Surprised that some big infrastructure company like Halli or Bechtel didn't see an opportunity to scheme some business from this.
Big Engineering like that might as well be politics. And this makes me think of the St. Francis Dam.
"It's Chinatown, Jake."
What movie are you talking about?
Would you prefer to be paved in gold or bombs?
Don't forget the fact that Feinstein's husband was head of a doc at Bechtel Corp and she was on the Military construction Appropriations committee, they funneled a lot of money through that incestuous relationship.
She left that committee in 2008, which was plenty of time for graft.