California high-speed rail consultants billed taxpayers for late-night rides from CEO's home, receipts reveal

Well after dark one night last September, a highly paid consultant for the California High-Speed Rail Authority expensed a Lyft ride that pulled up outside the agency CEO's home in Folsom, California.Just before midnight, another highly paid consultant expensed a Lyft ride from the same house back to his Sacramento hotel.The first was Denver attorney Brent Butzin, who CBS California has independently confirmed is the legal-services consultant referenced in the High-Speed Rail inspector general's recent investigation. The second was Thierry Prate, a managing director at KPMG, the financial adviser examined in the same report.Both submitted the rides as expenses associated with California's multibillion-dollar high-speed rail project.And it wasn't the only late-night ride from the High-Speed Rail CEO's home.Why were taxpayers billed for late-night rides from the CEO's home?After California's independent High-Speed Rail inspector general found widespread failures in consultant travel over