Edward Marquette Arrested for Crane Accident
In a surprising turn of events, Edward Marquette was arrested in connection to the New York crane accident that killed seven people. Marquette falsely stated that he investigated the crane that ended up collapsing.
The arrest of the inspector, Edward Marquette, should be setting off alarms for Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his administration. Yet Patricia Lancaster, the city buildings commissioner, appears to be playing down the importance of an inspector who allegedly failed to review the site 11 days before the accident.
Lancaster believes that it simply isn’t likely that the crane failure was the fault of their inspector not inspecting the crane. It seems that her assessment is more blind damage control, which will hardly matter once the lawsuits start to come in.