Posted AT 1:01 AM EST on 14/10/06
Broken road had followed perilous path
It was October, 1969, when Inter State Paving Inc., a company founded six years earlier by Pietro Rizzuto, got the contract that would propel it to the top of Quebec's booming road-construction industry.
Until then, Mr. Rizzuto's company had received only minor government contracts. One of its first was awarded by Daniel Johnson's Union Nationale government in the fiscal year 1968-1969 for a job worth almost $135,000, according to public-accounts documents.
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