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Maguire, the Harvard Square Development Task Force and an official from the General Service Administration (GSA) arranged a meeting at City Hall for last Wednesday morning to "clear the air" on charges that Maguire had reversed its conclusions in a report on a new shipping facility under pressure from its client, the Massachusetts Port Authority...
...Maguire executives came prepared for the City Hall showdown with charts, reports and a Massport official, ready to explain the firm's conduct. But at 11 p.m. the night before the GSA reneged on its commitment to attend...
Andrew Kauders, an official in the GSA's Department of Environmental Affairs, said he had been ordered not to attend by "my superior and ultimately his superior." Kauders was unavailable for comment the rest of the week...
...civic leaders refused to proceed with the hearing unless a representative from GSA, Maguire's employer, attended. "Because GSA hired Maguire and is ultimately responsible for the conduct of the firm and the study, it is important for the GSA to send a representative," Oliver Brooks, chairman of the task force, said...
Through its attorney, Gerald Gillerman, the task force told the government that civic leaders considered Maguire's integrity and this hearing important. The GSA backed down the next day and agreed to send a representative to the hearing, rescheduled for 7:30 p.m. next Tuesday at City Hall...