O’Malley Addresses Critical Highway Audit

Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday his administration will move quickly to discipline personnel who commit serious ethical lapses in the state procurement process in the aftermath of a highly critical audit of the Maryland State Highway Administration.

O'Malley, who spoke to reporters about the audit after a Board of Public Works meeting, said the administration continues to work with auditors, and he pointed out that two employees cited in the audit no longer work for the state.

"A lot of these matters are still under review and fall short of what we would expect from people that work within this administration," O'Malley said. "There appears to have been certainly ethical lapses, and there seems to have been, how can I say it, there may well have been some corners cut in the procurement process that are unacceptable and that need to be addressed and that we need to tighten up."

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