The State Highway Administration purchasing official who paid $26.99 a can for windshield de-icer that costs about 97 cents at retail is still on the job and still has a government-issued credit card, lawmakers learned yesterday. SHA Administrator Neil J. Pedersen told the General Assembly's Joint Audit Committee that the employee and others who paid exorbitant amounts for janitorial and maintenance items have not been disciplined because of a pending criminal investigation. Pedersen said they have retained their credit cards - which were used to purchase such items as toilet bowl cleaner at 16 times its retail cost - because...
