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Massachusetts Inspector General Says Bechtel Masked Role in Big Dig Overruns.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 27--The company in charge of the Big Dig has concocted a "cover story" to distance itself from $1 billion in cost overruns that were the result of errors, omissions, and other problems in plans for which the company ultimately had responsibility, state Inspector General Gregory W. Sullivan said yesterday.
In defending its performance, the joint firm of Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff "has tried to evade responsibility for cost overruns by misrepresenting and minimizing its obligations under its contract," Sullivan said, after releasing a 54-page report responding to the company's rebuttal to a Boston Globe series on the errors and overruns.
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