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Post by Logan on May 3, 2017 20:39:54 GMT -6
Raids not Dannenbaums first time in spotlight (more about FBI raid)McALLEN — The engineering firm raided by FBI agents on Wednesday is no stranger to controversy — including at a local level. The company’s storied past with taxpayer-funded projects across the state began to resurface Wednesday as news about the federal investigation spread across Laredo, Houston, San Antonio and McAllen. News outlets across Texas scrambled to find a link between Houston-based Dannenbaum Engineering Corp. and the FBI searches throughout four of its eight offices in Texas. The information that flowed soon after paints a picture of a firm that consistently lands top-dollar projects paid for by taxpayers, including the construction of the Hidalgo County border wall-levee project about a decade ago and the firm’s selection to manage the construction of county roadway projects worth more than $500 million for the Hidalgo County Regional Mobility Authority, Monitor records show. Read more: www.themonitor.com/news/business/article_47cf7992-2bbe-11e7-9f01-b7cfdc58cc13.html
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