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Feds: Janitorial contractors cleaned up in city set-aside scam September 25, 2003 BY FRAN SPIELMAN, CITY HALL REPORTER The owners of a controversial maintenance company with political ties to Mayor Daley and reputed ties to organized crime were accused of racketeering, conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering today for their alleged participation in a $100 million scheme to fraudulently obtain government contracts earmarked for minorities and women. The federal indictment accuses James Duff, his mother, Patricia Green, their business associate William Stratton and four other people of using “fraud, deceit and deception” to obtain certification as minority- and women-owned businesses,...