The situation is pretty well known and accepted around Southern California, and often talked about. No different from the frequent corruption within the LA County Commission. Everyone knows and talks about it, but it’s rarely in the news until the FBI shows up with a search warrant.

The proof is in the pudding - LAWA failed to supervise LINX properly, failed to hold them accountable, and were repeatedly run over by LINX incompetence and borderline criminal behavior making countless unapproved changes to the project on the fly and submitting billable change orders for unapproved changes with LAWA agreeing to pay a considerable amount of these change orders while still failing to supervise the project. A never ending cycle of multi year incompetence with each party trying to outdo the other with miscreant behavior.

I’m sure plenty more surprises await once real testing gets underway.