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A Handy Guide to the Big Dig Screw-Up

By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | July 27, 2006

MTA Big Dig Project Directors

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Michael P. Lewis (2002– ) former CA/T project-design director

J. Richard Capka (2000–2002) Corps of Engineers veteran

Patrick J. Moynihan (1998–2000) former secretary of transportation; Weld appointee

Peter M. Zuk (1991–1998) former deputy attorney general

MTA Big Dig Outside Counsel

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Gadsby Hannah; Peter M. Zuk, partner; former Big Dig project director

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Goulston & Storrs; James A. Aloisi Jr., attorney; former assistant AG; former assistant secretary for transportation; member of Artery Business Committee

B/PB Joint Venture

John MacDonald, chair

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Keith S. Sibley, CA/T program manager

C. Matthew Wiley, project director

William H. Edwards, budget director

Meg Shultz, director of human resources; daughter of former Bechtel chair and Reagan cabinet member George Shultz

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Richard F. O’Brien, Parsons Brinckerhoff vice-president; director of American Council of Engineering Companies of Massachusetts [money to legislature icon]

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Peter Berlandi, former chief State House strategist; Weld fundraiser

Lobbyists, lawyers, and public relations

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Donovan & Hatem, outside counsel; David J. Hatem, attorney

Massachusetts Bay Associates, lobbying; R. Emmet Hayes, founder, husband of former state treasurer Shannon O’Brien

Cheryl Cronin, lobbyist; worked for Jane Swift and Tom Finneran; also represented Christy Mihos

O’Neill & Associates, lobbying

Thomas P. O’Neill III, son of Tip O’Neill, former Speaker of the US House who brokered federal funding for the Big Dig

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Andrew Paven, senior vice-president; former Bechtel director of public relations

SECTION III — THE WORKERS
Design firms
For each of roughly 50 sections of the Big Dig, B/PB handed out several separate design contracts, setting up a web of firms with overlapping responsibility. They are represented politically by, among others, the Boston Society of Civil Engineers Section (BSCES), The Engineering Center (TEC), and the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Massachusetts — all three of which are led by powerful lobbyist Abbie R. Goodman.

GEI Consultants

Frank Leathers, president; chair of ACEC Big Dig Task Force

Rizzo Associates

William J. Rizzo, founder; TEC president

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Richard A. Moore, president; ACEC director

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Edward W. Ionata; former B/PB environmental manager for CA/T Project

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