Steroid rage, guns, Mafiosi, and a shooting in a brick pump house of a mansion — ah, Long Island!
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Muscle-bound son shoots infamous “legendary” construction magnate on Christmas Day.
The bodybuilding-crazed son of a family that helped shape New York City's skyline has been arrested after allegedly shooting his parents at their sprawling $3.2million Long Island estate on Christmas morning.
Construction magnate Rocco Tomassetti, 65, and wife Vinceta Marsicano-Tomassetti, were shot inside their 8,751-square foot mansion in tony Hewlett Harbor about 10 am.Their 29-year-old son Dino Tomassetti pulled the trigger and then fled the scene in a Cadillac Escalade before he was arrested in New Jersey later that night, police said.
The Tomasetti family is part of a construction dynasty formed by the late Dino Tomassetti Sr., an Italian immigrant whose chain of Laquila companies helped shape New York City's skyline.
Their projects include the Goldman Sachs headquarters near Ground Zero, the Bank of America headquarters, condominiums and more. His son Rocco's Empire Transit Mix company provided the concrete for the Freedom Tower and his daughter's company helped develop the structure.
The NYC construction industry is notorious for its total corruption and Mafia infiltration (with concrete suppliers like Rocco’s at the very foundation) so I was intending to DuckDuck “Laquilla Corporation” to see where these people fit in when, reading on, I saw that the Daily Mail’s reporter had done the work for me:
Dino's grandfather is a legend in New York City, both for what he accomplished as a first-generation immigrant and for the scandals that he became embroiled in.
A 2006 New York Times profile detailed how Dino Sr. was once indicted for allegedly illegally paying off union brass throughout the span of a decade. Federal prosecutors had also 'linked him to organized crime figures.'
Dino Jr. isn't the only member of the family who has found himself on the wrong side of the law.
His dad and grandfather were arrested for operating an illegal waste site next to their company's Brooklyn headquarters in 1997, the New York Times reported. That year, the company pleaded guilty to filing fake documents related to a project at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens.
'Laquila, which had a $2.5 million contract to build concrete decking for a new wing at the hospital, had secretly and illegally subcontracted the work to a second company for $1.4 million, enabling Laquila to collect a $1 million profit,' the Times reported. 'The scheme came to light after Laquila failed to pay the second company.'
Dino's grandfather is a legend in New York City, both for what he accomplished as a first-generation immigrant and for the scandals that he became embroiled in.
In the same article, the outlet reported that the company was indicted for racketeering in 1987 for allegedly bribing local officials to let them illegally dump construction waste in New Jersey.
The charges were dropped after Laquila agreed to pay a $25,000 fine.
In 2006, a scathing New York City Sanitation Department report rejected an application by Rocco and Dino Sr. to operate a waste business in the city, calling the pair 'unworthy' of obtaining a registration. [Do check the link to this 18-page report, if you’d like a window into the NYC construction business and corruption, and the Tomassetti family’s role in the whole sordid mess — Ed]
The request was denied because the applicants lacked 'good character, honesty, and integrity,' the report said.
The couple has three children, including twins Rocco and Dino, and daughter Gina, 24.
An acquaintance of Dino’s took news of the incident with a typical New Yorker’s aplomb:
A worker in [son Dino’s} building called Tomasetti “a great guy.
“What can you do?” the worker said. “I’m from the South Bronx. S–t happens every f–king day, man. Not much I can do about it. He did what he felt like he needed to do, I guess.
Guess so.
the shootist
and the shootees
