New York MTA Is Infiltrated By The Mob

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Transport Policy Listserv

18 September 2004 - 9:00am

The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority discovers that the Gambino Mafia group was involved in mismanagement of its new headquarters office building.

"According to the federal indictment revealed yesterday Contini has confessed to having done a string of building redevelopments in New York City and northern New Jersey on behalf of the Mafia since 1989, while purporting to work for the building owners... Originally quoted to cost $145m the 2 Broadway renovation cost the MTA over $450m under Contini. He lost his job with the MTA early 2002, when one of his many malfeasances was exposed by audit staff at the authority, and the larger criminal scheme began to emerge."

Full Story: NY MTA infiltrated by the Mob - lost tens of millions to organized crime

Source: Toll Road News, September 17, 2004