Opinion ID: 797991
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: The Construction Industry Extortion

Text: 7 The Gambino Family, with Peter Gotti as Acting Boss, used its control of labor unions to extort the construction industry. DiLeonardo estimated that the Gambino Family made tens of millions of dollars extorting construction companies. In exchange for money, the construction companies were permitted to hire non-union workers without trouble from unions. If the contractor or union official resisted, either he would be hurt or there would be a strike, or work on a construction job would be stopped. In addition to money, the construction companies also gave the Gambino Family cushy no show/no work jobs. Carbonaro's nephew and Peter Gotti's son received such jobs. In a conversation Peter had in 1996 with his brother John in the Marion prison, where John was serving his sentence, Peter told John that Peter's son was a shop steward and, although he wished his son could stay in the job forever, the Government, . . . they got a big thing, a big investigation. Carbonaro participated in the Family's extortion of the industry by accompanying Eddie Garafola, a Gambino Soldier, to collect extortion-related payments from contractors and construction-industry officials.