New revealing and damaging evidence against Albany Politicians, the NY State DOT and Thruway Authority
For the past few months, Carl Paladino and I have been awaiting the response to our newest FOIL request. This FOIL was requested from the New York State Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, through the Federal Highway Fund.
Startling revelations are now beginning to come through and we hope to have the completed FOIL in the coming weeks. As of right now, this is what we know.
The New York State DOT applies, not only for reimbursement on the highway and bridge lane miles of the DOT Interstate Highway System, but also for the New York State Thruway System and bridges, including I-84 and I-287.
Last year NYS DOT received $1.4 Billion in Federal Highway reimbursement funds, and approximately $4oo Million should have been allocated to the NY State Thruway System.
So now we understand the DOT requests the money for all of the Thruway, Interstate roads and bridges. Yet none of that money is applied to the NY State Thruway System, operated and controlled by the Thruway Authority. They are Billing the Feds for the Thruway and not using the funds for the Thruway.
This is a fraud being perpetrated against the use of Federal Highway Funds. This is also misuse and misallocation of funds clearly directed toward the Thruway and the Grand Island Bridges.
We also have discovered that the two downstate highways I-84 and I-287, were sold by the NYS DOT to the NYS Thruway System for millions of dollars in bonds. NYSTA now must pay the debt service at $127 million per year.
Rus Thompson
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Rus, if you or I did something like this, we’d be in jail, no doubt.
I’ll make some more of this on RedState, it gets lots of national coverage.
Gordon
What we need is a federal investigation.
Thanks Gordon.
[…] not for the FOIL and postings on Rus Thompson on his blog, we would not know: Last year NYS DOT received $1.4 Billion in Federal Highway reimbursement funds, […]
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