Just Like Old Times: Garbage Hauler Linked to Gambinos Gets Grilled
New York City's private carting industry is the focus of ongoing probes of two garbage haulers following a number of fatal accidents caused by garbage trucks either losing tires or crashing into people. Joe Gallo, former Gambino consiglieri New York City's Business Integrity Commission (BIC), which licenses and regulates private sanitation companies, is investigating New Jersey-based Century Waste Services, which was once linked to an associate of the Gambino crime family. The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey also is investigating Century Waste Services to learn how it scored $2.7 million in contracts since 2014. Century Waste’s headquarters are located in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on property owned by Frank Savino, the father of the current owner of Century, raising questions about to what extent Frank Savino may be involved in an industry that BIC expressly barred him from in 1998 as part of a plea agreement with the Manhattan district attorney. S...