Editor’s note: This article is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 can be found at http://goo.gl/ibTCE.
Criminal prosecutions took to the superhighway during the 1980s with road construction bid-rigging indictments. Road contractors nationwide had been regularly rigging bids to state highway departments. The schemes were similar: Contractors met in state capitals such as Harrisburg the night before bids were due; agreements were reached on who the winning bidder would be, what the losing bidders would submit, and what the losers would get in return usually the “right” to rig future jobs.
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