Posted on 09/08/2009 8:13:32 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
AT LEAST six city building inspectors -- some with ties to a powerful crime family -- were videotaped taking bribes at construction sites, and some were seen dealing cocaine and prescription pills while on duty, The Post has learned. The corrupt Department of Buildings workers -- who lined their pockets by ignoring violations or expediting construction and building work permits -- will be arrested later this month, along with about two dozen Luchese crime-family captains, soldiers and associates, sources said.
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if anyone here is surprised by this, i have this bridge...
plata o plombo
Someone once said “I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em.”
If you don’t know, a Permit Expeditor sets up all your inspections and helps to procure the documents and get on schedules for hearings to obtain building permits.
There are “fees” for everything that you will indeed get a receipt for. But try to find a schedule that explains the fees or have the expeditor explain his fees or his take and your going to get nothing but exhausted. The permit expeditor pays all your fees for you after you pay him.
Same goes for Chicago. I am sure there are other areas too. I just wonder how this finally surfaced. The government doesn’t like competition, I suppose and did not enjoy playing the game.
I despise trade unions that protect criminals and bad workers .
But of course... Mayor Bloomberg himself is head of one of those organized criminal enterprises...
I trust your bridge was not inspected by these inspectors.
Dems as far as the eye can see involved in this one. Surprise, suprise.
.....................still?
Goes to show we needss anuder czar for da building code inspectors.
As an architect working in Chicago, expediters are basically worthless on smaller projects. They have some value on larger projects, especially when a design professional cannot be present for plan review. Many of the expediters know little of the local building code and seem to have difficulty articulating Building Dept. requests when follow-up meetings take place.
Next somebody is going to discover that building inspectors in San Francisco won’t approve projects until union labor is on the job. If you don’t use union labor, the inspectors will always find something that needs correcting.
In 1998, San Francisco had a building inspector that was in a wheel chair. He was a stickler about ADA code compliance. Our project was the structural upgrade, historic preservation and complete renovation and expansion of an existing multi-occupancy high rise building downtown. Needless to say, the inspector found issues during inspections.
On one occasion, an inspector “stopped by” our jobsite to tell us we needed to stop work in an area because he had not inspected it. It had already been inspected, the day before. He insisted he needed to inspect it. We asked him to go ahead and inspect it while he was there. “You'll have to call Scott to schedule that.” WHAT???!!!!
The guy stopped in, unannounced and uninvited to look at something he thought he should be the one to inspect. Then he would not inspect it while he was there. An inspection would have taken 5 minutes max and he had already looked at what he needed to see. We had to stop work and “call in an inspection.” The inspection fee was $275 and we had to have the check overnighted before they would inspect. The inspection happened the next day, took 5 minutes and we were allowed to continue construction in that area.
I can’t believe they are referring to the Democrats as “the mob” now!/s/
In a way, it’s heartening to reflect that even in New York, some things never change.
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