Sunday, May 8, 2011

They Knew the Mob Runs NYC Construction Industry All Along

They Knew the Mob Runs NYC Construction Industry All Along

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They Knew the Mob Runs NYC Construction Industry All Along
Just Read the NYS Organized Crime Taskforce 1988 Report or There is Gambling At Rick's Place? Why did the investigation begin only after in New Jersey, where agents were listening in on the phones of an alleged Luchese-run, Internet-based sports- gambling ring that authorities believe has netted $400 million for the crime family in the last two years. When information about New York-based mobsters and buildings inspectors started turning up on the New Jersey wiretaps, authorities there passed the information to New York, prosecutors said.
Inspector Clouseau 21 Years After the State Report on Organized Crime in Construction Today's Papers Mob sweep nets city inspectors (NYP) Mob Infiltration Is Seen in New York City Agency (NYT) *** 49 indicted for bribery, racketeering schemes on a crazy Lucchese mob day (NYDN) *** Owner of bakery talks of how he stood up to Gambinos


1988 Report: Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Crime Taskforce (Paperback) Corruption and Racketeering In The New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Task Force, lays out in close and compelling detail the intricate patterns of currupt activities and relationships that for the better part of a century have characterized business as usual in the construction industry in America's largest metropolis. The book is the end product of more than five years' worth of investigation, prosecutions, and research by the New York State Organized Crime Task Force, a unique agency that has set a national example for marrying law enforcement initiatives with comprehensive and exhausting analysis of the causes and dynamics of industrial racketeering. This is a sobering analysis of the construction industry , one of New York City's largest industries, and in effect, one of the city's most significant economic sectors. In any given year during the 1980s, billions of dollars of construction were being carried out at any one time. The industry regularly employs more than 100,000 people in the city, involving some one hundred union locals and many hundreds of general and specialty contractors as well as a large number of architects, engineers, and materials suppliers. The book shows—in great and provocative detail—how organized extortion, bribery illegal cartels, and bid rigging characterize construction in the city. The basis for much of this crim is labor racketeering, controlled or orchestrated by organized crime. It reveals how this world of corruption affects not only the private sector but the city's vast public works program, and it spells out the ways in which both organized crime and official corruption each sustain the dynamics of ongoing criminality. Wrong-doing on a massive scale is documented at length. But this book is more than a recitation of extensive and systematic criminality. The book recommends a number of plausible options for genuine reform. Necessarily these are profound and radical solutions, but everyone who reads this book will conclude that only profound and radical solutions could hope to solve such an entrenched and intractable crime problem

N.Y. Builders `Dependent' On Mafia The Mafia's grip on the city's $5 billion construction industry has turned it into a cesspool of bribery, extortion, false billings, tax fraud, no-show jobs, minority fronts, bid rigging, violence and sabotage, according to a state report released in 1988. The 130-page report by the state's Organized Crime Task Force says those in the industry have "become dependent on" corruption. It describes a system in which major developers "ignore" racketeering while reaping its benefits, contractors willingly pay off mob figures to preserve labor peace and unions make themselves easy targets for mob

More Clues Over the Years 20 IN BUILDING INDUSTRY HELD IN CORRUPTION CASE August 19, 1987*** Mob's Shadow Still Falls Across Building Projects *** Mob tied to big NYC construction jobs *** The persistence of organized crime in New York City construction: an economic perspective *** Crane collapses, corporate greed and the mob « Louis Proyect: The ... *** Cranes Today - Local 14 mob investigation ends in deal with Feds *** Friends of Ours: Mobbed-up Union Teaches Crane Safety Classes In NYC

 

 

Construction Mob Gets Around City Ban to Build With City Funds



Construction Mob Gets Around City Ban to Build With City Funds


It is an open secret that the mob prevented from working directly for the city works for agencies and projects run by development corporations funded by city and state funds. Use of Mob-Linked Firm Shows M.T.A. Problem Vetting Subcontractors (NYT) * In Deutsche bank blaze, DA to charge mob-tied subcontractor John Galt Corp. with manslaughter The bank is being taken down by city funded Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. * Yankees Use Firm With Alleged Mob Ties (The construction was back by city bonds)* Met 'mob' contracts Shady firms got $52M to build Citi Field UPDATE Sentencing of Concrete Testing Company Owner Is Postponed

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