Robert McDonnell’s other big scandal
Bob McDonnell will go into history as the first of 72 Virginia governors to be convicted of corruption, but we should remember him as well for a second scandal that cost the taxpayers a ton of money.
McDonnells curious, long-standing obsession with building a new highway parallel to U.S. 460 outside Hampton Roads led his administration to spend $300 million (and counting) without first ensuring that the project would receive necessary environmental permits.
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As a result, the state cant recoup the $300 million it has spent. That money is gone, wasted, without a spadeful of dirt being turned for a 55-mile highway so little needed that I previously dubbed it the Road for Nobody.
Whole WaPo article by Robert McCartney here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/robert-mcdonnells-other-big-scandal-bum-deal-on-us-460-project-cost-virginia-plenty/2014/10/11/ebf08fc6-50be-11e4-babe-e91da079cb8a_story.html
Wonder which RW cronies collected that $300 million. Any US attorneys on this case?