Moses inflated the tunnel’s true cost by $19 million in his public brochure
Evidence
Singstad had found that last statement interesting. No estimate he had ever prepared showed the cost of the tunnel to be
84,000,000. His estimate—an estimate he had given to Moses when Moses asked for it—showed the cost to be65,000,000. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 2788
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- XREF: connects to: A catastrophic landslide permanently stripped party bosses of their power to hand-pick candidates. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 1840