The company that oversaw the construction of a minor league baseball park in Massachusetts has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to settle allegations that it failed to live up to its pledge of giving a certain portion of the work on the project to women- and minority-owned businesses, the state attorney general's office said.
But the company misrepresented the status of such businesses on the project, did little to encourage women- and minority-owned businesses, and did not track where the project's spending on such businesses stood in meeting its goal, the attorney general's office said. violated the state's False Claims Act and consumer protection laws, the office said.Sign up for NECN newsletters.