Regarding the Ciminelli bust: "Does every construction scam have to do with the Mafia? No, and there is no evidence that this Ciminelli one did. This was a plain and simple scam. What would the mob's role in this be? And don't you think that if there was a mob angle to this then prosecutors, feds and news reporters would lap it up?""

No, but Ciminelli has always been under leaderships thumb and in my opinion provided sub contractors with cake jobs, inflated prices, allowed theft, and kicked up some money.