[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "US sues Tetra Tech over Hunters Point [CA] shipyard work, claiming widespread fraud"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

US sues Tetra Tech over Hunters Point shipyard work, claiming widespread fraud

by Jason Fagone and Cynthia Dizzies 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
January 15, 2019 

Top managers of the environmental engineering firm Tetra Tech directed their employees to commit widespread fraud in the cleanup of America’s largest Superfund waste site, according to new legal complaints by the U.S. Department of Justice.

The allegations were filed Monday against Tetra Tech EC, a wholly owned subsidiary of parent company Tetra Tech Inc., the $3 billion government contracting giant. The complaints contradict Tetra Tech’s repeated claims that the company has done nothing wrong and that all problems with its cleanup work at San Francisco’s mothballed naval shipyard were caused by a few rogue employees.

“Tetra Tech’s fraud was initiated and directed by Tetra Tech’s corporate managers,” the government maintains in federal court documents.

In response, company spokesman Sam Singer again said that any misconduct was isolated and that the company stands by its work.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/U-S-sues-Tetra-Tech-over-Hunters-Point-shipyard-13536013.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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