Facing growing public outrage following a 25 Investigates report, state transportation officials have broken their silence, granting an on-camera interview after initially providing only a written response.
The pivot came just 16 hours after a widely viewed expose detailed how top-earning MassDOT highway maintenance workers have been billing taxpayers for overtime hours that did not appear to add up.
“It’s outrageous,” MassDOT Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver told Investigative Reporter Ted Daniel. “These are tax dollars. This is public trust that we have with these guys,” he said…