Second ex-ISC employee pleads guilty in extortion scheme

By Bob Pockrass - Associate Editor
Saturday, August 16, 2008

Todd Polakoff, a former International Speedway Corp. employee, has became the second of two former ISC employees to plead guilty to one count of extortion conspiracy in association with the failed attempt to put a race track on Staten Island.
 
Polakoff will be sentenced Oct. 16 in U.S. District Court in New York, according to court records. He was scheduled to go to trial earlier this week.
 
Polakoff and his supervisor, WIllilam Kilgannon, were among 62 people indicted in February as part of a wide-ranging, 80-count federal indictment that targeted alleged Mafia members, including three high-ranking members of the Gambino crime family.
 
Kilgannon and Polakoff were former employees of ISC subsidiary North American Testing Co., which handles design and construction for ISC.
 
Polakoff worked for NATC between November 2005 and December 2006 as a project manager on the Staten Island development project. Kilgannon worked as director of construction for NATC from May 2005 to December 2006 and was Polakoff's supervisor, according to ISC.
 
The proposed track site required large quantities of dirt fill, thus requiring trucking contracts that were controlled by the Gambino family,
according to a U.S. Department of Justice news release issued at the time of the indictment.
 
Both Polakoff and Kilgannon pleaded guilty last week to the count accusing them of accepting a $9,000 check from the owner of a trucking company.
 
Kilgannon will be sentenced Oct. 27.

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    Arnie Bigster said:
    Aug 16, 2008 at 2:55 PM

    ISC and Mafia in the same sentence???...Say it ain't so!!! Geez!

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    Ronald Schwalbe said:
    Aug 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM

    At least the Mafia HONORS "tradition" - they don't toss it away.

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