The Dolphin Mafia and The Waste Management Industries: An Exclusive Expose - Part I

East Rutherford, NJ - Donald Altieri lived, on paper, a normal life.  A middle class family man, rising through the ranks of a respected neighborhood carting firm from trash handler, to driver, to dispatcher, eventually to regional manager.  With the modest career path fulfilled, the few trappings of luxury he acquired for his family - a mink stole for his wife, a late model used Jeep for his son, a high-end SUV for himself - seemed ordinary.  However when Mr. Altieri took the stand at Federal Court yesterday, his life was nothing but ordinary.  A high level Captain in the Odontoceti Crime Family, Mr. Altieri turned state's evidence in return for a reduced sentence for guilty pleas in racketeering, money laundering and violations of the RICO act.  The revelations that followed Mr. Altieri's testimony shocked the world of organized crime.

"I [have] been working for the Odontoceti's for about 38 years.  It started small enough when I was just picking up trash, just a kid dropping out of high school.  First we'd start by smashing [the other carting company's] bins and dumpsters.  [Just to] Let them know who's boss.  As I got better [at petty vandalism], I [would] get better jobs.  But some [of the jobs] were queer.  Strange, you know?  Not in the [REDACTED] way.  Fifty pounds of fresh tuna here.  Sinking a trawler boat in Elizabeth [New Jersey] there.  Breaking the legs of a blacksmith who worked on the docks.  Paying huge bribes to Greenpeace.  Something was a little bit, pardon my pun, fishy."

PART II of The Expose Continues Tomorrow.