Oh, I know. The idea that the "business climate" is clean in NY is laughable.
Many years ago I had to go to NYC to troubleshoot a big excavation. It was an entire city block on lower Manhattan, I don't recall what building was going up- this was back around '82-'83. The excavation was about 40 feet below street level.
The company was the second largest construction company in New York. I won't say the name, but everyone went by Petey, or Paulie, or Guido, you get the idea. You don't get to be the second largest construction company in NY without being connected...
They would excavate the rock from the construction site on one contract, and truck it about 2 miles to the Hudson, where they sold it back to the city to shore up the river bank. Got paid to dig it out, and paid again to dump it, lol.