Crane owner James Lomma was acquitted today of the deaths of two construction workers who were killed in the fatal 2008 construction accident on the Upper East Side.
Judge Daniel Conviser gave his verdict in Manhattan Supreme Court, clearing Mr. Lomma and his company New York Crane & Equipment Corp. of second-degree manslaughter, assault, Read More
Construction firm Lend Lease (US) Construction LMB, nee Bovis Lend Lease, was hit with fraud charges and ordered to pay up to $56 million by the US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn Tuesday.
The firm, which worked on projects like the Bronx Criminal Courthouse in the Bronx, Grand Central Terminal, and Citi Field in Queens, was accused of “fraudulently” overbilling its clients for the past two decades. Bovis was also accused of “misrepresenting the work performed by its minority business enterprise partners” in order to win bids on public projects, the US Attorney’s Office said. Read More
The former head of the Department of Building’s cranes and derricks division said that crane owner James Lomma should have been arrested for poorly maintaining two tower cranes in 2007.
During her testimony at Mr. Lomma’s manslaughter trial in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday, former DOB official Bethany Klein said that the head of New York Crane & Equipment Corp. had failed to make two crucial repairs to the two cranes, one of which eventually collapse and kill two men at the E. 91st street accident in 2008. Read More
The grim-looking fella wearing a black Adidas tracksuit hanging slackly from his broad frame didn’t appear to be the sort you’d figure for a globetrotting, multi-million-dollar-swindling, authority-duping mountebank that the female Assistant District Attorney was describing late Friday night inside a Manhattan Criminal Courtroom.
Perhaps that’s the most obvious knock on Douglas Arntsen, a 34-year-old real estate attorney who, according to his attorney Alan Lewis, is a native Staten Islander with deep ties to the borough and the two parishes he attended as a kid—St. Peter’s Church and Our Lady Star of the Sea—not to mention his hardworking parents. Indeed, in testimony now immortalized in criminal court documents, the defendant, insisted Mr. Lewis, was raised by a law-abiding architect and an assistant principal at a local school.
“He deserves to be treated as a person who has never been arrested before,” said Mr. Lewis during a criminal court arraignment proceeding late Friday night–”[as a] US citizen with deep community ties.” Read More
