by Wiseguy » Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:15 pm
TommyNoto wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 5:03 pmThere is just so much construction in the metro area and it’s hard to imagine Westside , Luchesse and Gambinos aren’t doing a serious amount of the construction business today. That would be a good question for Mikey Scars about the guesstimate of today’s construction rackets vs late 90s early 2000s.
The New York families are still very much involved in construction and connected industries like demolition, trucking, etc. That is the area where their presence remains more than any other. We've even seen some cases involving the Bonannos, though more on the company side rather than union.
The difference is simply the scope of control, which has been diminished. Concrete for instance, the LCN once controlled the suppliers, the unions, the companies involved in the "club," everything. It was a case of the entire industry being locked up from top to bottom. Obviously that's changed.
But they're still involved. For example, the concrete business was part of the 2008 Gambino case. And in 2011, after Ralph Scopo and the entire executive board were removed from their position and Local 6A (concrete workers) was put in trusteeship by LIUNA, it was reported in an FBI memo that a representative from the Gambino family had met with a Lucchese captain and soldiers to discuss the Gambino's desire to control the local.
[quote=TommyNoto post_id=100774 time=1549670611 user_id=5187]There is just so much construction in the metro area and it’s hard to imagine Westside , Luchesse and Gambinos aren’t doing a serious amount of the construction business today. That would be a good question for Mikey Scars about the guesstimate of today’s construction rackets vs late 90s early 2000s.
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The New York families are still very much involved in construction and connected industries like demolition, trucking, etc. That is the area where their presence remains more than any other. We've even seen some cases involving the Bonannos, though more on the company side rather than union.
The difference is simply the scope of control, which has been diminished. Concrete for instance, the LCN once controlled the suppliers, the unions, the companies involved in the "club," everything. It was a case of the entire industry being locked up from top to bottom. Obviously that's changed.
But they're still involved. For example, the concrete business was part of the 2008 Gambino case. And in 2011, after Ralph Scopo and the entire executive board were removed from their position and Local 6A (concrete workers) was put in trusteeship by LIUNA, it was reported in an FBI memo that a representative from the Gambino family had met with a Lucchese captain and soldiers to discuss the Gambino's desire to control the local.