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Atlantic City Resorts Demolition Allowed to Continue

"Commissioners voted 3-0 to let Maztec Environmental Inc. complete the five-week job, accepting the company's offer to place all payments to Maztec in an escrow account and promise that a controversial executive will have no involvement in the job.

"…Maztec lawyer Lloyd Levenson said he was `thrilled' with the ruling.

"…Maztec is being paid $400,000 to tear down Resorts' 166-room North Tower, which will be the site of a $115 million hotel expansion to open by June 2004. Maztec is allowed only to pay its employees; other funds it receives will be escrowed until the commission rules on the larger issue of renewing Maztec's casino-service industry license.

"… If Maztec were banned from the job, Resorts lawyer Hersh Kozlov said, the project would be delayed up to three months. The delay would create a `ripple effect' in scheduling other subcontractors and cause Resorts to alter deadlines with its lenders, he said.

"…The DGE (Division of Gaming Enforcement ) reported that Mazzocchi and Maztec have associated with Pino Schifilliti, an alleged captain in the DeCavalcante organized crime family; employed Frank Nigro, an alleged DeCavalcante soldier; and employed Operations Manager Charles DiMaria, who has associated with Schifilliti and who agreed to a lifetime ban from a labor union after it was investigated for mob influence…"

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