Acting as Faithful Agents or Trustees

摘要

Situation: aseries of newspaper articles is forwarded to ASCE's Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC) detailing charges of fraudulent activity by a Pennsylvania architecture and engineering firm in connection with a multimillion-dollar public works project. Among the individuals named in the articles are four ASCE members. Two of them are project engineers, one is a senior vice president, and the other is the firm's chief executive. Testifying for the state in a criminal trial against the senior vice president, the two project engineers describe their involvement in a scheme to overcharge a county municipal authority by billing the authority for staff hours that were not actually related to the project.