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:: Sunday, March 16, 2003 ::

The Village Voice: The Man Who Got Away by Tom Robbins They followed his sleek black Jaguar, affidavits show, as he repeatedly drove to the Bronx to meet with the then acting boss of the Genovese crime family, a reclusive figure named Dominick "Quiet Dom" Cirillo, who has managed to avoid legal jeopardy, mob experts say, because of his immense caution.

They also listened as Crimi talked tough with a wealthy East Side developer about helping his construction project use non-union labor.

"I told you I'll make your job go non-union; it'll cost you seventy, eighty thousand. For me! OK?" Crimi was heard to say to developer Mark Perlbinder in a February 1999 conversation.

And they noted that Crimi made multiple calls to the office and home of one of the city's largest real estate owners and biggest campaign contributors, Leonard Litwin, whose Glenwood Management Corporation owns some 4500 apartments. Other calls went to the offices of the carpenters union, the Teamsters, the lathers, the electricians, and sheet-metal workers.

Crimi's labor touch was so deft that he was overheard talking about how he had helped an unnamed contractor rid himself of "the rat" - the big rubber blow-up rodent used to taunt non-union contractors.

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