Citifield Mob ties? Mets gives Taxpayer money to contractors with ties to the mob labor corruption and->?
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Bribery. Your thoughts on this? Here is the story-> Met 'mob' contracts The Mets shelled out $51.6 million in taxpayer money to contractors shunned by the city for their ties to the Mafia, labor corruption or bribery, The Post has learned. At least seven contractors the city avoids were hired by the team to build Citi Field between 2006 and 2009, according to government records. The tainted companies were paid from a $91 million pot the city Economic Development Corp. gave to the Mets. Among the contractors was Ruttura & Sons, a Long Island firm that received $23 million for concrete and excavation work. Its vice president, Peter Ruttura, was convicted of fraud in 2004 for paying off business agents and labor officials in mobbed-up unions, according to court records After the conviction, the company was banned from doing business with the EDC and the city School Construction Authority. It was also placed on the city's "caution list," which warns city agencies of contract bidders' past problems, according to city records. As part of its agreement with the EDC, the Mets had to submit records detailing how it spent the $91 million and to whom it was paid. Those records show at least six other Citi Field contractors on the caution list. Queens-based S.N. Tannor Inc. was paid $3.5 million for electrical work despite owner Evan Tannor's 2007 felony conviction for giving $350,000 in kickbacks to disgraced labor boss and ex-state Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin, according to court records. Another Queens firm, Eagle One Roofing, was paid $7 million. Its principal, Damian Sabatino, was convicted of fraud in 2001 for bribing a labor official, money laundering, falsifying business records and prevailing-wage violations. Sabatino also pleaded guilty to income-tax evasion in 1996. Other shady Citi Field contractors included: * L & L Painting Co., which the FBI is currently investigating over an MTA contract, according to records. It has been suspended from doing business with the school authority. It was paid $5.6 million for stadium work. * The Landtek Group, an athletic-field contractor that in the last four years has been probed by the city comptroller's office and the New York and New Jersey labor departments. It landed $2.4 million. * Danco Electrical, which was busted for submitting fraudulent information to the school authority and banned from doing business with that agency until 2010. It earned $4 million. * Breeze National, a demolition company whose principal was convicted of federal bribery charges in 1988 and reportedly has ties to the mob. It was paid $5.5 million. The EDC said its standard practice is not to vet past first-tier subcontractors. The Mets said in a statement that subcontractors were hired on the recommendation of Hunt-Bovis. "The selections were based on the capability and resources of the contractors and their ability to complete the work on schedule and on budget. Citi Field was built on time, on budget and without incident or injury," the team said.
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All this and they couldn't get the Mets a winning season...ok, that's lame, I know. I don't know all the intricacies of the Mob and New York, I'm really uneducated on these things tucked in Wisconsin. I would just say that if it is true it isn't good. And the fact that people are saying all New York hires the Mob to get things done so it doesn't matter is the same type of thing you hear from people who carry guns "Everyone does, so I'm going to" cheat on their spouses "I'm not the only one who does" and basically hides behind the statements "If everyone else does it, I'm going to too" no matter how corrupt or immoral it is.
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Construction companies in New York City might have mob ties. Let me sit down while the shock wave passes. That stadium that your Giants played in for the last 30 years, who do you think built it? And there were no mob connected construction companies on the Yankee Stadium project? Right. Scooter, three people have fingered the mob and lived, Joe Valacchi, Sammy the Bull Gravano and now Scooter the Squirrel. Watch out or the feds will put you in witness protection on one of the Fenway Park foul poles.
mattapan26
That is interesting. I think it's also interesting that while the person who posted this question simply outlined the story, which clearly has an impact on baseball, it's fans, and taxpayers, other people responded with half-witted justifications such as; it's ok because other teams did it.
Phillies: 2010 Champs
Cool story bro. No one cares. I mean at least our stadium wasn't built on steroids like the new Yankee stadium is. =)
Go Mets!/Knicks!/Giants!
That is interesting..Thanks for the read, Scoot! Have a good night!
Rangers♥ Young has the record :)
This is really no surprise. The Mets or any other landlord doesn't do the construction, they have a GC (General Contractor) who assigns all contracts to other companies, it was this guy, the GC, who handed the $$$ to the company's that "may have" mob ties. This is just another media member firing away at the Mets; they ought to do something constructive, like get Minaya axed.
Bert Weidemeier
To tell you the truth, I don't believe anything that the Post writes no matter what it is. Just because they wrote this doesn't mean its true. I don't know how to react to this cause I need some other source to tell me this.
Just ˡⁿ ʟʌ ʟʌ ʟ@ŋD
Thats is very interesting. It kind of gets you thinking..
aklatnihS
a a person that has lived in NY his entire life let me point out that there is no way that you can do any construction in NYC without giving money to the mob
oldballzack989
Figures this was in the Post- when will you realize that The Post is nothing more than the National Enquirer? Don't take anything that you read in The Post too seriously.
Rich F
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