1994 Drywall Corruption Report

[TSNYC]

*this was filed in federal court, I believe in connection with the federal monitoring of the carpenters union:


1994 Carpenter's Union Corruption Report:

re: Michael J. Crimi
Date: Jan. 31, 1994

The following information has been obtained from reliable sources in the metropolitan area drywall industry:

1) The GENOVESE, LUCHESE, GAMBINO, and COLOMBO families all share in the NY metropolitan drywall rackets. The dominant family, though is the GENOVESE family.

2) The GENOVESE family maintains its dominance through control of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters, NYC. Wires in the Li'l Rex case showed that the NYC District Council of Carpenters was "owned" by the the GENOVESE crime family and run for the family by the aging GENOVESE capo Peter DeFeo of Manhattan.

3) When the GENOVESE family suspected NYC District Council President Teddy Maritas of cooperating with the federal government, MARITAS, who lived with his family in Dix Hills, turned up permanently missing.

4) The association used by the GENOVESE family (along with the union) to control the drywall industry is the Association of Wall-Ceiling & Carpentry Industries of New York. This association is located at 76 North Broadway, Hicksville, NY. This is a large, multi-tenant office building.

5) The two Carpenter Union groups on Long Island that deal with the association are the Nassau County Joint Council of Carpenters and the Suffolk County Joint Council of Carpenters.

6) Other crime families also control drywall businesses on Long Island. The LUCHESE family is strong on Long Island. A key LUCHESE operator is JACK ITALIANO of Huntington and Shelter Island and his sons. One of his firms is TALON.

7) The executive director of the New York and Long Island Associations is GENOVESE family associate Michael J. Crimi, whose last known address was 156 Woodbury Rd., Happauge, NY. CRIMI, who was tried and acquitted of murder and loansharking in Queens County, in the 1970s is married to Nancy, a niece of the late GENOVESE family boss FRANK (FUNZIE) TIERI. CRIMI also bills himself as editor of the Association publication: Off the Wall.

8) The officers of the New York Association are as follows:

President: Gary Giamboli, A&M Drywall
Vice president: John DeLollis, Edgewood Interior
Treasurer: Tom Colasanto, Vergara-Nastasi Industries
Secretary: Orville Hawes, CBI Drywall Corp.
Executive director: Michael J. Crimi
Board Chairman: Lawrence J. Cooley
Director: Charles Valdini, Valdini Drywall
Director: Thomas Nastasi, Jr., Nastasi-White Inc.
Director: James Delio, Verdico Industries, Inc.
Director: Louis Moscatiello, Improved Drywall
Director: Arthur Godsell, Godsell Construction

9) Thomas Nastasi, a director of the Association, has been identified as the person carrying the GENOVESE family share of Long Island construction rackets payoffs from PETER VARIO to ANTHONY (FAT TONY) SALERNO, at the time, acting boss of the GENOVESE family. The Nastasi-White firm has a history of rackets associations. NASTASI was a co-chairman of the Suffolk Cooley's Anemia Foundation dinner in 1988 for Suffolk builder Al Barone. Tom Colasanto's firm, Vergara-Nastasi, has ties to Nastasi-White.

10) A member of the Barone dinner committee in 1988 was another director of the Association, Louis Moscatiello, Jr. of Improved Drywall. His father, believed to be Louis Moscatiello, Sr., is business manager of Local 530, and was a co-chairman of the dinner. Moscatiello is involved in the chain on a large piece of property on the south side of Middle Country Road, Nesconset, that passed through Michael LaBarbara to Frank Esposito et al.

11) CRIMI was also a member of the Barone dinner committee as was Guy Italiano (son of Jack), president of Costanza & Italiano Drywall & Plaster Corp. Officials of the Carpenters Union on the Barone dinner committee (demonstrating affinity between the committee and the Association) were ATTILIO BITONDO, business-representative of Local 257 (Manhattan, East Side); Peter L. Cavanaugh, secretary-treasurer and general agent of the Suffolk County District Council of Carpenters; Benny Schepis, business agent of Local 17 (Bronx); and Henry Walaski, business manager of Local 531.

The 1990 membership list and an associate membership list for the Association follows. The head of the Association is Michael Crimi, a GENOVESE family associate. Two of CRIMI's top criminal contacts in the GENOVESE family are acting boss BARNEY BELLOMO and RALPH COPPOLA, a family soldier. CRIMI's major function is to act as an insulator for management payoffs to mob unions and the mob itself. He does this in the guise of payments for labor relations advice.

Listed members:

A&M Wallboard, Inc.
2508 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Gary Giamboi

ABC Acoustical of Westchester
132 E. Prospect Ave., Mamoroneck, NY
Louis DeLallo

Alpha Drywall
250 W. 57th St., New York, NY
Ralph Whelan

Crown Partition
72 Delavan St., Brooklyn, NY
Nick Russo

Clay Drywall
333 Ten Eyck St., Brooklyn, NY
Joseph Mirer

Commercial Drywall
24 East Main St., Huntington, NY
Lawrence J. Cooley

Denart Construction
505 E. 75th St., New York, NY
Peter Cuttone

Donaldson Acoustics
640 Seaman Ave., Bethpage NY
James Donaldson

Improved Drywall Inc.
407 Palisades Ave., Cliffside Park, NJ
Robert Vergara

Nastasi-White Inc.
129-09 26th Ave., Flushing NY
Thomas Nastasi Jr.

General Building Products Corp.
503 Union Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Peter Muller

[Wiseguy]

Good find. Of course, a decade later Mosciatiello and 20 others were indicted for controlling the drywall industry.

[Philly d]

Good find. Of course, a decade later Mosciatiello and 20 others were indicted for controlling the drywall industry.

what happened to his son?

[gohnjotti]

Great find.