Ground Zero mob tie?

[NorthernSun]

Firm banned by city & feds excavating for Freedom Tower

A contractor banned by the city and feds for longtime ties to the mob is blasting away bedrock at Ground Zero in the first step toward construction of the Freedom Tower, the Daily News has learned.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/428611p-361364c.html

[woodsprite]

1. Probably under special contract by Halliburton or the Feds. n/t

[MrPrax]

2. No problem here...

from the link:

"Perrone said Laquila was eligible for the Ground Zero job because the firm no longer has any connection to Dino Tomassetti Sr. and was now being run by son Dino Jr."

Well that covers it pretty well...no conflict here...everything A-OK...back to sleep.

[NYC]

4. Because Dino, Jr. has no connection to Dino, Sr., except for

being his son and namesake. Yes, I see the separation now.

Why is the name "Kerik" dancing in my head? I must do some research.

Edit: I'm looking around. Newsday had really good articles about Kerik. Meanwhile, I've found this:

http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&DocID=2099

That same day, the Daily News printed a messy litany of allegations. Kerik had been "deeply entangled with a New Jersey construction company long under fire for its alleged mob ties." In addition, Kerik "accepted thousands of dollars in cash and gifts without making proper public disclosures," including, for example, a $2,000 bejeweled police badge from Tiffany. Inquiring minds want to know - did Kerik pay income taxes on any freebies?

-------I'll be back when I find what I'm looking for.

Second edit:

Looks like the name was DiTomasso, not Tomasetti. My mistake. (Though there might well be a Kerik connection.) It isn't easy to search when all the Newsday links have expired.

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Bush's Giuliani-sidekick Kerik hit by links to Mafia, bribery, infidelity, arrest warrants
author: various

...story reported Friday evening just before Bernard Kerik withdrew his name as Bush's HLS nominee. Bernard Kerik has been hit by allegations about his connections to the Mafia, as the White House scrambles... --- The company, Interstate Industrial, hired Mr Kerik's close friend Lawrence Ray, the best man at Mr Kerik's wedding, to help with its licensing problems. --- Mr Ray said on Sunday that he gave Mr Kerik more than $US7000 in gifts while he was commissioner of corrections and later of the Police Department. The gifts were first reported in the New York Daily News. --- ...serving as New York City corrections commissioner, Mr Kerik spoke to the city's Trade Waste Commission ***on behalf of that close friend*** who paid him the money who was helping a company suspected of Mob connections try to get a licence from the city,... Mr Kerik and one of the owners of Interstate, Frank DiTommaso, acknowledge they were friends... --- ... in January New York City regulators recommended denying the licence, citing what they said were the company's known ties to organised crime known over many years. --- The paper also reported yesterday that Mr Kerik, who is married with two children, conducted two extramarital affairs simultaneously, using a secret Battery Park city apartment for his liaisons. --- Newsweek uncovered an arrest warrant issued for Kerik as recently as six years ago over disputes involving unpaid bills. 1998 warrant for Kerik's arrest issued as part of lawsuit relating to unpaid bills on his condominium in New Jersey.

[skids]

3. What I heard...

...is that the mob made a killing selling the scrap steel from the ground zero right afterwards.