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Massachusetts' Records on Minority Contractors to Undergo Federal Review.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2004
By Raphael Lewis, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 7--The Federal Highway Administration will begin poring over records and procedures at the state's minority business certification office this month amid allegations that politically connected companies have been improperly certified and later obtained lucrative subcontracts on the Big Dig and other projects, state and federal officials said yesterday.
The first federal review of the State Office of Women and Minority Business Assistance will occur as federal authorities step up criminal probes in Boston and nationally to root out fraud in the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program, which ensures minority participation in federally funded construction work.
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