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July 31st, 2008
Posted: 05:45 PM ET
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Officials in Minnesota said the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) did not check with them before hiring Sonia Pitt, a top Minnesota transportation official who was fired last year for unprofessional conduct following the collapse of the Interstate 35-West bridge. Pitt, 44, was fired last November in a swirl of controversy after Minneapolis media outlets disclosed she failed to return to Minnesota immediately after the tragedy, and instead finished a conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and made an unauthorized trip to Washington. State officials confirmed that, and said she also had misspent $26,000 in state money. In May, seven months after Pitt was fired from her $84,600-a-year job in Minnesota, the TSA hired her at $89,900 a year, TSA officials confirmed Thursday. TSA officials acknowledged the agency hired Pitt in May but said they could not say if Pitt disclosed her firing, nor could they discuss Pitt’s hiring process, because of employee privacy laws — and an on-going investigation, the nature of which they declined to disclose. |
 
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