Correct, Amarello is just a sacrificial lamb. All the designs and most of the construction occurred before he came to office.
The real villain is Parsons Brinkerhof who had overall design responsibility. Every subcontractor found out PB were arrogant, refused to listen to advice and feedback, and routinely over-ruled the construction guys who pointed out the flaws.
Wait until the criminal charges are filed!
There are several characters in the leadership chain of the project that apparently were incompetent. Parsons Brinkerhof was simply one of several. Its amazing to watch US businesses and government organizations who are readily hiring fools...and they know these people are fools...and paying them huge sums of money. When you look at Enron...Lay was an absolute fool at business organization and knowing a success from a fail. When you look at FEMA...Brown had no real emergency background whatsoever...he was a political geek who looked good on camera. This is America in 2006....a sorry state of leadership.
Amarello has culpability to spare. The tragedy with the poor woman who was killed was not one of those things that could have been prevented if everyone had done his job, it was one of those things that could have been prevented if anyone had done his job.
Prior to (and surprisingly after) the tragedy, Amarello made affirmative statements, like, "The tunnel is safe." He has a legal and moral responsibility not to make such statements without a reasonable basis. I content that due to gross negligence on his part he was in no position to make any such statement, and the statement was manifestly untrue.
If you're last name is not Kennedy, and if you brother was not an assassinated president, gross negligence resulting in the death of another is the legal definition of manslaughter.
FINALLY!!!! Someone else who knows what the hell was REALLY going on. Everyone likes to blame the contractors, when all along is was B/PB who was the real schmucks up there!