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Five Lewis Library contractors plead guilty in bribery investigation
Published: Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
Five contractors who worked on the soon-to-be-opened Lewis Library have pleaded guilty to paying more than $100,000 in bribes to a construction manager to obtain construction contracts.
Four contracts were involved, valued between $660,000 and $1.9 million each, according to The Times of Trenton, ...(back to the article)
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skanska = criminals
This company seems to have a history of wrong doings,but they still pay of the right people off so they can continue to land large projects.I wonder how large Tom Crane's bank account is thru illegal bribes and kickbacks.
Im sure PU just buried this as would any other owner to protect themselves.
More to This, PU is a private institution building a project funded by private donations, there is no requirement that it be publicly bid.
Get used to this,Skanska is LOADED with corrupt construction managers talking money.
This will explode in their face eventually.I'm sure that tom crane guy and his staff are well aware of corruption in their ranks....BOOM
Corruption in the Dirty Jerz? Who woulda thought? Also, my security word is "cheap"- the irony is killing me.
interesting, but if there was speculations like that couldn't be printed because of libel.
I wonder if there's more to this than just the one guy from the construction company. Why did Princeton hire skanska? Why didn't they fire them earlier? Most importantly, was there open bidding for the contract? Something tells me not. ---Probably all things that princeton's tight-lipped media spinning operation in the office of communications will never let leak out.
But one may still wonder.
Hey, hey! It looks rad, is a great complement to the utilitarian Fine Hall, and will keep Princeton looking fresh and with-it for years to come. Someday everyone will realize it was a mistake, but that day is decades away! Until then, think of it as the modernism entry in campus' catalogue of architectural eras.
i definitely agree...for $50mil i'm sure he could've paid for something that would have helped the science community a lot more than an out-of-place building with an out-of-date method for scientific information access. its the 21st century, and for a fraction of the cost he could've paid for a state-of-the-art server to host the information, and used the other $49mil to expand research and technology across the sciences.
Indeed, while Gehry('s firm) has designed some magical buildings, this one fits so poorly and haphazardly into Princeton's landscape. It looks heavy and tired, and suggests that somebody was too enamored with architectural celebrity rather than integrity. OK, enough ranting.