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If you want to know more about the mob angle, which is mostly getting overlooked in the Kerik memorials

Beyond the Disclosure About Kerik's Nanny, More Questions Were Lurking (NYTimes, 12/13/04) selected excerpts: While serving as New York City correction commissioner in the late 1990's, Bernard B. Kerik spoke to the city's Trade Waste Commission on behalf of a close friend who was helping a company suspected of mob connections try to get a license from the city, according to a former commission executive. The conversation was part of a web of relationships Mr. Kerik developed with officials of a New Jersey construction company long suspected by New York authorities of connections to organized crime. The company, Interstate Industrial Corporation, hired Mr. Kerik's close friend Lawrence Ray, the best man at Mr. Kerik's wedding, to help with its licensing problems. Mr. Ray said yesterday that he gave Mr. Kerik more than $7,000 in cash and other gifts while Mr. Kerik was commissioner of correction and the police.… Interstate also hired Mr. Kerik's brother, Donald Kerik, after the conversation with the Trade Waste Commission executive, Raymond V. Casey, then head of enforcement at the agency… Both Mr. Kerik and one of the owners of Interstate, Frank DiTommaso, acknowledge that they were friends, but said there was no effort to inappropriately influence the licensing process. Mr. DiTommaso said his company did not have ties to organized crime. But in January of this year, city regulators recommended denying the license, citing what they said were ties to organized crime over many years. … …Interstate paid more than $1 million in 1996 to buy a debris transfer station in Staten Island from a company controlled by a captain and a soldier in the Gambino crime family, and it then employed organized crime figures at the station and did business with trucking companies owned by crime figures. The memorandum, which recommended denying the company a transfer station license, said the owners of Interstate associated with crime figures…
may 30, 2025, 4:26 am • 2 1

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