Marc Marotta was emphatic Wednesday, telling legislators poking in the Adelman Travel contract scandal that when he ran the Department of Administration, he never – ever – got involved in awarding contracts once the bidding process began.
But an irate vendor, using newly discovered e-mails, is arguing in an Ozaukee County lawsuit that the long arm of Marotta reached into the bidding process for a $55 million-plus building deal awarded by the state in 2004, kicking it to a competitor.