Word: contractors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jackson Construction, the contractor working on the site, which has served as a parking lot for the past year, is scheduled to complete it's foundation work by the winter. The hotel should be completed...
Jackson Construction, the contractor working on the site, which has served as a parking lot for the past year, is scheduled to complete it's foundation work by the winter. The hotel should be completed...
...racketeering because of their high labor costs. Payoffs to the Mob can assure businessmen of prompt deliveries, labor peace and the ability to use cheaper workers. Following indictments in June involving a painters' union, the Manhattan district attorney's office estimated that an average $15 million-a-year painting contractor saved $3.8 million in costs by paying gangsters. How? The payoff entitled the contractor to use low-wage painters without getting any flak from the mobbed-up union. But in the end, consumers often pay the price. Economists estimate that Cosa Nostra's penetration of industries in New York City...
...that Father Gigante's nonprofit group doled out tens of millions of dollars in government housing grants to Genovese-tied subcontractors. The priest claims he had nothing to do with the selection of these companies. "I purposely stayed out of it," he says. But the priest does commend one contractor, a Genovese captain who is now imprisoned: "If you would talk to work forces in the South Bronx, you would also get a lot of praise...
...what is to come without allowing the scene to become graphic; there is no nudity, but there is plenty of screaming and leering. When the deed is done, the audience lets out a barely audible sigh of relief. Or is it pleasure? For Ashok Rawat, 28, a building contractor, it is the latter. Says he: "Rape is enjoyable because in men's fantasies force is the only way to get women who are otherwise out of reach...