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Susan Cunningham
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Everyone seems to forget the Lizza family's Gotti / Mafia connections

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The world he had grown up in, the one no one in DC seemed to know, was imploding. A local empire made on the roads of Long Island was now embroiled in the courts of New York. Three months earlier, his elder brother Frank Jr. had been charged by federal prosecutors with defrauding a union benefit fund and making false statements, becoming the third Lizza to be investigated by authorities. He would soon become the family’s second convicted felon in the space of three years. The Lizza wealth had been built on decades of government contracts across a web of road, asphalt, and construction businesses. Lizza’s grandfather Carlo, the son of an Italian laborer, started the family’s first eponymous company in America. It paved much of the Long Island Expressway. Carlo’s sons all went on to found construction firms of their own. Some of these firms, and some of the sons, would later be indicted on conspiracy to rig bids on federal contracts, conspiracy to bribe local officials, and in one instance, to be accused of mob ties to John Gotti, the “Teflon Don” and head of the Gambino crime family in late 1980s New York.
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Wow. Exhaustive coverage. "Wang just described 90% of #CGTN studio content — soft, cultural ...what is concealed from public view, and why its progenitors are so keen to avoid identification, is this theoretical grounding underpins all its work. Simply: their content is innocuous. Until it isn’t."
November 26, 2025 at 9:42 AM