HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: In his 40 minutes on the witness stand, Carmen Marrone described a Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission that, at the very least, lacked any intellectual curiosity about how multi-million dollar contracts were awarded.
Successive witnesses on the second day of the preliminary hearing for six men accused of trading turnpike contracts for political donations did little to change that image…
Marrone told District Justice William Wenner that former Turnpike Chief Operating Officer George Hatalowich would tell him what firms to rank highly before each meeting… (more)