BY Brian Kates
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Prosecutors ended their case Tuesday in the perjury trial of the Genovese crime family's reputed go-to guy in city construction unions.
A parade of mobsters, crooked contractors and corrupt union officials told of cocaine-fueled sitdowns with the boss of the city carpenters union, payoffs in bars and a clandestine meeting in a graveyard as the FBI closed in.
Reputed Genovese soldier Joseph Olivieri, ex-head of the Wall-Ceiling Association of drywall contractors, is the last of nine to face judgment in a Manhattan Federal Court case that saw District Council of Carpenters boss Michael Forde and seven cohorts plead guilty to a federal racketeering indictment.
Olivieri, who also was a trustee of the carpenters union benefit funds, is charged with lying when he testified he had no relationship with Genovese capo Louis Moscatiello and James Murray, owner of On Par Contracting.
In the week-long trial, Joseph Rizzuto, former boss of Operating Engineers Local 14, testified that Olivieri carried Moscatiello's orders to union brass, and FBI agents told of watching the two in sitdowns.
John Greaney, Forde's No. 2, put Olivieri and Murray at the center of a decade-long scheme making bribery the business model for building in New York.
Greaney, who pleaded guilty in July, testified in blue prison garb. "Mike was a user of marijuana and cocaine," Greaney said of Forde.
Greaney said he and Forde were taking bribes to let contractors like Murray use low-paid, nonunion workers on union construction jobs.
Murray returned last year from two years in Ireland, where he went to dodge prosecution, pleaded guilty and testified that he befriended Olivieri, giving his company $1.25 million in excavation contracts and lending him money to buy houses.
Olivieri later introduced Murray to Larry Cooley, Suffolk County's deputy labor commissioner, who testified that he made Murray a secret partner in his company, Commercial Drywall. Cooley testified that after investigators quizzed him about the scam, he alerted Olivieri and took Murray on a wild ride to a Long Island cemetery to warn him.
Olivieri's lawyer, Brian Gardner, is expected to mount his defense today.
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Prosecutors ended their case Tuesday in the perjury trial of the Genovese crime family's reputed go-to guy in city construction unions.
A parade of mobsters, crooked contractors and corrupt union officials told of cocaine-fueled sitdowns with the boss of the city carpenters union, payoffs in bars and a clandestine meeting in a graveyard as the FBI closed in.
Reputed Genovese soldier Joseph Olivieri, ex-head of the Wall-Ceiling Association of drywall contractors, is the last of nine to face judgment in a Manhattan Federal Court case that saw District Council of Carpenters boss Michael Forde and seven cohorts plead guilty to a federal racketeering indictment.
Olivieri, who also was a trustee of the carpenters union benefit funds, is charged with lying when he testified he had no relationship with Genovese capo Louis Moscatiello and James Murray, owner of On Par Contracting.
In the week-long trial, Joseph Rizzuto, former boss of Operating Engineers Local 14, testified that Olivieri carried Moscatiello's orders to union brass, and FBI agents told of watching the two in sitdowns.
John Greaney, Forde's No. 2, put Olivieri and Murray at the center of a decade-long scheme making bribery the business model for building in New York.
Greaney, who pleaded guilty in July, testified in blue prison garb. "Mike was a user of marijuana and cocaine," Greaney said of Forde.
Greaney said he and Forde were taking bribes to let contractors like Murray use low-paid, nonunion workers on union construction jobs.
Murray returned last year from two years in Ireland, where he went to dodge prosecution, pleaded guilty and testified that he befriended Olivieri, giving his company $1.25 million in excavation contracts and lending him money to buy houses.
Olivieri later introduced Murray to Larry Cooley, Suffolk County's deputy labor commissioner, who testified that he made Murray a secret partner in his company, Commercial Drywall. Cooley testified that after investigators quizzed him about the scam, he alerted Olivieri and took Murray on a wild ride to a Long Island cemetery to warn him.
Olivieri's lawyer, Brian Gardner, is expected to mount his defense today.
HOW is it that Organized Crime-namely MAFIA have been in the carpenters union for decades.How is it that D'Errico & Caperso-both related to Vinny The Chin Gigante are even allowed to have a fucking spot in the Union? My uncle is Vinny The Chin? is my rights to be in charge of the crook Mike Forde's office? He's in charge? Dennis Walsh is doing WHAT?allowing that?
ReplyDeleteGREANEY AND HAYES THREW A RETIREMENT PARTY FOR JOHNNY BARRETT AT JACK DEMPSEY'S ON 33RD ST. DEMPSEYS IS RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE ON-PAR JOB THAT THEY WERE ROBBING US ON!. JIM MURRAY WAS AT THE PARTY SO WAS GREANEY ,HAYES, COSTELLO , FIRTH, MITCHELL , DALY , MCWILLIAMS , AND OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT MIKE MURPHY.
ReplyDeleteMIKE DIDN'T GO , NOT ENOUGH COKE , GREANEY NEVER SHARED. THESE MOTHERFUCKERS SAT IN THAT BAR WITH WORKING MEMBERS WHO THEY WERE ROBBING!
CAN YOU IMAGINE ALL THE LITTLE NODS AND SMIRKS THEY MUST HAVE BEEN GIVING EACH OTHER WHILE LOOKING ACROSS AT THE JOB THEY LOOTED A COUPLE OF HUNDRED THOUSAND OFF OF?
THIS JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU HOW MUCH THEY HELD THE AVERAGE WORKING MAN AND WOMAN IN CONTEMPT.
THE OFFICERS PENSION CREDIT IS WORTH $350 PER CREDIT!
THESE FUCKS PAID THEMSELVES THAT BENEFIT WHILE THEY WERE ROBBING US!
THAT IS ALMOST FIVE TIMES WHAT A MEMBERS PENSION CREDIT IS WORTH.
THEY THINK THAT THE WORK THEY DO IS WORTH FIVE TIMES MORE THAN YOURS AND THEY DON'T SWEAT AND BLEED FOR EVERY DOLLAR LIKE THE REST OF US.
MURPHY TOOK 150 THOUSAND A YEAR WITH A TRUCK AND A $350 PENSION CREDIT FOR TEN YEARS AND NEVER CAUGHT ANY OF THE " BOYS " DOING ANYTHING WRONG. HE WENT TO THE CEILING AND DRYWALL CONVENTION IN FLORIDA EVERY FEBRUARY TO WORK ON HIS WINTER TAN. HE WAS IN BED WITH THEM MACK KNEW WALSH KNOWS. HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED.
PAY THEM BACK BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN, VOTE THEM THE FUCK OUT!
Olivieri was found GUILTY at 4pm today after only One Hour of deliberations.
ReplyDeleteA Suffolk deputy labor commissioner was fired Wednesday after he testified in a federal corruption trial that he made illegal payoffs to union officials and met in a graveyard with a secret business partner to tip him off to a federal probe.
ReplyDeleteSuffolk County Executive Steve Levy fired Lawrence Cooley, 69, of Greenlawn.
How many of you Carpenter Union Scumbags worked FOR CASH with ONPAR jobs? How many of you scumbags took a 35 week check & then worked OT for CASH?You should all be thrown the fuck out of the union.Shit no one would even attempt to ask me any such thing because they knew i wouldn't take any graft.I even had someone call me up to work on that onpar job & i'm like-How the fuck could the union NOT KNOW about the whole cash scenario? Fucked up when you can't even report shit to the union because THEY are the ones involved in it.
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