An interim audit report just released by U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General Calvin Scovel III reveals that members of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board of Directors helped themselves to lavish personal amenities, violated their own contracting policies and thumbed their noses at the public.
The scathing 16-page audit report validates the Federal Transit Administration’s previous misgivings over allowing unelected, unaccountable political appointees with no experience managing a mass transit project to take on the largest such project currently underway in the nation. It also highlights the enormous blunder made by former Gov. Tim Kaine, now a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Virginia, when he handed over the revenue-producing Dulles Toll Road, or DTR, to this board, which had been stacked with out-of-state members.
