PROVIDENCE – A former Superintendent of the 6/10 Interchange Construction Project, who falsely represented the origin and environmental quality of railroad ballast (loose stone) and the origin of soil imported into the 6/10 Project, today pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts of making a false statement in connection with a federally funded highway project, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
Dennis Ferreira, a former employee of Barletta Heavy Division, Inc., a Massachusetts construction company responsible for the construction of the Route 6/10 Interchange Project, admitted to a federal judge that, in July 2020, he falsely reported to the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) the origin of 93 truckloads of railroad ballast imported to the 6/10 Project from Massachusetts; 52 truckloads of dirt imported to the 6/10 Project from the Barletta Pawtucket/Central Falls Rail Station Project; and that he was responsible for a report submitted to RIDOT by Barletta stating that the stone imported from Massachusetts had been tested and met environmental criteria as required in a Soil and Materials Management Plan (SMMP) prepared by RIDOT. In fact, the stone had not been tested and did not meet the environmental criteria.
In October, United States Attorney Cunha announced the resolution of federal criminal and civil investigations into Barletta and Ferreira. The resolutions included Ferreira’s agreement to plead guilty; a civil resolution that...
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