WORK AT YANKEE STADIUM AND CITI FIELD DONE BY [allegedly] COSA NOSTRA-TIED FIRMS…

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from the NEW YORK TIMES:

April 11, 2009
Stadium Work Done by Firms New York Shuns

By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM

Millions of dollars worth of work associated with the new baseball stadiums for the Yankees and Mets was performed by companies that New York City avoids doing business with because of prior allegations of corruption and ties to organized crime.

The roughly $17 million demolition of Shea Stadium, which cleared the way for the new Citi Field in Queens, was largely done by Breeze National Inc., whose vice president, Toby Romano, was convicted on federal bribery charges in 1988 and whom law enforcement officials have identified as having ties to organized crime.

Much of the electrical work at the new Yankee Stadium was done by Petrocelli Electric, a company that since June 2006 has been on a list of contractors that New York City cautions its agencies against using.

The owner, Santo Petrocelli Sr., was indicted this month on charges that he had been bribing a leading union official for more than a decade.

In a third instance, the millions of dollars in excavation and cast-in-place concrete work at the new Yankee ballpark was performed by Interstate Industrial, a company that has been barred from doing city work since 2004.

City investigators concluded several years ago that Interstate had connections to organized crime. The company has been accused of paying for more than $150,000 in renovations in 1999 and 2000 on the apartment of former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to accepting the work.

FULL story at link.

But I don't really see problems with this.

Good place to hide a body.

stadiums??..LOL. Shouldn't laugh but I wouldn't put it past them. Hope Tony Soprano's business will be safe...

What is next gay male ice skaters, jewish accountants, or tall people in the NBA?

did they get the job done on time and in budget???????


BTW I have something even worse ..... a Vice President who started a war to make money and steal oil.

Oh, never mind.

Both of them.

Really, too funny. I'll bet there were a lot of busted guts in NY and Joisey this a.m..

:rofl: