Posted on 03/10/2021 10:09:46 AM PST by Red Badger
On top of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s nursing-home scandal and sexual-harassment charges comes new cause for concern: an alleged coverup of serious flaws in the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.
On Monday, the New York Thruway Authority denied any issues of concern over the $3.9 billion span, which replaced the Tappan Zee Bridge in 2017. But a report Sunday in The Albany Times Union alleges that the contractor “covered up” structural problems — faulty bolts — potentially endangering the public, and the authority basically let it slide.
“The bridge has been and continues to be safe,” insisted Jamey Barbas, the director of the construction project. Yet Barbas ultimately answers to a governor who covered up the deaths of helpless nursing-home residents. How can the public trust Barbas any more than Health Commissioner Howard Zucker?
The TU investigation included interviews with “multiple people who worked on the project” and reviews of “engineering reports, scientific analyses, court records and correspondence on file with the attorney general’s office” — which did its own investigation and reached a settlement with the bridge-building consortium, Tappan Zee Constructors.
The AG probe consisted of reviews by the Inspector General’s Office and the Thruway Authority, but the paper said its own reporting “raised questions about the thoroughness” of those reviews and the “relief obtained”: a $2 million penalty and a one-year warranty extension on “a limited number of sections of the bridge.”
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the “relief obtained”: a $2 million penalty and a one-year warranty extension
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So they got an extended warranty, so they’re good to go, right?
So the Cuomo bridge is faulty, just like the family.
I bet, when/if push comes to shove, that ‘warranty’ won’t be worth anything. But it sounds good to a not very deep thinking public.
Would be nice to build jail cells on the bridge for the corrupt contractors, inspectors, and politicians who got the payoffs. How quickly they’d tell you the location of every counterfeit bolt, because if it goes, they go.
Gillibrand: Saying women officials should address Cuomo scandal 'isn't the conversation'
This **** is getting out of control.
It’s a mad mad world.
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