relationships with clients and the public. |
2008 Headlines
| 12/10/08 | Illinois Governor Arrested Under Federal Conspiracy Charges Operation Board Games, a widening, five-year probe of pay-to-play corruption in Illinois state government, culminated on Dec. 9 with the arrests of Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) and John Harris, his chief of staff, for conspiring to commit fraud and soliciting bribes. |
| 12/03/08 | Feds Nail Birmingham Mayor For Bribes Over Sewer Bonds 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. |
| 11/19/08 | Contractor To Pay Feds $900,000 In Road Inflated-Billing Case P.A. Landers Inc., a Hanover, Mass., contractor, has agreed to pay the U.S. government $900,000 to settle a 2005 civil claim that firm officials submitted fake tickets inflating load weights for asphalt delivered to federal paving jobs from 1995 to 2003. |
More News
11/05/08 Alaska Contractor Is Central To Sen. Stevens' Conviction11/05/08 Contractor Suit Claiming Extortion By Utility Employees Set for Trial
10/22/08 Chinese Official Receives Death Sentence for Corruption on Construction Jobs
10/07/08 Tetra Tech Demotes President Over Status of College Degree
09/29/08 Feds Drop Charges Against Schiavone Manager
09/29/08 Trial Starts for Stevens On Charges Involving VECO
09/10/08 Ex-KBR CEO Guilty of Bribery
09/10/08 The Facility Group Struggles to Regroup
08/06/08 Ex-Tishman Manager Pleads Guilty To Embezzling $2.8 Million
08/06/08 Case Against Schiavone Exec Set To Be Dropped by Feds
08/06/08 Feds Drop Charges Against Schiavone Manager
07/30/08 U.S. Senator Ted Stevens Indicted In Charges Related to VECO Case
05/28/08 Federal Agents Probing Building-Permit Crimes File Charges
05/14/08 Contractors Get New Tool In Combatting Corruption Overseas
05/07/08 Construction Contractors Follow Defense Peers in Ethics Push
04/16/08 Inspector General's Probe Finds Corruption in Crane Licensing
04/16/08 United Rentals Co-Founder Indicted as Fraud Probe Widens
04/23/08 Britain Claims Bids Were Rigged
04/11/08 Prosecutors Charge Leaders Of Western N.Y. Locals
03/26/08 New York City Bridge Officials Plead Guilty To Taking Bribes
03/05/08 McCourt Construction Charged In Overbilling Scheme on CA/T
02/06/08 New Owner Pushes Change For Scandal-Plagued Veco
01/03/08 Federal Contractors Must Have Ethics Program Under Rule
01/09/08 Federal Regulators Detail United Rentals Fraud Scheme
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