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Vellucci said that the cause of the fires, the first in three years, might be the practice of the Perini Corporation of dumping material excavated from the MBTA subway tunnels that the contractor is digging in the Square...
Officials at the Perini Corporation, the contractor building the Square's new subway station, said last week that the barricade was put in place while workers destroy the temporary station built while the permanent site was constructed off Church...
...Civil Rights Division's most recent triumph was the conviction last month of four men in federal court in Tampa, Fla., for conspiracy to hold farm workers in involuntary servitude. Willie Warren Sr., an Orlando labor contractor who hired migrant crews for farmers in f Florida and North Carolina, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison. Willie Warren Jr., who worked for his father, was given 15 years. Another son, Richard, and an associate each got five years. A third son, Dennis, got 20 years in a North Carolina slavery case involving a potato-field worker who died...
...Students do a much better job. I'd hate to go to an outside contractor because it would create utter chaos," said Joe A. Dussault, supervisor of custodial services...
...felt this was overkill." But Joseph Welsch, inspector general of the U.S. Transportation Department, says a reliable rule of thumb is that "rigged bids cost taxpayers about 15% more than unrigged bids," a margin of greed that could add up to hundreds of millions of dollars in probable contractor overcharges in the past few years alone...