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Ah Spring...Brian Mullins throws out the first Jail project LawsuitSubmitted by WhitesCreek on April 27, 2008 - 8:09am.
It will be difficult for any of us to know where truth lies, but it would be fascinating to watch if only it weren't costing us a ton of tax money. I've heard one side of the story and would like to hear the other side before I come to any conclusions. Problem is now that lawyers are involved it may be impossible to figure anything out. Roane County News story will be out Monday but here's the teaser.
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How great it is that the people of Roane County can get real time events from these blogs, if they just take advantage of them , The story of the jail broke when someone sent out letters from Siteworx LLC a week or so before lawsuits were filed...more to come
From the RCN: "Mullins alleges the defendants conspired against his company for not agreeing to acknowledge fault over project delays.
“All defendants have met and entered into an agreement to impose liability on Siteworx, to withhold payment from Siteworx for work performed, to force Siteworx to release valid claims, and to destroy the reputation of Siteworx,” one of the allegations in the lawsuit reads. "
Sounds like a page from Rocky Houston's playbook, the one where everybody in the world is out to get him and nothing bad that happens to him is the result of his own choices.
Now in the most recent stories he plays tapes to everybody. Tapes he says is a site supervisor of some sort giving him verbal instructions to deviate from the specs for the geo-mat that was supposed to be laid down. Well guess what? It doesn't matter WHO said to do it verbally, or WHO accepted a verbal "instruction." The fact is that all the county's contracts on this project say that there are to be NO (ZERO) verbal change orders given and NO (ZERO) verbal change orders accepted by anybody working on the project. That being the case, accepting an order illegally given is as culpable as giving the order in the first place. The plea of "I was only following orders" didn't work at Nuremburg, and it shouldn't work here.
Sad story, Siteworx, but I ain't buyin!
RB