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STATE AGENCIES FALL SHORT IN DEALING WITH OUT OF STATE TRASH HAULERS SECOND OF THREE PARTS
[STATEWIDE Edition]
Hartford Courant - Hartford, Conn.
Author: THOMAS D. WILLIAMS and DANIEL P. JONES; Courant Staff Writers
Date: Aug 23, 1996
Start Page: A.1
Section: MAIN (A)
Text Word Count: 1160
Abstract (Document Summary)

Five years ago, when the state's big trash-to-energy plant in Hartford wasn't getting enough waste from area towns, managers came up with what seemed like a good idea: invite in garbage haulers from New York.

Connecticut has no specific laws that prevent haulers who face criminal charges -- or even those convicted of anti-competitive behavior -- from obtaining trash permits from the DEP or from dumping trash at state-operated trash facilities.

And the operator of a Danbury trash-transfer station that receives garbage from New York and sends it to Hartford, is in business in another venture with Thomas Milo, of Pelham, N.Y. Milo faces federal criminal charges that he was part of a Mafia cartel that used arson, bribery and violence to dominate the garbage-hauling industry in suburbs north of New York City and parts of southwestern Connecticut. He has pleaded not guilty.

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