EDITORIAL TUTOR TIME WELL-CONNECTED FIRM FLEECES PUBLIC, AGAIN.A Superior Court judge has ordered three public contractors to pay the Metropolitan Transportation Authority $446,600 for ripping off taxpayers. And it should surprise no one that two of those three companies have the words ``Tutor-Saliba'' in their titles. Tutor-Saliba Corp., Perini Corp. and Tutor-Saliba Perini AJB AJB America’s Job Bank AJB African Journal of Biotechnology AJB Amt für Jugend und Berufsberatung (German: office for youth and vocational guidance) AJB American Journal of Botany AJB Australian Journal of Botany , a company owned by the two, were found to have been in breach of contract and in violation for filing false claims. Apparently the firms charged the MTA (1) (Message Transfer Agent or Mail Transfer Agent) The store and forward part of a messaging system. See messaging system. (2) See M Technology Association. 1. (messaging) MTA - Message Transfer Agent. twice for installing handrails in the Wilshire-Normandie Metro Station For the band, see . A metro station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines they are multi-level. . This is nothing new for Tutor-Saliba. The contractor overbilled and did shoddy work on the Van Nuys FlyAway fly·a·way adj. 1. Made or worn loose or draped, as to allow or suggest fluttering in the wind: a flyaway coat; long, flyaway hair. 2. a. . Earlier this year, it agreed to a $19 million settlement in a case about overbilling for work at San Francisco International Airport “SFO” redirects here. For other uses, see SFO (disambiguation). For the television series, see . . Tutor-Saliba, by the way, just so happens to be highly connected in local government, and gives generously to local political campaigns. And it also just so happens to be the company that will build the Los Angeles Police Department's new headquarters, currently pegged at $396 million. Somehow, we expect that price will only continue to climb, and likely there will be questions about costs and quality. |
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