Article Excerpt: McHugh Construction — a 115-year-old contracting giant with billions of dollars in government and private business — is at the heart of a federal investigation into minority- and women-owned business fraud on four of the biggest government construction projects in Chicago in recent years, a federal criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday revealed.

Elizabeth Perino, 57, of Willowbrook, is charged with mail fraud. She’s accused of acting as the owner of a “sham” woman-owned business that was hired as a subcontractor for McHugh on four major city contracts worth a total of $200 million: the overhauls of the CTA’s Red and Brown lines; the massive reconstruction downtown of Wacker Drive; and the rebuilding of the North Avenue bridge over the Chicago River.

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Article Source: Chicago Sun-Times