Rick Scott's defense of high-speed rail rejection was based on a LIE

[Hugabear]

My apologies if this has already been posted.

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2011/04/rick_scott_high_speed_rail_charles_trippe_false_numbers.php

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Incredible news came out of Tallahassee last week: Rick Scott's general counsel admitted that he had misled the Florida Supreme Court about the amount of money that had already been spent on the proposed high-speed rail corridor, making the remaining funds seem much lower than they were, so that Scott's rejection of the plan would not appear so drastic.

Scott's counsel, Charles Trippe, revealed in a two-page letter to Chief Justice Charles Canady on Thursday that he falsely told the court that $110 million of a proposed $130 million in state funding for the project (spending that would complement federal funds and had been approved in 2009) had already been spent. The real amount spent? $31 million.

The court had been looking at a lawsuit from
two senators who said Scott exceeded his constitutional authority when he blocked the rail project last month.

Given Trippe's false numbers, the court acknowledged that there was "very limited to no factual record" to verify them. Still, they were convincing enough.
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Imagine that. A criminal whose company defrauded the federal government LYING to his state's Supreme Court in order to bolster his decision to reject billions of dollars for high-speed rail? The same high-speed rail that Rick Scott derisively referred to as "Obamarail"?

[aquart]

1. I also imagine he won't be disbarred, arrested, tried, jailed?

[BzaDem]

2. K&R.