Maritime Administration knocked

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA | July 2, 2003| | Copyright

The Patriot Ledger

Taxpayers lost nearly a half-billion dollars because of bad loans made by the federal agency that backed the failed effort to revive Quincy's Fore River shipyard.

A General Accounting Office report says the $55 million the U.S. Maritime Administration lost on the shipyard was the third largest default in the federal Title XI program since 1993.

The Quincy guarantee - originally rejected by the Maritime Administration - was rated the riskiest of five projects the GAO reviewed.

The report, commissioned by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is highly critical of the Maritime ...

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