05-10-2009, 08:52 AM
This is why Mass is such a fucked up state.
The largest contractor on the Big Dig pleaded guilty yesterday to 39 federal charges of overbilling and lying about construction defects on the project, but prosecutors dropped five other charges that had implicated the company in the fatal 2006 collapse of the ceiling of the Interstate 90 tunnel....
....No one is going to jail in the case, he added, because corporations cannot go to prison and are generally punished only with fines.
Modern Continental faces criminal fines of up to $500,000 on each of the 39 counts to which it pleaded guilty, totaling $19.5 million, when it is sentenced Aug. 11.
Company lawyers said it sought the shelter of US Bankruptcy Court last June, three days after federal prosecutors filed criminal charges, and will not be able to pay the fines. "We believe the government will recover nothing in regard to this conviction," Connolly said.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massach...ds_guilty/
The largest contractor on the Big Dig pleaded guilty yesterday to 39 federal charges of overbilling and lying about construction defects on the project, but prosecutors dropped five other charges that had implicated the company in the fatal 2006 collapse of the ceiling of the Interstate 90 tunnel....
....No one is going to jail in the case, he added, because corporations cannot go to prison and are generally punished only with fines.
Modern Continental faces criminal fines of up to $500,000 on each of the 39 counts to which it pleaded guilty, totaling $19.5 million, when it is sentenced Aug. 11.
Company lawyers said it sought the shelter of US Bankruptcy Court last June, three days after federal prosecutors filed criminal charges, and will not be able to pay the fines. "We believe the government will recover nothing in regard to this conviction," Connolly said.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massach...ds_guilty/
