My favorite New York "Joe's Cement" story is that when they were expanding Islip airport, a mob-owned cement company that was giving kickbacks to the local county government poured the ramp pad WAY under the specified thickness using unreinforced concrete, so of course the first Southwest plane to arrive damaged it.

Don't hire a mob-owned cement company, you say? Tough noogies, In NY, at least at that time, they were all mob-owned.

https://www.aviationpros.com/home/news/10393303/southwests-c...

https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=401393

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/23/nyregion/mob-allegation-c...

https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/material-politics-of-new-y...