Here's one city contract with plenty of holes in it.
A Brooklyn man with links to the Colombo crime family has been operating a city-owned golf course for more than a year, officials revealed yesterday.
The Parks Department awarded a $10 million contract to run the Marine Park Golf Course to a man who allegedly has ties to the notorious Mafia family, City Comptroller Bill Thompson said.
Dominick Logozzo's 20-year deal to run and repair the golf course, located near the Belt Parkway, began on Jan. 1, 2006. The papers were signed in 2005.
Logozzo allegedly has ties to Craig Marino, a reputed soldier with the Colombo crime family wanted for questioning in several murders, according to an indictment issued by the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's Office last November.
Logozzo's father invested $48,000 in Marino's business, the popular, celebrity-endorsed Zone Diet, which prosecutors contend was really a cover operation to hide fat profits made by selling penny stocks at inflated prices.
The money came from a bank loan taken out by Dominick Logozzo, court papers said.
The Zone Diet was allegedly set up to hide profits Marino made through organized crime. The feds claim Marino made more than $20 million from criminal activities - including so-called "pump-and-dump" schemes - yet has no traceable assets.
Court records also show that Marino - who has the phrase "F - - - the Police" tattooed across his chest - drives a Lincoln Navigator registered to Dominick Logozzo.
"Although Mr. Logozzo is not implicated in any of the criminal activities alleges in the Marino indictment, the information we have obtained gives rise to numerous integrity concerns about the concessionaire," Thompson said in a letter to Parks Department Commissioner Adrian Benepe.
Thompson said the Parks Department should consider bailing out of the arrangement.
A spokesman for Benepe yesterday defended the awarding of the contract, saying it was given in 2005 - before the indictment was delivered - and that a full background check was done.
"We awarded the contract before the indictment was handed down and we complied with all relevant legal requirements in issuing the Request for Proposal and awarding the contracts," said Parks spokesman Warner Johnston.
The city Department of Investigation and the Law Department are both looking into the contract, he said.
Logozzo could not be reached for comment yesterday, but his brother Rocco said any allegations of mob ties are "outrageous" and "shocking."
"All he does is get up and go to work every day," he said. "The Parks Department did a full background check. We have no links to the mob."
Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli
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