California high-speed rail chief quits amid billowing expenses scandal

Ian Choudri resigns after report found agency overseeing troubled LA-San Francisco project misused over $600,000 in public funds The chief executive of California’s embattled high-speed rail authority abruptly resigned on Wednesday, over a month after a state watchdog determined the agency had misused public funds. In September, California’s office of the inspector general released an investigative report finding that the rail authority had paid $543,000 in travel-related reimbursements for consultants that were not allowed, including international or…