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Randall Roth’s commentary about favors and corruption, getting by with a wink and a nod while accountable parties are advised to look away, is nothing new (“‘Going along to get along’ leads to government corruption,” Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, June 29).
Large infrastructure projects in part or in full under the federal tap cause hand-rubbing and drooling for those who are capable of playing the game. The numbers are big, really big.
The rail project has been subject to in-house periodic audits on the yet-unfinished system.
There is much left to do. It seems to me, as well as to many other curious taxpayers, that paying a national disinterested accounting firm to conduct a forensic accounting to uncover “mistakes” would be money well spent.
Chris DiSante
St. Louis Heights
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