Fumo

The Texas Turnpike Division of TxDOT has lost its longtime director of operations and information technology, David T Powell. He is now at Stantec - manager toll systems and operations. Powell continues to live and work out of Austin Texas.
226 words  read more »

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission chairman Mitchell Rubin is under pressure to resign - set to feature in US Court next month as a crony of the high profile defendant Vincent Fumo. Fumo a longtime state senator is about to go on trial accused by the feds of 139 counts of fraud, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and income tax evasion. 867 words  read more »

Pennsylvania's biggest problem in getting permission to toll I-80 may turn out not to be intricacies of federal highway law and regulations, but simply whether the Federal Government should turn over control of a major interstate to a bunch of crooks to make money out of. A local thinktank in the state capital Harrisburg, the Commonwealth Foundation puts this bluntly in a two-page letter from its president Matt Brouillette addressed to James Ray, Federal Highway Administrator. 560 words  read more »

You wouldn't read it in a work of fiction, it would be too far-fetched. Nothing however is too absurd in Pennsylvanian government, it seems.

Vincent Fumo the most notoriously corrupt politician in the state who shortly will be spending his days in US Court facing no less than 139 charges of public corruption is - he claims - sponsoring ethics reform at the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

We aren't making this up.

Here it is on his website:  read more »

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission CEO Joe Brimmeier and Vice Chairman Timothy Carson today told a state house appropriations committee hearing in Harrisburg that they are "very optimistic" and "we feel strongly" that the Federal Government will approve Turnpike plans to toll I-80.
237 words  read more »

Congressman John E Peterson (Repub PA) has asked US Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters to suspend consideration of granting a permit to The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) to toll I-80 pending investigation of possible links with the public corruption case being pursued by the FBI and the USDOJ against top Turnpike officials and their supporters in the state legislature. 865 words  read more »

State senator Vincent Fumo was quoted at the weekend as saying of the Pennsylvania Turnpike under the present arrangements: "(It) is what it is, and I think it works very well." (Harrisburg Patriot-News 2007-09-08)  read more »