Mob robs New York city after September 11

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Towers fell, mob schemes began

A four-month Daily News investigation into the $21.4 billion in federal disaster recovery aid has uncovered widespread waste, greed, lax rules and incompetence.

Yesterday, in Part 1 of the groundbreaking series, The News Investigative Team detailed how hundreds of millions of dollars were spent on projects that seemingly had nothing to do with 9/11 and lower Manhattan, how millions went to fat cats and firms that were barely hurt and how hundreds of small and less powerful business entities received barely enough to pay a month's rent.

Today, The News reports on how organized crime moved in on the Ground Zero debris cleanup.


It's 11:34 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, just an hour after the second twin tower has fallen. Already, the mob is scheming to get its piece.

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[Beam Me Up]

1. Feeding frenzy.

By the morning of the 12th, the mob is in a feeding frenzy to get in on the massive cleanup job that will inevitably ensue in lower Manhattan.

In fact, organized crime and corrupt subcontractors turned the terrorist attack into a windfall, according to a four-month Daily News investigation of the federal government's $21.4 billion 9/11 disaster recovery program.

Down at Ground Zero, the Luchese family, the Colombos, the Gambinos and even the New Jersey-based DeCavalcantes all made out, according to court documents, government records and interviews.

They divvied up Ground Zero the way the mob carved up Las Vegas in the old days.

[burythehatchet]

2. HBO couldn't have written it better

what a friggin cliche.

[OneBlueSky]

3. the 9/11 cleanup included disposing of ALL of the WTC steel . . .

quickly and efficiently . . . before it could be examined by forensic investigators . . . in other circumstances, this would be deemed interfering with a murder investigation by destroying evidence . . .

I'd love to know who issued the order to send this steel off to China and elsewhere to be melted down and recycled before it could be examined . . . and why . . .

[burythehatchet]

4. They must not watch CSI

...and help the prime suspect's family escape the country.