California high-speed rail consultants billed for late-night trips
What each leads with
CBS News ↗ — Leads with receipts showing rides “from CEO's home in Folsom” and poses repeated questions: “Why were taxpayers billed for late-night rides?” and “What state business justified trips… after midnight?”; Closes on CEO walking away without answering and authority’s general pledge to tighten oversight, while noting $15 billion spent with no track laid.CBS News — Leads with receipts showing rides “from CEO's home in Folsom” and poses repeated questions: “Why were taxpayers billed for late-night rides?” and “What state business justified trips… after midnight?”; Closes on CEO walking away without answering and authority’s general pledge to tighten oversight, while noting $15 billion spent with no track laid.
New York Post ↗ — Headline calls them “mystery late-night trips… on taxpayer’s dime” and stresses “bombshell” IG audit finding $592,900 in unallowable expenses including Tiki bars and escape rooms.; Highlights board members’ exasperation, rejected $94 pizza order, and project cost estimates reaching $231 billion.New York Post — Headline calls them “mystery late-night trips… on taxpayer’s dime” and stresses “bombshell” IG audit finding $592,900 in unallowable expenses including Tiki bars and escape rooms.; Highlights board members’ exasperation, rejected $94 pizza order, and project cost estimates reaching $231 billion.
California high-speed rail consultants billed taxpayers for late-night rides
CBS California Investigates obtained receipts behind the watchdog's findings of wasteful spending, revealing previously undisclosed connections to the high-speed rail CEO.
High speed rail consultants took mystery late-night trips from CEO’s home on taxpayer’s dime: report
California High Speed Rail bigwigs reportedly billed taxpayers for unexplained late-night trips to and from CEO Ian Choudri’s Folsom home, along with rides to local bars and restaurants — as reps face tough questions about nearly $600,000 in blown expenses revealed in a recent audit. Two rail consultants, Denver-based Nossaman LLP attorney Brent Butzin…