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yeah dob is trash. but they do a lot more than safety.. permits all go through them as well. the architects/engineers need to get okays from dob on everything, and the cities dept of design and construction is another red tape bullshit waste of tax payer $$. they can hold up a job for anything. very similiar to when the mob ran the teamsters trucks on all sites. the ability to shut down the site is big leverage.
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Inside the NYC backroom poker dens spotlighted in Eric Ulrich probe
New York Post
By Michael Kaplan
November 9, 2022
After it was revealed last week that Eric Ulrich, now the former NYC Buildings Commissioner, was under investigation by NYC prosecutors over a gambling-related probe, a poker-world source had advice for The Post.
Speaking of the so-called backroom poker games in Ozone Park, Queens, where Ulrich is said to have possibly racked up debts with mob associates, the poker-world source said:
“Are you planning on playing there? My advice is, don’t. It’s not a good environment. You might find yourself dealing with nasty people, which is normal for a poker game — but in Ozone Park, the people might also be tough.”
It’s a warning that could have been job-saving for Ulrich, who resigned after the probe came to light.
These illicit back-room operations have little in common with public casinos such as Resorts World NYC, which aim to provide glamorous atmospheres. In the illegal joints, it’s only about gambling.
“These guys there, 99 percent of them are degenerates. They are not regular guys. They are there to make money,” Frank DiMatteo, publisher of Mob Candy magazine and a former member of the Gallo crime family, told The Post. “They are not coming to socialize and make friends.”
According to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa — who claims to be well versed in the Ozone Park underbelly — “games take place in the basements and side rooms [of neighborhood restaurants and cafes] or else in buildings nearby.”
Generally not fancy, the rooms are large enough to fit a couple of felt-topped poker tables, chairs and an area set up with drinks and food: “Cut hero sandwiches most of the time, but sometimes hot food as well,” said DiMatteo.
As per the poker-world insider, there are usually around 10 players per table and a manager keeping an eye on things, as well as a dealer, a waitress for food and drinks, and sometimes a for-hire massage girl who sells shoulder rubs to fatigued players.
“Games start at 8 p.m., go until the next morning and usually take place on weeknights,” a former poker-room manager told The Post. “On the weekends, guys go to Atlantic City or spend time with their families. The games move around. It’s not like the floating craps game in ‘Guys and Dolls,’ but you don’t want it to be in the same place for too long.”
As explained by DiMatteo: “You don’t want 12 guys leaving the same place at 7 a.m. every day. It becomes obvious, a nosy Rosy starts talking, and that draws heat. The cops are not stupid. They will bust a game.”
While it’s unclear exactly what Ulrich’s involvement was with illicit gambling enterprises, the New York Times reported that the Manhattan district attorney’s office is looking at gambling and mob doings at Aldo’s Pizza, located on 100th Avenue in Ozone Park. Ulrich is said to have spent in excess of $5,000 at the restaurant. He has not been charged with any crime.
Reached for comment about Aldo’s role in all of this, the restaurant’s owner Anthony Livreri told The Post, “That is totally out of line, sir.”
Added Ulrich’s attorney, Sam Braverman: “I appreciate the opportunity to comment. But I am not going to try this case in the press.”
As recently as 2014, Ulrich supported Michael Conigliaro, then a GOP candidate for state Senate. While on the City Council from 2009 to 2021, Ulrich helped move $44,000 in taxpayer funds to a Queens “crisis pregnancy center,” Bridge to Life — an organization for which Conigliaro sits on the board, per his website — according to the Daily News.
Conigliaro told the Daily News that he had been a member of La Nazionale Soccer Club, a non-profit whose tax filings reportedly describe it as promoting soccer to local kids. The United States Attorney’s Office maintains that the Bonanno crime family used the club (among others, including the Soccer Club in Valley Stream and Glendale Soccer Club) as “an illegal gambling parlor.”
According to the Daily Mail, prosecutors claimed that the Nazionale and other operations could generate more than $2,000 per day in profits.
Conigliaro had no connection to the recent indictment involving La Nazionale.
Ulrich has had public brushes with gambling, the mob and Aldo’s. In 2016, he revealed to NYC’s Conflicts of Interest Board that he had a successful run with gambling, winning between $5,000 and $47,999. In 2018, Ulrich wrote a letter of support for Bonanno crime family associate Robert Pisani, who pleaded guilty to running an “illegal gambling business,” per the Daily News..
As for the money spent at Aldo’s, Ulrich has attributed it to a fundraising event and “campaign food.”
Sources told The Post that Ozone Park games feature professional dealers divvying out cards and players buying in for chips.
“In case of a raid, chips on the table look better than cash,” said the poker-world source. “Plus they make for a livelier game. People are quicker to bet a $100 chip than a $100 bill.”
Stakes, said the source, “are nothing compared to what you find in Manhattan, though you can still lose $5,000 or more per night. And winning in these games is not easy. The guys running the game will take 5- to 10-percent out of each pot.”
In Las Vegas, a 10% rake is common, but it maxes out at $5 per hand. In Ozone Park, things are less regimented and less limiting in terms of how much the house can earn.
“Nothing is written in stone,” the poker-world source said. “Whatever they want to do, they do.”
And when the rake gets the better of a player, it is not a problem. “If a gambler blew all his money, we loaned him money, so he could keep playing,” said DiMatteo, recalling his bad old days with the Gallo crime family. “We got six or seven points on each loan” — which translates to six- or seven-percent interest each week until the debt is settled. “If he pays the vig [the interest], comes back the next week to borrow more money so he can try to win back what he lost, we loved it.”
Sliwa knows how lousy that can get. “A relative of mine, he kept borrowing money to gamble until the mob owned his fruit stand,” he said.
According to DiMatteo, that is just the way the operators like it. “You want somebody to win. But you want most guys to lose,” he told The Post. “You want them to keep coming back and to keep chasing their money.”
https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/inside-ba ... probe/amp/
New York Post
By Michael Kaplan
November 9, 2022
After it was revealed last week that Eric Ulrich, now the former NYC Buildings Commissioner, was under investigation by NYC prosecutors over a gambling-related probe, a poker-world source had advice for The Post.
Speaking of the so-called backroom poker games in Ozone Park, Queens, where Ulrich is said to have possibly racked up debts with mob associates, the poker-world source said:
“Are you planning on playing there? My advice is, don’t. It’s not a good environment. You might find yourself dealing with nasty people, which is normal for a poker game — but in Ozone Park, the people might also be tough.”
It’s a warning that could have been job-saving for Ulrich, who resigned after the probe came to light.
These illicit back-room operations have little in common with public casinos such as Resorts World NYC, which aim to provide glamorous atmospheres. In the illegal joints, it’s only about gambling.
“These guys there, 99 percent of them are degenerates. They are not regular guys. They are there to make money,” Frank DiMatteo, publisher of Mob Candy magazine and a former member of the Gallo crime family, told The Post. “They are not coming to socialize and make friends.”
According to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa — who claims to be well versed in the Ozone Park underbelly — “games take place in the basements and side rooms [of neighborhood restaurants and cafes] or else in buildings nearby.”
Generally not fancy, the rooms are large enough to fit a couple of felt-topped poker tables, chairs and an area set up with drinks and food: “Cut hero sandwiches most of the time, but sometimes hot food as well,” said DiMatteo.
As per the poker-world insider, there are usually around 10 players per table and a manager keeping an eye on things, as well as a dealer, a waitress for food and drinks, and sometimes a for-hire massage girl who sells shoulder rubs to fatigued players.
“Games start at 8 p.m., go until the next morning and usually take place on weeknights,” a former poker-room manager told The Post. “On the weekends, guys go to Atlantic City or spend time with their families. The games move around. It’s not like the floating craps game in ‘Guys and Dolls,’ but you don’t want it to be in the same place for too long.”
As explained by DiMatteo: “You don’t want 12 guys leaving the same place at 7 a.m. every day. It becomes obvious, a nosy Rosy starts talking, and that draws heat. The cops are not stupid. They will bust a game.”
While it’s unclear exactly what Ulrich’s involvement was with illicit gambling enterprises, the New York Times reported that the Manhattan district attorney’s office is looking at gambling and mob doings at Aldo’s Pizza, located on 100th Avenue in Ozone Park. Ulrich is said to have spent in excess of $5,000 at the restaurant. He has not been charged with any crime.
Reached for comment about Aldo’s role in all of this, the restaurant’s owner Anthony Livreri told The Post, “That is totally out of line, sir.”
Added Ulrich’s attorney, Sam Braverman: “I appreciate the opportunity to comment. But I am not going to try this case in the press.”
As recently as 2014, Ulrich supported Michael Conigliaro, then a GOP candidate for state Senate. While on the City Council from 2009 to 2021, Ulrich helped move $44,000 in taxpayer funds to a Queens “crisis pregnancy center,” Bridge to Life — an organization for which Conigliaro sits on the board, per his website — according to the Daily News.
Conigliaro told the Daily News that he had been a member of La Nazionale Soccer Club, a non-profit whose tax filings reportedly describe it as promoting soccer to local kids. The United States Attorney’s Office maintains that the Bonanno crime family used the club (among others, including the Soccer Club in Valley Stream and Glendale Soccer Club) as “an illegal gambling parlor.”
According to the Daily Mail, prosecutors claimed that the Nazionale and other operations could generate more than $2,000 per day in profits.
Conigliaro had no connection to the recent indictment involving La Nazionale.
Ulrich has had public brushes with gambling, the mob and Aldo’s. In 2016, he revealed to NYC’s Conflicts of Interest Board that he had a successful run with gambling, winning between $5,000 and $47,999. In 2018, Ulrich wrote a letter of support for Bonanno crime family associate Robert Pisani, who pleaded guilty to running an “illegal gambling business,” per the Daily News..
As for the money spent at Aldo’s, Ulrich has attributed it to a fundraising event and “campaign food.”
Sources told The Post that Ozone Park games feature professional dealers divvying out cards and players buying in for chips.
“In case of a raid, chips on the table look better than cash,” said the poker-world source. “Plus they make for a livelier game. People are quicker to bet a $100 chip than a $100 bill.”
Stakes, said the source, “are nothing compared to what you find in Manhattan, though you can still lose $5,000 or more per night. And winning in these games is not easy. The guys running the game will take 5- to 10-percent out of each pot.”
In Las Vegas, a 10% rake is common, but it maxes out at $5 per hand. In Ozone Park, things are less regimented and less limiting in terms of how much the house can earn.
“Nothing is written in stone,” the poker-world source said. “Whatever they want to do, they do.”
And when the rake gets the better of a player, it is not a problem. “If a gambler blew all his money, we loaned him money, so he could keep playing,” said DiMatteo, recalling his bad old days with the Gallo crime family. “We got six or seven points on each loan” — which translates to six- or seven-percent interest each week until the debt is settled. “If he pays the vig [the interest], comes back the next week to borrow more money so he can try to win back what he lost, we loved it.”
Sliwa knows how lousy that can get. “A relative of mine, he kept borrowing money to gamble until the mob owned his fruit stand,” he said.
According to DiMatteo, that is just the way the operators like it. “You want somebody to win. But you want most guys to lose,” he told The Post. “You want them to keep coming back and to keep chasing their money.”
https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/inside-ba ... probe/amp/
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In NJ they do a lot of the poker gambling pit of cigar lounges
Re: NYC Building Commish Tied to potential Mob Gambling Investigation
Really the NyPost asks this DiMatteo guy for comment...out of all the people....
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thxqueensnyer wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 1:17 pmi never liked it. even with old owners, new guys i couldnt say, i never went in since it changed hands,
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i have played in a few of these games. as far as being concerned for your safety that is the last thing you will ever have to worry about. when people are intimidated or hurt, robbed etc they do not go. the guys running these games do not allow nonsense, it hurts their pockets. but yeah a lot of players are degenerates looking to make money and most wont. you need to know someone or be invited anyway, the accountant from great neck cant just drive his altima to the parlor and ring the bell. lol. i just find the media these days to be utterly ridiculousWiseguy wrote: ↑Wed Nov 09, 2022 10:22 pm Inside the NYC backroom poker dens spotlighted in Eric Ulrich probe
New York Post
By Michael Kaplan
November 9, 2022
After it was revealed last week that Eric Ulrich, now the former NYC Buildings Commissioner, was under investigation by NYC prosecutors over a gambling-related probe, a poker-world source had advice for The Post.
Speaking of the so-called backroom poker games in Ozone Park, Queens, where Ulrich is said to have possibly racked up debts with mob associates, the poker-world source said:
“Are you planning on playing there? My advice is, don’t. It’s not a good environment. You might find yourself dealing with nasty people, which is normal for a poker game — but in Ozone Park, the people might also be tough.”
It’s a warning that could have been job-saving for Ulrich, who resigned after the probe came to light.
These illicit back-room operations have little in common with public casinos such as Resorts World NYC, which aim to provide glamorous atmospheres. In the illegal joints, it’s only about gambling.
“These guys there, 99 percent of them are degenerates. They are not regular guys. They are there to make money,” Frank DiMatteo, publisher of Mob Candy magazine and a former member of the Gallo crime family, told The Post. “They are not coming to socialize and make friends.”
According to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa — who claims to be well versed in the Ozone Park underbelly — “games take place in the basements and side rooms [of neighborhood restaurants and cafes] or else in buildings nearby.”
Generally not fancy, the rooms are large enough to fit a couple of felt-topped poker tables, chairs and an area set up with drinks and food: “Cut hero sandwiches most of the time, but sometimes hot food as well,” said DiMatteo.
As per the poker-world insider, there are usually around 10 players per table and a manager keeping an eye on things, as well as a dealer, a waitress for food and drinks, and sometimes a for-hire massage girl who sells shoulder rubs to fatigued players.
“Games start at 8 p.m., go until the next morning and usually take place on weeknights,” a former poker-room manager told The Post. “On the weekends, guys go to Atlantic City or spend time with their families. The games move around. It’s not like the floating craps game in ‘Guys and Dolls,’ but you don’t want it to be in the same place for too long.”
As explained by DiMatteo: “You don’t want 12 guys leaving the same place at 7 a.m. every day. It becomes obvious, a nosy Rosy starts talking, and that draws heat. The cops are not stupid. They will bust a game.”
While it’s unclear exactly what Ulrich’s involvement was with illicit gambling enterprises, the New York Times reported that the Manhattan district attorney’s office is looking at gambling and mob doings at Aldo’s Pizza, located on 100th Avenue in Ozone Park. Ulrich is said to have spent in excess of $5,000 at the restaurant. He has not been charged with any crime.
Reached for comment about Aldo’s role in all of this, the restaurant’s owner Anthony Livreri told The Post, “That is totally out of line, sir.”
Added Ulrich’s attorney, Sam Braverman: “I appreciate the opportunity to comment. But I am not going to try this case in the press.”
As recently as 2014, Ulrich supported Michael Conigliaro, then a GOP candidate for state Senate. While on the City Council from 2009 to 2021, Ulrich helped move $44,000 in taxpayer funds to a Queens “crisis pregnancy center,” Bridge to Life — an organization for which Conigliaro sits on the board, per his website — according to the Daily News.
Conigliaro told the Daily News that he had been a member of La Nazionale Soccer Club, a non-profit whose tax filings reportedly describe it as promoting soccer to local kids. The United States Attorney’s Office maintains that the Bonanno crime family used the club (among others, including the Soccer Club in Valley Stream and Glendale Soccer Club) as “an illegal gambling parlor.”
According to the Daily Mail, prosecutors claimed that the Nazionale and other operations could generate more than $2,000 per day in profits.
Conigliaro had no connection to the recent indictment involving La Nazionale.
Ulrich has had public brushes with gambling, the mob and Aldo’s. In 2016, he revealed to NYC’s Conflicts of Interest Board that he had a successful run with gambling, winning between $5,000 and $47,999. In 2018, Ulrich wrote a letter of support for Bonanno crime family associate Robert Pisani, who pleaded guilty to running an “illegal gambling business,” per the Daily News..
As for the money spent at Aldo’s, Ulrich has attributed it to a fundraising event and “campaign food.”
Sources told The Post that Ozone Park games feature professional dealers divvying out cards and players buying in for chips.
“In case of a raid, chips on the table look better than cash,” said the poker-world source. “Plus they make for a livelier game. People are quicker to bet a $100 chip than a $100 bill.”
Stakes, said the source, “are nothing compared to what you find in Manhattan, though you can still lose $5,000 or more per night. And winning in these games is not easy. The guys running the game will take 5- to 10-percent out of each pot.”
In Las Vegas, a 10% rake is common, but it maxes out at $5 per hand. In Ozone Park, things are less regimented and less limiting in terms of how much the house can earn.
“Nothing is written in stone,” the poker-world source said. “Whatever they want to do, they do.”
And when the rake gets the better of a player, it is not a problem. “If a gambler blew all his money, we loaned him money, so he could keep playing,” said DiMatteo, recalling his bad old days with the Gallo crime family. “We got six or seven points on each loan” — which translates to six- or seven-percent interest each week until the debt is settled. “If he pays the vig [the interest], comes back the next week to borrow more money so he can try to win back what he lost, we loved it.”
Sliwa knows how lousy that can get. “A relative of mine, he kept borrowing money to gamble until the mob owned his fruit stand,” he said.
According to DiMatteo, that is just the way the operators like it. “You want somebody to win. But you want most guys to lose,” he told The Post. “You want them to keep coming back and to keep chasing their money.”
https://nypost.com/2022/11/09/inside-ba ... probe/amp/
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Former N.Y.C. Buildings Chief Expected to Face Bribery-Related Charges
Eric Ulrich, who was the commissioner of New York City’s Buildings Department, resigned in November amid an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
William K. RashbaumJonah E. Bromwich
By William K. Rashbaum and Jonah E. Bromwich
July 17, 2023
Updated 1:56 p.m. ET
A criminal investigation into the former commissioner of New York City’s Buildings Department has reached its final stages and charges are expected as soon as this week, according to three people with knowledge of the inquiry.
The commissioner, Eric Ulrich, resigned in November shortly after investigators with the Manhattan district attorney’s office seized his cellphone and then interviewed him the next day. The inquiry continued after his resignation, with the prosecutors focusing on crimes related to bribery that occurred when Mr. Ulrich was still in office.
As part of the inquiry, prosecutors have examined whether he received an apartment rental at a below-market rate, the people with knowledge said, as well as a sofa that was given to him or provided at a discount by someone who had business before the department.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment. A lawyer for Mr. Ulrich, Samuel M. Braverman, said that until he knew what the indictment contained, he would not comment.
“Anything anyone says is just a guess, and probably without merit, so I will wait for the indictment,” said Mr. Braverman, who practices white-collar defense at the law firm Anderson Kill.
The progress of the investigation was first reported by The Daily News.
The investigation into Mr. Ulrich, 38, is the latest stain on a department that has long been plagued by corruption scandals. The agency inspects all buildings in New York City to ensure they are abiding by regulations and codes, and reviews and approves plans for new developments.
In the 1960s, Mayor John V. Lindsay’s Buildings Department commissioner was so frustrated by allegations of corruption and graft that he suggested its inspectors be given uniforms without pockets.
Mr. Ulrich was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in May 2022 to lead the department in spite of his acknowledged alcohol and gambling addictions and a letter he wrote four years earlier on behalf of a constituent with mob ties. Initially, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, were thought to be examining Mr. Ulrich’s potential ties to gambling and organized crime, and it is unclear when they began focusing on potential bribery.
When Mr. Ulrich resigned last year, the mayor declined to comment on the investigation.
Mr. Adams said he respected the decision and wished Mr. Ulrich and his family well but had no comment about the investigation, saying that he did not “take reports that are in the media as what actually took place.”
In a Facebook post in January, Mr. Ulrich announced that he had recently become a licensed insurance broker.
Susan C. Beachy contributed research.
A correction was made on July 17, 2023: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of a digital summary with this article misstated the date of the former Building Department commissioner’s resignation. As the article correctly noted, it was in November, not May.
When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at nytnews@nytimes.com.Learn more
William K. Rashbaum is a senior writer on the Metro desk, where he covers political and municipal corruption, courts, terrorism and law enforcement. He was a part of the team awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News. More about William K. Rashbaum
Jonah E. Bromwich covers criminal justice in New York, with a focus on the Manhattan district attorney's office, state criminal courts in Manhattan and New York City's jails. More about Jonah E. Bromwich
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The commissioner, Eric Ulrich, resigned in November shortly after investigators with the Manhattan district attorney’s office seized his cellphone and then interviewed him the next day. The inquiry continued after his resignation, with the prosecutors focusing on crimes related to bribery that occurred when Mr. Ulrich was still in office.
As part of the inquiry, prosecutors have examined whether he received an apartment rental at a below-market rate, the people with knowledge said, as well as a sofa that was given to him or provided at a discount by someone who had business before the department.
A spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office declined to comment. A lawyer for Mr. Ulrich, Samuel M. Braverman, said that until he knew what the indictment contained, he would not comment.
“Anything anyone says is just a guess, and probably without merit, so I will wait for the indictment,” said Mr. Braverman, who practices white-collar defense at the law firm Anderson Kill.
The progress of the investigation was first reported by The Daily News.
The investigation into Mr. Ulrich, 38, is the latest stain on a department that has long been plagued by corruption scandals. The agency inspects all buildings in New York City to ensure they are abiding by regulations and codes, and reviews and approves plans for new developments.
In the 1960s, Mayor John V. Lindsay’s Buildings Department commissioner was so frustrated by allegations of corruption and graft that he suggested its inspectors be given uniforms without pockets.
Mr. Ulrich was appointed by Mayor Eric Adams in May 2022 to lead the department in spite of his acknowledged alcohol and gambling addictions and a letter he wrote four years earlier on behalf of a constituent with mob ties. Initially, prosecutors working for the district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, were thought to be examining Mr. Ulrich’s potential ties to gambling and organized crime, and it is unclear when they began focusing on potential bribery.
When Mr. Ulrich resigned last year, the mayor declined to comment on the investigation.
Mr. Adams said he respected the decision and wished Mr. Ulrich and his family well but had no comment about the investigation, saying that he did not “take reports that are in the media as what actually took place.”
In a Facebook post in January, Mr. Ulrich announced that he had recently become a licensed insurance broker.
Susan C. Beachy contributed research.
A correction was made on July 17, 2023: Because of an editing error, an earlier version of a digital summary with this article misstated the date of the former Building Department commissioner’s resignation. As the article correctly noted, it was in November, not May.
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Indictment coming but he won't be alone some local HB guys also.
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I’m guessing it’s going to be the brothers running Aldo’s. Though I can’t imagine what they’d be bribing him for, kinda meh pizza spot not doing construction work. But the older reports said he was a mainstay at Aldo’s. Ronnie One Arms former hangout.