Ex-ISC employee pleads guilty to extortion conspiracy involving Gambino crime family
Quote selected text Published June 18th, 2008 in NASCAR News
William Kilgannon, a former International Speedway Corp. employee, has pleaded guilty to one count of extortion conspiracy in association with the failed attempt to put a race track on Staten Island.
Kilgannon will be sentenced Oct. 9 in U.S. District Court in New York, according to court records.
Kilgannon and one of the people he supervised, Todd Polakoff, were among 62 people indicted in February as part of a wide-ranging, 80-count federal indictment that targeted alleged Mafia members, including three high-ranking members of the Gambino crime family.
Kilgannon and Polakoff were former employees of ISC subsidiary North American Testing Co., which handles design and construction for ISC.
Polakoff worked for NATC between November 2005 and December 2006 as a project manager on the Staten Island development project. Kilgannon worked as director of construction for NATC from May 2005 to December 2006 and was Polakoff’s supervisor, according to ISC.
The proposed track site required large quantities of dirt fill, thus requiring trucking contracts that were controlled by the Gambino family, according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release issued at the time of the indictment. According to The Associated Press, those charged in the indictment allegedly forced the owner of a cement business to give $9,000 to the two workers affiliated with ISC.
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this is small peanuts. the mobs are in everything from A-Z, and growing. hope it has no affect on nascar.
What? The Mob in N.Y. City? Who would have thunk it?
Yeah, I agree, big surprise there!
He was with Tony Soprano and Christopher. They didn’t see nuthin’.
Well I guess when you want something bad enough you will side with the devil. Now the untarnished name of ISC and NASCAR will forever be linked with the New York mob.
A discrimination and retaliation case and now this! France family better straighten up or they too will be in the slammer. This is not good and I hope Bruton Smith is sitting back laughing and ready to pounce.
Well Bruton is no angel either, he uses blackmail to get what he wants too. just look at his 60 million dollar dragstrip at Lowes. He held the county hostage by threatening to move everything out.
I’m positive if you dig deep enough Bruton has some ties to the Mod too.
Plus Working with the Mob can’t be that bad… just remember “You didn’t hear nothing, You didn’t see nothing, & You don’t know nobodies name” and you’ll be fine…. l0l