The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has quietly hired a private investigator from Western Pennsylvania to examine the turnpike’s purchasing and contract-compliance practices.
The turnpike authority hired Corporate Security and Investigations of Monaca, Pa., for $75,000 a year to provide “confidential investigative and audit services related to procurement, contract compliance and invoicing policies and practices as they apply to vendors providing supplies, services or construction.”
The turnpike and some of its employees have been under investigation by a state grand jury in Pittsburgh that is looking into possible corruption and fraud. That long-running probe has yet to produce much in the way of visible results.
