Regulators Order Company Not to Work for A.C. Casinos

A construction firm with alleged links to the mob was ordered by New Jersey regulators to stop its work for Atlantic City casinos.

According to the police, Interstate Industrial Corp. of Clifton and its owners Frank and Peter DiTommaso lied about their closeness to Bernard Kerik, the former New York police commissioner and onetime nominee for federal homeland security secretary, who admitted accepting "gifts" from individuals wanting to launch a business in the city.

The Casino Control Commission voted, 5-0, to suspend the casino service licenses of Interstate. But commission spokesman Daniel Heneghan said the commission had not yet scheduled a hearing on the state Division of Gaming Enforcement's request to revoke the licenses.

The Interstate and the brothers did not oppose the suspension. The DiTommasos only asked that the revocation hearing wait until perjury charges in New York are resolved.

The brothers pleaded not guilty in July to charges that they lied to a grand jury by denying they secretly paid for the bulk of a 1999 makeover of Kerik's apartment in the Bronx when he was in charge of New York City jails. They face up to seven years in prison if convicted.

For his part, Kerik had acknowledged that he had broken conflict-of-interest laws by accepting $165,000 worth of work on his apartment from a company seeking business with the city.

Kerik was fined $221,000 but will get no jail time.