Staten Island Parks Department cans demolition company hired previous week.
The Staten Island Parks Department has fired the Brooklyn-based demolition company it hired last week to handle demolition of the Cromwell Center in Tompkinsville — just hours after local newspaper the Staten Island Advance published a story revealing the company’s troubled history.
The Advance reported today that MRC’s principal officer, 67-year-old Grasmere resident Ronald D’Agostino, spent 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to federal mail fraud in 1994. D’Agostino’s criminal record is the reason why, in 2008, MRC II was barred for life from doing any waste management business with the city.
As noted in the Vendor Information Exchange System: “Registration was denied because applicant’s president was convicted of mail fraud, a racketeering activity…and did provide false information to the Business Integrity Commission and engaged in long-term unlicensed trade waste activity.”
MRC II also defaulted on a contract with the city Department of Design and Construction (DDC) last October, following a determination by the agency that the contractor was “non-responsible” and “lacked the requisite business integrity” to work for them.
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