Competition versus corruption: reforming NY's garbage industry.
Real Estate Weekly › December 11, 1996
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Competition versus corruption: reforming NY's garbage industry.
Until recently, all of the private companies responsible for picking up trash generated by commercial establishments in New York were members of trade associations controlled by organized crime, specifically the Gambino and Luchessi crime families.
Under this system, which has been around since the 1950s, a property owner had no choice about who would haul his trash; his location was, in effect, owned by the hauler, who could buy, sell or trade it as he saw fit. Not surprisingly, these properties changed hands at extraordinarily high prices. S...See the full content of this document
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