{"id":54,"date":"2023-11-15T22:04:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/table-of-success.local\/?p=54"},"modified":"2023-12-18T13:36:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T13:36:59","slug":"michael-mazzio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tableofsuccess.mysites.io\/michael-mazzio\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Mazzio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Michael Mazzio, the owner of Mike\u2019s Heavy Duty Towing, had a problem. In 2020, the de Blasio administration did not renew his City tow trucking license. Two years earlier, he was charged with allegedly illegally subcontracting his lucrative City tow truck contract<\/a> to other companies in exchange for cash (he recently pleaded guilty to “attempted agreement in restraint of trade, a class A misdemeanor, and all other related charges were dropped). The City\u2019s Department of Consumer Affairs found he was price-gouging the people his company towed<\/a>, which ultimately led to the 2020 decision not to renew his license. Now, Mazzio’s company was possibly out big money in towing revenue, all while his own lawsuit against the City alleging unfair treatment dragged on<\/a>. (Mazzio is being represented in that case by the firm Abrams Fensterman, where Frank Carone<\/a>, Mayor Eric Adams’s former chief of staff, now works.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n But after Adams was elected mayor, perhaps Mazzio thought his administration could be convinced, one way or another, to change the City’s tune and give him his towing license back. After all, Mazzio now had a friend on the inside\u2014fellow Table of Success member, future buildings commissioner and senior adviser to the incoming mayor, outgoing Republican City Councilmember Eric Ulrich<\/a>, who represented Mazzio’s Howard Beach neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n