CARPENTERS (UBC)
New York Mob Moves in on WTC Massacre Site
N.Y.C. has reportedly appointed four independent monitors to make sure
that anyone affiliated with organized crime is kept off clean-up site of
the World Trade Ctr. massacre. The Manhattan Dist. Atty.'s Office is conducting
a grand jury probe into mob-connected truckers who allegedly stole tons
of scrap metal and sold it instead of bringing it to a landfill where it
was to be examined as evidence. Reportedly, at least five of the trucking
companies being used to haul wreckage from the site are flagged on a city
list of vendors involved in alleged corruption or with mob ties. City officials
are reportedly now examining subcontractors. One firm, Scalamandri Trucking,
is charge by federal investigators as being controlled by Steven
L. Crea, the alleged boss of the Luchese crime family.
Further, many of the workers at the site have been provided by the United Bhd. of Carpenters Local 608, which allegedly has long-standing ties to the Genovese crime family. Investigators are reportedly probing allegations that some workers at the site have been forced to pay kickbacks to mob-connected union bosses in order to keep working there. [ABC News 10/4/01]
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