NYDaily News: Pols cashed in on a sweet deal

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http://nydailynews.com/front/story/358445p-305314c.html

How tiny condo sale & huge S.I. project are blood relatives


By GREG B. SMITH
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER


Siesta Key Gulf View condos in Florida


Ex-beep Guy Molinari

A contractor with links to the mob paid former U.S. Reps. Susan Molinari and her husband nearly twice the assessed market value for their share in a Florida condo after winning a taxpayer-funded project pushed by her father.
The 2002 sale, which netted Molinari and husband, Bill Paxon, a $300,000 profit, came after Salvatore Calcagno was hired as a major contractor in the construction of a refrigerated warehouse at the Howland Hook Terminal on Staten Island.

The $10 million project was heavily pushed by Susan's father, Guy Molinari, when he was borough president, and was funded, in part, by his office.

Calcagno is a close personal friend of and longtime fund-raiser for the elder Molinari. In 2001, Calcagno was secretly recorded meeting with a powerful Gambino crime family soldier and was recently indicted on tax fraud charges.

The former borough president's daughter and Paxon are well-paid Washington lobbyists, and are considered to be members of the Beltway's Republican elite. <snip>

[shrike]

1. And the sky is blue

And of course they are repubs.

[leftofthedial]

2. so this will be 30 times as big a scandal as Whitewater, right?

Clinton--$10,000 "scandal"

repuke du jour--$300,000 crime