Criminality from the ground up on 9/11/2007

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2419.shtml


Let’s start at Ground Zero itself. New York Daily News staff writer Greg B. Smith reports “seven contractors cited for everything from mob ties to tax fraud to fatal accidents are getting a slice of the $16 billion reconstruction at Ground Zero . . .

“The problem firms are found every day working the bulldozers, cranes, jackhammers and pile drivers rebuilding the site of the World Trade Center . . . All of the companies work for the Port Authority, the Dormitory Authority or the Lower Manhattan Development Corp. on taxpayer-funded contracts worth millions of dollars.”

The list begins, as Smith points out, with John Galt Co., which turns out to be a shell company at the heart of the new investigations into the August 18 fire at the Deutsche Bank tower in which two firemen died.

John Galt, the company’s name, ironically taken from the hero in Ayn Rand’s tome to laissez faire capitalism, Atlas Shrugged, is certainly no hero, but tied to Safeway Environmental, a company with not only a terrible safety record but one barred from city work. It seems one of its directors is a reputed mob associate. This News’ story runs like a Sopranos episode. In fact, the News came up with six more companies, all with crooked storylines. You got a problem with that?

Then read the eye-opening facts of Quadrozzi Concrete’s ties to the Luchese crime family; PAL Environmental’s toxic disposal of waste; Leticia Inc.’s dirt hauling jailbird-for-fraud owner; Testa Corp.’s falling cranes; the Laquila Group Construction’s pay offs to mob-controlled unions, their hire by Larry Silverstein no less; plus Juda Construction’s organized crime connections.

-snip holding the following subjects:

The criminals inside the buildings
The criminals in the US government
Look beyond the criminals)

and the article ends with:

"Let the good and best among us put our shoulders to the wheel and right the direction of this world. We can do it. We must do it. The alternative is no alternative, either to history or evolution.
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we MUST

[TomInTib]

1. Great summary. Thanks for the post. nt