This deserves an audit, period. That said, there might

Posted on: February 20, 2017 at 09:41:45 CT

not be any legal wrongdoings. The grant benefits the state of California, not AECOM. They already won the bid. What sometimes does happen is masked collusion during construction with justifications for "extra costs." The State could willingly pay some of these false overages and the money could go straight to her pocket. This would be the State's doing because they authorize the payments, not technically AECOM's. If she went to work to the State, this would be much more difficult to cook because of internal audits. For a contract that size it'd be very easy to manipulate giving more money to the contractor.

I would hope for how much money is involved the Feds would be doing their own audits (usually it's left to the State) but I'm doubting it will.