Loading ...Sure the Internet helped spread the news, but MECHANICALLY speaking, 9/11 caused and led to the crash in 2008 that exposed 100 metric tons of corruption all over the USA starting with Bernie Madoff.
Even in my local area you gotta read the story of a shrewd Indian born restaurateur that was bribing local big shots to get big favors and vice versa, needed HELP after the 2008 crash.
He could not get MORE credit for more loans to stay alive, and needed $20 million, and got Nassau county officials to make the tax payers back up or cosign the loan (against the law) and he could Not pay it and they are all in court now.
With Mr. Harendra Singh, singing like a bird (a rat) against the others for a better punishment deal.
Some of above was related to silverngold @ 8:00
Parts of story, how it started BEFORE the 2008 crash which exposed the corruption:
He said a parking dispute with a neighboring diner when he ran No Bananas restaurant in Bethpage inadvertently opened the door to his political friendships.
In litigation, the diner was represented by Gulotta and Stein, a law firm run by Frank Gulotta, brother of then-Nassau County Executive Thomas Gulotta, Singh said. As a result, Singh was “harassed” by Oyster Bay Town inspectors who issued No Bananas repeated summonses, he said.
One inspector, Frank Nocerino, who would go on to be town parks commissioner, said the goal was to drive Singh out of business, Singh said. A building inspector friend, Gary Blanchard, put Singh in touch with then-town board member Leonard Kunzig, who placed a call to Nocerino and put a stop to the summonses, Singh said.
“If you want to live in peace, you better join the Bethpage Republican Club,” Singh said Kunzig advised him.
So Singh did, he said.
“My take-away was that if you want to live in peace, you join the club,” he said. “You basically do the things that people want you to do . . . the people in power . . . Republicans in Oyster Bay.”
Singh said that in 1997, he contributed $5,000 to Venditto’s successful campaign for town supervisor.
A year later, he won a three-month emergency contract for the town golf course concessions, and later, won a three-year contract with options to extend to a total seven years, he said.
Singh said he talked with Genova and Mei, and, in 2000, he won a 20-year contract with a 10-year renewal option.
“It afforded me the American dreams which I was working for,” Singh said.
Yet with each contract extension, Singh said he was never satisfied and sought more. “We wanted to make sure our investment was secure,” he said.
Federal prosecutors have alleged that perks the Manganos and Venditto enjoyed from Singh included: a no-show job for Linda Mangano that netted her a total $450,000, office and massage chairs for Edward Mangano totaling nearly $7,000 and a luxury watch that cost $7,300 and that Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Treinis Gatz said the Manganos presented to one of their sons for his 21st birthday “claiming it was from them.”
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/crime/mangano-venditto-corruption-trial-1.17401754