For being as hands-off on state contracts as he says he was, former Administration Secretary Marc Marotta’s fingerprints are all over a $68.7 million building deal near the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Newly disclosed state records show that Marotta met with officials for J. P. Cullen & Sons in October 2003 to hear them gripe that a competitor should not have tentatively won the huge job of converting the Kenilworth Building near UWM into student housing, classrooms and retail stores.