Opinion ID: 809736
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Mill Bribe

Text: In March 2010, Zambarano told Caranci that he might be working on something else on behalf of the corrupt councilmen. Two developers, Vincent Coccoli and Kevin O'Sullivan, had applied to the Town Council to rezone an industrial mill complex that they hoped to convert into apartments. Zambarano was attempting to extract a bribe from them in exchange for approval of their application. Ciresi represented these developers as well. On March 15, 2010, Zambarano informed Caranci that Ciresi was going to try to arrange a bribe but harbored doubts about his ability to do so because he had never before represented these developers. Two weeks later, on March 28, 2010, Zambarano reported to Caranci that he had asked Ciresi about negotiating a bribe with Coccoli and that Ciresi had replied: I don't even know him . . . so let me feel him out. Zambarano also said that Ciresi had subsequently warned him against approaching Coccoli for a bribe but had suggested that O'Sullivan could be approached by his former -5- business partner, Edward Imondi, whom Zambarano knew.2 Zambarano also told Caranci that although Ciresi had received a few thousand dollars for his involvement in the supermarket bribe, [h]e seems like he doesn't want nothing doin in the mill bribe. On April 4, 2010, Zambarano notified Caranci that Ciresi was out but that Imondi had helped arrange a bribe from O'Sullivan and would receive a share of this bribe, just as Ciresi had received a share of the supermarket bribe. In response to Caranci's questioning about how the bribes were being divided up, Zambarano disclosed that his own share of the supermarket bribe had been $2,200 larger than Caranci's because he had done more legwork. On April 26, 2010, O'Sullivan delivered a down payment on the $75,000 bribe to Imondi, who retained his own share and passed along the remainder to Douglas and Burchfield. The Town Council unanimously voted to approve the rezoning application the same day.