Weeks Marine won a $5 million stimulus contract to dredge the Mississippi River Delta in Plaquemines Parish, La. The family-owned firm put 37 people to work from June to September. When the project ended, it reported all this for public view on the government’s stimulus Web site, Recovery.gov.
Yet Weeks Marine recently found itself on a government list of “two-time losers,” accused of flouting stimulus rules by failing to file two required reports telling taxpayers how it spent their money.
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Michael Grabell covers transportation for ProPublica. He was a reporter for The Dallas Morning News from 2003 until mid-2008, covering police, state and federal courts and aviation safety and security. His investigative work has included stories on the TSA, penny stocks, the Lance Armstrong doping allegations, chemicals stored near schools and neighborhoods, and a bus fire that killed 23 nursing home patients fleeing Hurricane Rita. He was a 2007 finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.