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Stephen Bechtel Jr , steward of his family s engineering firm, dies at 95

Stephen Bechtel Jr., steward of his family’s engineering firm, dies at 95 Emily Langer © Bechtel Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. led his family’s sprawling engineering and construction company for three decades. Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., who led his family’s engineering and construction firm for three decades, expanding an already sprawling operation into an international behemoth with projects including the Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France and Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia, died March 15 at his home in San Francisco. He was 95. Popular Searches Bechtel announced his death but did not cite a cause. Long based in San Francisco, the company officially moved its headquarters to Reston, Va., in 2018. At the time, The Washington Post reported that Bechtel was the eighth-largest recipient of federal contract funds, receiving $5.5 billion from the Defense Department, the Energy Department and other U.S. government agencies the previous year.

Stephen Bechtel Jr , 95, Dies; Led Family s Giant Engineering Firm

Stephen Bechtel Jr., 95, Dies; Led Family’s Giant Engineering Firm He modernized the Bechtel Group as it oversaw construction on scores of megaprojects, including the Bay Area transit system and Saudi Arabia’s Jubail Industrial City. Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. and a Boy Scout, Garvin Hoffman, held a time capsule at the 2013 national Boy Scout jamboree at the Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve in southern West Virginia. His foundation donated $50 million to create the reserve. Credit.Rick Barbero/The Register-Herald, via Associated Press March 15, 2021 Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., who took over his family’s global engineering and construction company, elevating its already formidable reputation and transforming what had been a hidebound, top-down hierarchy into a modern, if secretive, corporation, died on Monday at his home in San Francisco. He was 95.

Teapot Dome scandal had New Mexico roots

.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... Albert Fall, a former New Mexico state Senator who went on to become U.S. Secretary of Interior, played a central role in the Teapot Dome scandal a century ago. (Source: Library of Congress) Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal It has been 100 years since little-noticed, no-bid oil leases in Wyoming and California were engineered by then-Secretary of Interior and former New Mexico Senator Albert Bacon Fall, sending Fall to jail and rocking a presidency. The story reads like a film noir script: a cabal of wealthy oilmen hand-picking a presidential candidate, bribes, bags of cash, a murder-suicide, and a muckraking Albuquerque journalist, all amid the flow of Prohibition liquor and the whiff of Cuban cigars.

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