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CenturyLink, ENA file tort claims against the state, seek millions

The Idaho Education Network’s contractors have filed tort claims with the state, demanding millions in back payments on the voided broadband contract, Idaho Education News reports. Education Networks of America, the lead contractor on the beleaguered project, is seeking roughly $6 million, reports Idaho EdNews reporter Kevin Richert, “including ancillary damages, plus statutory interest, costs, expenses and reasonable attorneys’ fees.”

CenturyLink, a subcontractor to ENA, does not outline specific damages in its tort claim, Richert reports. But CenturyLink attorney Steven Perfrement said the company is owed “full payment for all services rendered,” plus 12 percent in annual interest. In the past, CenturyLin has said it is owed more than $1 million from ENA for service to schools, and the state has said it owes CenturyLink $540,000 for providing broadband to state agencies, an offshoot of the network project. Richert has a full report online here.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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