Investigation of Ground Zero Fraud Allegations Is Sought

By PETER KIEFER, Staff Reporter of the Sun | July 15, 2008 The recent admission by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that it cannot present a timeline for the reconstruction of ground zero may prove that the agency's previous publicly announced schedules and budgets amounted to fraud, a letter seeking an investigation by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York states. "Billions of federal and state taxpayer dollars have been spent on hard and soft costs for the various Ground Zero projects with seemingly minimal progress in light of the public policy urgency of prompt completion," a former executive director of the Port Authority, George Marlin, said in a letter sent yesterday to the U.S. attorney for Southern District of New York, Michael Garcia, calling for an investigation to be opened into... [read full story]