Monday, December 13, 2004

Bernard Kerik Sleeps With The Fishes

Bernard Kerik Sleeps With The Fishes

I thought the GoodFellas analogy yesterday was wild. Now we've got THE REAL THING. Bush nominee and Sammy The Bull Gravano in the same breath. Waaaaaay more interesting than an undocumented nanny.

When he headed the city's jails, Bernard Kerik became deeply entangled with a New Jersey construction company long under fire for its alleged mob ties...

Kerik's troubling connection to the company, Interstate Industrial, began in the fall of 1998, when the company held major city contracts, including one to cover the massive Fresh Kills landfill...

Charges that Interstate, based in Clifton, N.J., is controlled by organized crime resurfaced last month when a mob turncoat, Anthony Rotondo, testified in Manhattan Federal Courtthat Interstate paid protection money to the Gambino crime family.

The company first raised regulators' eyebrows when it bought a dirt transfer station from Edward Garafola, a notorious mobster and brother-in-law to mob turncoat Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, according to the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, which investigated the deal...


Aside that didn't fit elsewhere: they really do play hardball in the Ukraine, huh?

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