He was tried and acquitted in 1987 on state fraud charges that accused him of stealing $7.4 million from a subway contract through a scheme involving a Genovese crime family associate and a minority-owned subcontractor.
But when Amey was unable to raise the £60 million ($95.6 million) needed to provide funds for the consortium that won the subway contract, it was forced to borrow money from the group's other two members, the Bechtel Group and Jarvis.
Heins died in 1907, and the trustees of St. John the Divine had become disenchanted with the medieval character of the 1891 design -- and also with Heins & LaFarge themselves, believing they had spent too much time on the subway contract.
Siemens has automated systems to help smooth traffic there and has just won a subway contract.
Beaudoin improved his chances by buying a license for a proven French mass transit car design and then bidding to supply the subway contract of Bombardier's home town.
Introduced in March, the Metro London tabloid is distributed each morning inside subway stations though a contract with the London Underground transit authority.
In "Rebuilding Bombay as Citizens Press By" (Tunnel Vision column, Dec. 19), Randy Kennedy says the Swedish company in charge of the construction in the Times Square subway station won the contract because of its "creative" solution to do the work during the day.
B1 Setbacks Plague Subway Order A $1.1 billion contract to build 660 subway cars, the largest such order in New York City's history, has run into problems, including damage to two car shells during a shipment from Brazil and a failure to order critical parts, according to Metropolitan Transportation Authority documents.
Since there is no upper limit of revenue gains in the contract, 4th subway faces critics of leaving too much profit to the private sector.
