Whistle-Blower Suit Triggers Multiple Probes of Metro Work

摘要

A recently unsealed whistle-blower lawsuit has helped trigger new investigations of 1,569 architectural concrete panels installed at five stations on the $2.7-billion second phase of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project in northern Virginia. The transportation agencies involved called for additional tests to be performed after the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the Virginia attorney general's office joined the whistle-blower lawsuit. It alleges that the panel fabricator knowingly supplied deficient concrete to the project and falsified test results.