Can’t say I’m surprised.. it is NYC after all.
NY construction firms with ties to organized crime?..
nooooo, why i have never heard of such a thing....
Imagine that. /sarcasm off/
In April 2006, Rojas' husband, Manuel Mier, signed an affidavit promising "for the remainder of my life" to stay out of his wife's trucking business - Leticia Inc.
That's because Mier is a felon who pleaded guilty to using Leticia Inc. and other companies in a wide-ranging tax fraud scheme. He was sentenced to a year in jail and owes $523,000 in back taxes and penalties.
In April 2006, Rojas signed an agreement with the city Business Integrity Commission promising to keep her husband out of the company. (Mier is allowed to work for Rojas' real estate company, MEM Realty LLC).
Rojas agreed to hire a special monitor picked by the city to ensure her husband doesn't get a dime. Because of the monitor, the Port Authority allowed her company to work at Ground Zero.
On Friday Rojas said, "Why do you care about this?" and hung up.
This is just the cost of doing business in NY.
Let’s see: New York City + construction = mob ties? Really???? Naw, say in aint so!!!
That equation is not a revelation, not news, not unique to the building being discussed.
It has been standard operating procedure in New York City since long before, and forever since I worked in one of the largest NYC construction firms, in the 1970s.
From everything I hear, nothing about the construction industry has changed (mobs have some piece of every major job). Rudy did not end it and no one else has either.
Part of it stems from the highly politicized nature of major construction projects in New York and the zoning approval process and all the other permits needed during the project.
Our firm used to spend tons of money in the budget of every project simply paying a “consulting firm” to keep the permit approval process flowing through the city bureaucracy fast enough not to delay construction.
In New York, in Construction, if you do not believe in the adage that the squeeky wheel gets the grease, then you won’t work in Construction for long; your projects will always be over budget and way past the deadlines needed for completion. Your clients will hire someone else next time and your investors will leave you. Next time they will get someone with “connections”. Someone who will not have permit delays or days when some particular union or trade just fails to show up.
Ya think? I get extorted out of $9.00 crossing over the Verrazano/Outer Bridge crossing in NY. Those corrupt Dem NY/NJ politicians SUCK and are good at it....they are skilled at Sucking your dollars out of your pockets into theirs. Piss on them ALL.
Mob ties in New York construction? Yea, right.
Like Chinese money in the Clintoon campaigns.
Next thing they will find out is that the politicians in NY are corrupt
LLS