YONKERS: Yonkers Contracting, a family owned business in Yonkers since 1946, has a corporate subsidiary known as Yonkers Property Management to act as a conduit of the #YonkersIDA tax assistance.

Yonkers Contracting that just two contracts by the Port Authority worth nearly $100 million also got IDA tax relief for a New #DunkinDoughnuts to be built on property on Central Park Avenue.

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The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency will hold a public hearing providing Yonkers Contracting financial help in renovating its corporate headquarters.

The #Yonkers company has a very long history of clashes with regulators and law enforcement

The New York Democratic State Committee accused #RobAstorino three years ago of “pay-to-play fundraising” for having accepted $55,000 for his county executive campaigns from Yonkers Contracting between 2011 and 2014.

During that same period, the party website noted out that the company had gotten $218,599,504 in contracts from #WestchesterCounty.

Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s disclosure last month to the state Board of Elections shows a $15,000 donation from a Yonkers Contracting subsidiary, Lumen Light Solutions LLC—bringing his total intake from the business and associated entities to $143,100.

In 2015 the New York Power Authority, which the governor controls, inked a $2.5 million deal with Lumen, a limited liability company, to replace energy-sucking streetlamps in #Yonkers and Westchester County.

In 2010, a federal grand jury convicted the company’s former vice president of soliciting kickbacks from a subcontractor on several MTA projects on which Yonkers Contracting had bid.

In 2012, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Yonkers Contracting for $68,000 in violations after a crane collapse killed a worker along the 7 train line extension, where it was overseeing construction.

The ceiling it installed at the 7’s new Hudson Yards terminus began leaking almost immediately upon completion in 2016.
In 2014, the company coughed up a $2.6 million fine after admitting to former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara that it had lied to the state about having retained a minority subcontractor for a $144 million renovation of I-287.

The New York State is supposed to award contracts through an open, merit-based process isolated from political considerations.

Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s former Albany and Buffalo economic-development point man #AlainKaloyeros and several of the governor’s top campaign donors are currently under indictment for allegedly rigging bids on high-profile projects in Albany and the Buffalo area.

The scandal prompted the governor to propose legislation that would forbid any company from donating to a state official within six months of responding to a state request-for-proposal.

The bill failed to make headway with the Yonkers state delegation in the legislative session that ended in June.

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