Mazzocchi Wrecking benefited from being “a friend of the administration”
The trial of former Newark deputy mayor Ronald Salahuddin has been hearing how he supposedly influenced the allocation of emergency demolition contracts to “friend of the administration” Mazzocchi Wrecking, even though the company was widely known as “one of the highest charging demolition contractors in the state.”
The latest revelations came from Newark demolition manager Bob Minter who recalls an encounter with Salahuddin in late 2006 or early 2007. Minter said, Salahuddin told him he noticed Minter was awarding demolition contracts to another contractor, T. Fiore Demolition. Minter said Salahuddin told him, “I want you to know he’s not a friend of the administration. Mazzocchi is a friend of the administration.”
“My interpretation of that was the work I had been giving to Teddy Fiore, to give to Mazzocchi,” Minter said. “There had been favorable concessions made to the Booker administration that Fiore had not made.”
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