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the construction of the building and other construction
jobs in the New York City area.
Based upon his uxperience, this witness has
explained to the staff of the Commission that an average
construction project in New York City can produce a
rake-off or skim for organized crime of approximately
20 percent.
If a general contractor should choose to deal
with a materials supplier other than that designated by
organized crime, the job simply will not get done to the
use and control of the unions expected to work on that
job.
General contractors cannot enter New York City
unless they have the blessing of a Mafia family located
either in New York or in another part of the country.
Organized crime makes money from this sytem in
any number of ways, limited only by their own imagination
through the use of no-shows, through the use of supplier
kickbacks, and, in some cases today, through the actual
ownership of construction companies who this witness has
named for the staff of the Commission.
The cash ultimately is funnelled to organized
crime figures, sometimes through union officials, more
often through the emissaries of organized crime who deal
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