How to Make A Hellhole Worse
This is the text of a portion of the recording of a telephone
conversation intercepted by the FBI on July 30, 2002, between Louis
DeNaples, on one end, and Jamie Brazil and Imam Shamsud-Din ALi
on
the other end.
The phone call was part of the evidence used by the Fourth District Investigating Grand Jury that charged DeNaples, the original owner and license holder of the new gambling casino at Mt. Airy in the Poconos, with four counts of perjury.
JAMIE BRAZIL: Louis, I would like to ask you a question.
LOUIS DeNAPLES: Yes?
BRAZIL: Imam and I got a call about -- and I don't know if it's a bogus call, or what's up with it -- getting rid of all the debris from the homes they're tearing down in Philadelphia and nobody's accepting it. And I said, "You've got to be kidding. Like no landfills." -- Nobody's accepting this stuff.
DeNAPLES: We can definitely take it. You know. me and you talked about this but it never materialized, remember?
ALI: Um, huh! That's right.
BRAZIL: Yeah, well, I got a call from -- and between us -- John Minora, saying he's got a buddy by the name of Ray someone, Rinaldi or something that can ship it by rail out to Ohio. And me and Imam were talking, saying. "Jeez, I can't believe no one would take this stuff."
DeNAPLES: No, we definitely could take it. In fact, we talked about you guys bringing it to us but nothing materialized -- nobody ever contacted --
ALI: Right!
DeNAPLES: Nothing, nothing ever happened.
BRAZIL: Shawn Fordman never called, called you?
DeNAPLES: Never -- remember, we had the meeting here?
ALI: They never called him.
DeNAPLES: Nobody ever called me. In fact, we never got one ounce of material or business from that city of Philadelphia at all.
ALI: Um-Huh.
DeNAPLES: Nothing at all, but...
BRAZIL: Well, that's what we've got to go on --
DeNAPLES: We could definitely, definitely take that material...
LATER DURING THE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION
BRAZIL: So, Louis, you'd be willing to accept this.
DeNAPLES: Absolutely. Absolutely. In fact, it would be business for us and we'd be very appreciative if we got it.
ALI: Okay
BRAZIL: Yeah, because you know I got Sam talking to the mayor to find out.
DeNAPLES: In fact, not only that. I have two landfills I can take it in -- I can take it into the CES, our other landfill in Schuylkill County.
DeNaples Indictment court papers can be viewed here.
You can read about Bishop Joseph F. Martino at Bishop Martino, Shame on You
