Saturday, July 09, 2011

Perini Corporation

Susan Brannon
9 July 2011

 Please Note:  I understand that this is a complicated web, but I advise you to take some time and browse through the links and articles listed on the bottom of this post.  If you read the information, you will start to realize how this mess with our money spent on wars, are connected with oil, our government officials, and the contractors.

Perini Corp - Framingham, Mass
  • April 2011 - a federal jury in Brooklyn found Zohrab B. Marashlian, the former president of Perini Corp.’s Civil Division, an international construction services corporation, guilty of fraud and conspiracy to launder money while working on Ground Zero. The owner, tutor Perini paid Marashlian $14 million in salary while all this was going on.  Two days before Marashlian was to receive a multiyear prison sentence, he committed suicide. (WordPress)
  • Tutor Perini is Richard Blum, the husband of U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee – which oversees the U.S. Department of Defense  (See Washington Group Intl)
  • In 2004, Perini agreed to pay the federal government $998,500 to settle fraud claims in the construction of an embassy building in Venezuela (BBC)
  • The companies are embroiled in an 11 – year legal battle over $16 million in extra costs on a Los Angeles subway job.” “Perini sued for more than $170 million in cost overruns on three New York City projects during the 1990s before settling for about $22 million.”
  • highway construction site in Virginia, was Cherry Hill Construction that is owned by Tutor Perini and was inaugurated by Obama.(BBC)

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous6:25 PM

    Richard Blum hasn't been affiliated with the company in years.

    #factcheck

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