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Testwell labs argues successfully that no law allowed the city to suspend its license merely on the grounds of an indictment. The lab is at the center of an investigation and arrests following the DA's probe of understrength cement poured at over 100 skyscrapers, Yankee Stadium, schools and....
the Freedom Tower. The story of the cement industry and the corruption that envelopes it like a cloud has been ongoing for quite some time. In architectureworld.tv's coverage we found a report by Laura Italiano that documented the first time that understrength cement had beeb poured at a major construction site. The pour occured at Ground Zero. America's most visible and important construction project. Discovered right away by a routine test, the weak cement was removed. Anonymous sources question if that was a test run. The cement company that provided the material was later named in the indictment and saavy insiders paint a scenario like this: Cement testing discovers cheaper cement being poured than was specified by the architects. The company supplying the cement then sets out to corrupt the testers, inspectors and labs, Subsequently, weak cement is poured at nearly every structure that has been built in NYC in the last few years. A crime which would not have been uncovered if the investigation hadn't probed deeply enough.

The complexities of the issues raised by so much inferior cement being poured have just begun to surface. Will the 1776 foot Freedom Tower, which already has a terrorists's bullseye painted on it ever be completed or inhabitable? Other than government employees forced by their employer to work the 97th floor, who would? Terrorist target #1. Weak foundation. Freedom Tower doomed? Follow the complete story including New York Times reports, the Post and other key sources.