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But it was not because ADOT's contract manager -- the person charged with spending millions of dollars of taxpayer money -- saw anything wrong with what happened. According to the e-mails, it was because Maria Deeb-Roberge decided, on her own, that the whole thing smelled bad.

As her response to Deeb-Roberge's original e-mail makes clear, ADOT contract manager Carrie Satterlee thought that there was no problem if a firm trying to get state work wanted to hire someone on the selection panel.

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In fact, amazingly, Satterlee dismissed Deeb-Roberge's concerns.

"I see no reason to disqualify yourself from panel participation," she wrote. "It appears they are only interested in hiring you."