{"id":3516,"date":"2008-06-12T09:08:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-12T14:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2008-06-12T09:08:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T14:08:26","slug":"what_is_this_chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/what_is_this_chicago.html","title":{"rendered":"What Is This, Chicago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The qualifying statement &#8220;which has a contract despite alleged mob ties&#8221; seems to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06122008\/news\/regionalnews\/eatery_cooks_books_115138.htm\">becoming a cliche<\/a>*:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A thriving Queens restaurant and catering hall &#8212; which has a contract with the Parks Department despite alleged mob ties &#8212; keeps such shoddy records that it&#8217;s impossible to tell how much taxpayers are losing from unreported revenue, city Comptroller Bill Thompson charges in an explosive audit. <\/p>\n<p>Based on the receipts they could find, Thompson&#8217;s auditors said the Merissa Restaurant Corp., which operates Caffe on the Green in Bayside, owes the city $120,607 in fees for nearly $1 million in unreported income during 2006 and 2007.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For example: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/though_nothing_has_been_proved.html\">&#8220;Though Nothing Has Been Proved&#8221;<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/the_bad_old_day_1.html\">The Bad Old Days Never Left &#8212; They Just Went To Work For Jofaz<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/its_my_park.html\">It&#8217;s My Park!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The qualifying statement &#8220;which has a contract despite alleged mob ties&#8221; seems to be becoming a cliche*: A thriving Queens restaurant and catering hall &#8212; which has a contract with the Parks Department despite alleged mob ties &#8212; keeps such shoddy records that it&#8217;s impossible to tell how much taxpayers are losing from unreported revenue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}