News Now call the lawyers ones we know with a track record whatever it cost it costs to maybe recoup the cost of building a new bridge underscore maybe but this is what we really want to know who are they going after the it teams Brian Crandle has the new developments with a costly Bridge replacement project on the horizon the governor now looks to take potential legal action against anyone who may have made mistakes that caused the bridge failure any responsible parties will be held fully accou
ntable well Governor Dan ke's Day of Reckoning for those unnamed people waights he's hired lawyers to try to recoup money for the state they first have to determine who if anyone whether it's contractors or anyone at Rhode Island do may have been at fault in the years before the sudden closure of the West Brown Washington Bridge in December I think we have to start off with the presumption just the presumption that nobody's guilty of anything until there's some evidence of that now now on the su
rface it looks like this has been going on for a long time and it looks like maybe do has some responsibility but that's on the surface former AGR tutorial candidate Ken Block has posted a 2015 report to dot that he got a hold of that he calls a Smoking Gun it mentions a recommendation for truck restrictions on the bridge dot did not do that but instead continued monitoring of the bridge that memo came out before a major construction project started on the westbound span Do's response to us on t
hat was only that they're awaiting the results of that forensic analysis into what went wrong have you learned anything that leads you to believe that this people were aware that there was a problem before December I haven't but that's the reason that we have a legal team on to determine where accountability is now there's no time frame for the lawyers to take any potential action the state will reimburse them for expenses and they'll get a nearly 177% cut of whatever money they get back for the
state I'm Brian Crandle nbc1 news
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