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originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: IAMTAT
i knew steve zakheim personally. he was a great guy and i still believe those accusations are false.
just my 2 cents
CIARDELLA, SAVINO, L.L.C.
originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: MotherMayEye
well gosh I'm glad I did his insurance and not his bookkeeping.
even so I remember him as a giving sweetheart,
Peter Savino, Mafia Associate Who Became an Informer, 55
Peter Savino, a longtime Mafia associate who became a major Government witness against his former confederates, including such top mobsters as the recently convicted Vincent Gigante, died on Sept. 30, Federal prosecutors said in a court document filed this week.
Mr. Savino's most important testimony, in the Gigante trial and in earlier trials, had to do with a lucrative, decade-long racket: Prosecutors said Mr. Gigante and the bosses of other Mafia groups led a scheme in which the mob skimmed millions of dollars in Government funds from window-installation contracts in New York City public housing.
Mr. Savino was a central figure in the bid-rigging scheme, in which, he testified, he represented Mr. Gigante's Genovese crime family.
Mr. Savino was born in Brooklyn on Sept. 6, 1942, and began working in the 1960's with members of Local 580 of the Architectural and Ornamental Ironworkers Union on construction and renovation jobs. Some of the local's officers would later be involved in the public housing windows scheme.
Mr. Savino and associates began operating their own window-installation businesses in the 1970's, when, he testified, he also began an on-and-off career as a mob informer for the F.B.I. and the police.
Nicola Gentile (June 12, 1885 – unknown), also known as Nick Gentile, was a Sicilian mafioso and an organized crime figure in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. He was also known for publishing his memoirs which, violating the mafiosi code known as omerta, revealed many details of the Sicilian and American underworld. Gentile was born in Siculiana, a small village on the south coast of Sicily in the province of Agrigento. He immigrated to the United States arriving in New York at age 18, in 1903. Gentile fled the country in 1937 while out on $15,000 bail after an arrest for heroin trafficking and returned to Sicily to become a boss in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra. In the US, he was known as "Nick" and in Sicily as "Zu Cola" (Uncle Cola).
I noticed there is a Texas version of Transcare and Metrocare, too....multi-state operation, possibly?
originally posted by: MotherMayEye
a reply to: queenofswords
Mafia, Intelligence & Espionage, illegal Political Campaign contributions, Government contract favors, Medicare fraud...and a curious association with a presidential candidate....
If this isn't the most tantalizing whiff of what really goes on, I don't know what is.
Any investigative journalist willing to look into this could win a Pulitizer. God knows, a federal RICO investigation isn't going to happen. Isolated settlements will bury the real truth. There's racketeering. And it points to something huge.
It seems that no one has been keeping tabs on the home healthcare fraud rampant in metro NY for a few years.
I noticed there is a Texas version of Transcare and Metrocare, too....multi-state operation, possibly?
originally posted by: queenofswords
Evidently, others thought as you do, too.www.vosizneias.com...
A bankruptcy judge handed Lynn Tilton and her Patriarch Partners LLC a minor legal victory Thursday, but the turnaround queen faces more formidable courtroom battles in New York and Delaware as she fends off questions about her handling of what was once a $2.5 billion empire of distressed-company investments.
Judge Stuart Bernstein of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan rejected a bid by investment funds to delve into the past financial affairs of TransCare Corp., a bankrupt ambulance operator that was once controlled by Ms. Tilton’s private equity company. Patriarch objected to the proposed investigation, calling it “improper and abusive.”
TransCare and several affiliates abruptly closed their operations in New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland in February and soon began liquidating in bankruptcy. The bankruptcy left local agencies like the New York City Fire Department picking up the slack to ensure ambulance service continued uninterrupted.
It is with great honor that I represent Patriarch Partners and its portfolio companies as its founder and Chief Executive Officer in our collective donation of $200,000.00 to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.