Company With Kerik Links Is Under Mob Investigation

[Robbien]

POSTED: 4:35 pm EST December 20, 2004

NEW YORK -- The New Jersey construction company with troubling links to former NYPD head Bernard Kerik is under criminal investigation for its alleged mob ties, NewsChannel 4's Jonathan Dienst reported.

Sources said that Interstate Industrial -- and its owners Frank and Peter DiTomasso -- are under federal investigation in connection with their alleged ties to the Gambino crime family. Interstate is the construction firm that has been at the center of the furor since Kerik's sudden withdrawal as Homeland Security nominee.

Recent testimony at the trial of reputed Gambino boss Peter Gotti suggested Interstate paid the mob protection money. Sources said at least three different mob turncoats have told investigators that Interstate funneled cash to John Gotti Jr.

The firm has had a troubled past with government regulators. Just this past January, New York City banned the company from sanitation contracts. The Business Integrity Commission said the company's ties to organized crime were so extensive that there could be no innocent explanation.

http://www.wnbc.com/news/4011656/detail.html

[annabanana]

1. dead horse........

now joining in with the Blakely trial as distraction feed.

[NYC]

4. I don't think so.

I think Kerik should reflect poorly on Alberto Gonzales. From there, to Bush's poor judgment. I see hope for this story, not just a distraction.

[lenidog]

2. Who would have thunk it

A NJ construction company with mob ties. I think its state law in NJ that you have to have mob ties to be in business. The idiot should have seen that coming from a mile away.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Must be a pack of lies; both of NY's US Senators said K was...

a great choice to be Homeland Security director and have still not retracted their superlatives ( not mention apologized for them).

Are they waiting for people to forget or waiting til K is linked to the Kennedy assassination and the Lindbergh kidnapping?