Multiple lawmakers have raised concerns about the New Jersey Turnpike Authority’s decision to award an 11-year E-ZPass contract to a Singaporean-owned company over its alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
“This is an issue that transcends politics, where we’re truly concerned for the deal and whether or not we can have safeguards to make sure that we were being properly protected,” state Sen. Joe Pennacchio, a Republican from Morris County, said in an interview with The Epoch Times on Feb. 22.
In September last year, the Turnpike Authority awarded Nashville-based TransCore to run the E-ZPass customer service operations for $1.73 billion, beating out Newark-based Conduent and its more competitive bid of $1.479 billion. TransCore’s parent company, Singapore Technologies Engineering (STE), is owned by Temasek Holdings, which is wholly owned by Singapore’s government….