![]() "If a legitimate company did get a contract and didn't play ball with the Mafia, that's what they would do until they finally gave in."Ĭonstruction companies could be hit up for millions in payments this way. "They would tell their members to slow down the job so the company's losing money every day," Pistone said. Since most big construction projects use unionized workers, a Mafia family could then use its control of the labour force to extort the construction company's bosses. Pistone, seen here in an archive photo not covered under the commission's publication ban, went by the alias Donnie Brasco as he gathered information on the New York Mob. ![]() "They'll start their own union, or there will be an existing union where they'll have their man, a Mafia guy within the union, become the representative of the union, become the president of the union," he testified. "Organized crime cannot operate without corrupting someone," Pistone said in response to questions about how New York's five Mafia families insinuated themselves into business and government.Īnd in the construction sector, that meant gaining control of labour unions - generally by having a Mafia man get elected president or business manager of a local, Pistone said. Joseph Pistone, who spent five years undercover as a Mafia henchman and whose story was made famous in the movie Donnie Brasco, testified at the inquiry about his experience in "deep cover," mostly inside New York's Bonanno crime family in the late 1970s and early '80s. ![]() The former FBI agent who infiltrated the New York Mafia and helped convict more than 200 gangsters told Quebec's Charbonneau commission on Monday that the Mob would manipulate the construction industry and rake in large payoffs by infiltrating unions and controlling the supply of raw materials. ![]()
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