Biker dies in tragic wreck
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Under his own name Lattanzio has personally obtained a license from the Buildings Department for two other firms, Domani Contracting and Trade Off LLC, records show.
Another firm, Domani Inspection Service, lists Mathew Caruso as “owner” on a license to operate a “special inspection agency” to monitor code compliance for builders.
Incorporation papers filed with the state, however, list the firm’s CEO as “Ronald Lahanzio.” Another company at the same address, Domani Technical & Design, lists Lattanzio as CEO with the correct spelling.
Lattanzio’s companies are currently lobbying the City Council to pass bills that would likely result in contractors hiring even more site safety managers.
In January another firm operating out of Construction & Realty’s offices, the Rossi Corp., whose president is listed as Caruso, hired Cahill Strategies to work the City Council on construction safety issues.
During a January City Council hearing chaired by Williams, Caruso, who identified himself as president of yet another firm under CRSG’s wing, CR Safety, offered testimony in favor of several proposed laws that are designed to make sites safer. Lattanzio is also writing checks to politicians as president of Construction & Realty, including Mayor de Blasio ($3,400) in 2013 and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer ($1,500) in 2014. And shortly after the Council hearing, the lobbyist hired by one of Lattanzio’s companies, Buildings Committee Chairman Williams attended a dinner for developers at Keens Steakhouse in the Garment District. Williams was the keynote speaker. Lattanzio was present at the dinner, and on the same day his top executive, Caruso, wrote Williams a $1,000 campaign check. Other contractors in attendance wrote checks, too, for a total of $6,500 for Williams’ campaign. Days earlier Williams had announced he was running for speaker of the City Council.
On Friday Williams recalled being invited to the dinner either by Construction & Realty or Cahill, and remembered that some — though not all — in attendance wound up writing checks to his campaign.
He said he did not recall meeting Lattanzio at the dinner, though he was familiar with Caruso’s name. He emphasized that he was not swayed by the donations and that those in attendance did not agree with all of his positions on the pending bills. A 54-YEAR-OLD motorcyclist died after he lost control of his bike in Harlem in front of his horrified son, officials and the son said Saturday.
Anthony Williams was on his way to his mother’s Bronx home when he rammed his white KTM RS motorcycle into a parked Jeep Grand Cherokee on W. 142nd St. just west of Lenox Ave. about 3:15 p.m. Friday, cops said.
“It just happened in less than 30 seconds,” said the victim’s son Kevin Williams, 19. “It was too fast.”
Williams wasn’t wearing a helmet at the time of the crash, officials said.
“It just looked like the front wheel lost control,” his son said.
After hitting the Jeep, the father of three struck the trunk of a parked Ford Taurus and was thrown from the bike, police said. He died at Harlem Hospital.
Williams was an avid motorcyclist who doted on his ailing mother. “He was a great son and a great dad,” Kevin Williams said.