No Brooklyn blog is complete without Mobsters. As I said, my neighborhood has the makings of a 1980’s Vincent Spano movie. Ingredient A: the Mob. Here are the owners of the closed cement factory next door:

Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau and New York City Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik announced today the indictment of 38 individuals and 11 companies on racketeering charges stemming from a three year joint investigation into organized crime’s involvement in the construction industry in the City.

The indictment charges that the members of the criminal enterprise, denominated “The Lucchese Construction Group,” engaged in a number of labor bribery, bid rigging, and other anticompetitive schemes that systematically siphoned millions of dollars from both public and private construction projects. To generate the criminal proceeds of these schemes, corrupt contractors, who were required to use union labor and pay “prevailing wages,” instead used non-union labor and did not pay prevailing wages. However, they billed the public agencies and private developers as if they had complied with the law. The difference between what was billed and the contractor’s actual labor cost financed bribes to corrupt union officials to allow the use of non-union labor and payments to organized crime officials of a “mob tax” of at least five percent of the contract’s value to facilitate the schemes.