So for an example a building contract worth 100 mil. The mob will charge the 2% mob tax which is 2 mil of the contract. And if the contractors want 100 union men the mobbed up union will hand them like 80 and the rest of the 20 would be no show jobs and non union workers?
It varies depending on any number of factors - the union, the contractor, the project size, etc. 2% has been an often quoted figure and I think it originally stemmed from the "Concrete Club" that was part of the Commission case. Under that arrangement, there were 7 concrete companies (X.L.O Concrete Corp., Technical Concrete Construction Corp., Century-Maxim Construction Corp., Cedar Park Concrete Corp., North Berry Concrete Corp., G&G Concrete Corp., S&A Concrete Company, Inc.) that were allowed to bid on projects where the value of the concrete contract was $2 million to $15 million. In order to get the bid, the contractor had to kickback 2% of the contract, which was split between the 4 NY families involved. Any project where the concrete was over $15 million went to Fat Tony's company, S&A Concrete. Other companies outside the club were allowed to bid on projects under $2 million but they had to make a $50,000 payoff to the Colombos.
