The culture of corruption expands:

Federal officials are probing scathing allegations that the Romney administration falsely claimed to conduct safety inspections in the Big Dig tunnel that collapsed and killed a woman in July.

The Securities and Exchange Commission is zeroing in on state financial documents from 2005 – cited in a new report by state Inspector General Gregory Sullivan – indicating that Gov. Mitt Romney was reviewing the safety of the Big Dig, when in fact the administration was only checking leaks in the Interstate 93 tunnel.

“Despite repeated assurances to bondholders, (MassHighway and Romney’s Executive Office of Transportation) . . . did not inspect the I-90 connector tunnel section where the July 10, 2006, collapse occurred,” Sullivan’s report states. “It is clear that casual disregard for the truth was grossly inappropriate.”

Remember – this is one of the darlings of the Republicans and now he is under federal investigation. They love to talk about Kennedy’s accident. At least that was “an accident”. If these allegations are true, then Romney needs to be charged in connection with the death of the lady who died in the collapse.

I realized how bad Romney was during Katrina last year when he told a news station that if that happened in his state he would have put anyone in those buses to drive people out of his towns. I can’t tell you how BAD of an idea that is (someone not use to driving a bus, driving one in a fiasco like a mass evacuation. If they wreck you now loose a major artery out of town, which will ultimately cost more lives). If that is his reckless approach to a disaster, his normal administrative techniques can not be much better. We are now seeing that.