Article from FLN by FLN Staff.
A top consultant involved in California’s ever-burgeoning high-speed rail boondoggle is now being investigated due to the efforts of Republican state Assemblyman Jim Patterson.
The consultant under investigation is the deputy chief operating officer for the California High-Speed Rail Authority, Roy Hill. Hill, who also worked for the Rail Authority was also employed by the consulting firm WSP, also owned more than $100,000 worth of stock in Jacobs Engineering. The same company that was awarded a 51 million dollar contract by Hill to participate in California’s High-Speed Rail project. Talk about a conflict of interests, as Fox News reported:
“We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards,” Denise Turner Roth, chief development officer for WSP USA, said in a statement. “We take these allegations seriously, and will cooperate fully with the investigation. Mr. Hill has been temporarily suspended while this matter is reviewed.”
The investigation into Hill marks another setback for the controversial rail project, which California Gov. Gavin Newsom vowed to plow forward with earlier this year – albeit in a reduced capacity.
In his first state of the state address earlier this year, Newsom said he was shelving plans for a high-speed rail line between Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area, and instead moving ahead with a line between Bakersfield and Merced through the state’s agricultural heartland.
The embattled $77 billion bullet train – which had long been championed by Newsom’s predecessor, Jerry Brown – is years behind schedule, with the latest estimate for completion set for 2033. Bullet train planners had been under increasing pressure to make progress on the system that many believe had no plausible way of living up to its goal of getting riders across the state in three hours or less.
As always, when it comes to big government corruption, it’s the taxpayers who suffer most.
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It is California so what else is new. One would be hard pressed to find an honest person or real American in the entire state government. If the state was split into several states all that would do was produce several corrupt states.
WERE IT NOT for a gaggle of illegal aliens and one issue Liberals the State of California could never have been taken over and raped by ever increasing taxes–check Your grocery and fuel bills—-all the while They have been feathering Their Own nests.
Corruption in California, no, you must be joking ? How could anyone say such a thing ?
Tip of the IceBerg
There are thousands of corrupt Government Officials in California
You people have blind patriotism to corrupt politicians and a false mindsets that any government is too big to fight or fail and that any other party vote is wasted besides the established corrupt rhinos and especially the anti-American democrats and their tool for that agenda the bought out biased medias propaganda LIES and Until all people Unite to stop this , the corrupt politicians will continue getting fat by screwing you people over! Remember the corrupt politicians actually fear All the people’s unity to fight them, that’s why they continue by any means necessary to place certain false mindsets against the people! Beware the liberalism of the lowering of standards to pacify all that hurts all and remember to stop the real enemy of the people the anti-American democrats and medias for they are the party and People of Hate and Division!
Crookedness in California, is this something new?
Nearly 100 DemLibs in DC have signed onto the Green New Deal, which has all mammalian life on Erff extinguished by 2029. This begs the question, who/what will be commuting between Bakersfield and Merced when the Bullet Train begins running its route in 2033? Has anyone aksed Goobernor Newsome that pregunta?
Highest Cost-Per-Mile / Ridership “train” system is in Washington State, our bonndoogle “ Sound Transit System”, which currently has 23 people running it that each make more than the Governor of our State. When this fact was pointed out in several local expose stories, STS management simply ignored the outcry and continued their rape and pillage of taxpayers. Once you get one of these giant projects in place the costs, corruption, arrogance and insanity continue to plague your state. Good luck, Calif…