FIRM DENIES OVERBILLING.Byline: Greg Gittrich Staff Writer A Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. subcontractor denied Thursday that it overbilled the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. and vowed to open its financial books to the public and investigators. ``We can justify the work,'' said Michael Siegel, a senior project manager for BMP (1) (BitMaP) Also known as a "bump" file, it is the native, bitmapped graphics format in Windows. A BMP can be saved in several color options: 1-, 4-, 8- and 24-bit color provide 2, 16, 256 and 16,000,000 colors respectively. BMP files use the .BMP or . Group, a concrete subcontractor. Don Mullinax, director of the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) Internal Audit and Special Investigations Unit, included the BMP Group on a list of six subcontractors he believes overbilled the district for a total of nearly $2.1 million. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mullinax's three-month audit, BMP Group submitted $491,326 in unsubstantiated bills. Siegel said his company took all of its direction from the lead construction firm, Turner/Kajima, and submitted its billing requests to Turner/Kajima as per its contract. The BMP Group has not yet been paid for its final billing request. ``I'm speechless,'' Siegel said. ``We are referring the matter to our attorneys. The investigator's claims are absolutely false. . . . We were not privy to the numbers that are in question and we were never asked about the billings.'' Mullinax, a former investigator for the U.S. Senate, said he stands by his findings. |
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