John J. Cannatello This is Me

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1. 1. AP Wire | 07/21/2005 | Trucker who raked in $325,000 a year from city pleads guilty

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   Published on: 7/21/2005   Last Visited: 7/21/2005

   John Cannatello, 54, of suburban Palos Park and Marco Island, Fla., the retired head of GNA Trucking, became the 21st defendant to plead guilty in the government's 18-month investigation of the program under which the city outsources hauling work to private truckers.
   
   Cannatello said in a 14-page signed plea agreement that every December between 1998 and 2003 he delivered an envelope containing between $1,000 and $3,000 in cash to Donald Tomczak, who was then the first deputy commissioner in the city's department of water management.
   
   He said he made payments to other city officials as well as provided them with Christmas gifts and contributions to favored political candidates.
   
   "I'm pleading guilty because I did what the government says I did," Cannatello told U.S. District Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan.
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   Unlike a number of other defendants who have pleaded guilty in the Hired Truck scandal, Cannatello did not agree to cooperate with federal prosecutors in the ongoing investigation.
   
   Cannatello's wife, Nicola, 57, has pleaded not guilty to charges that she made false statements to federal agents when she said that her husband was not involved in the management of GNA.The company was registered with the city as a woman-owned business.

2. 2. Trucking firm's owner 16th charged in probe (Chicago Tribune 2005-1-26)

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   Published on: 1/26/2005   Last Visited: 10/25/2006

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   The charges, unsealed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, also accuse John Cannatello of paying cash bribes and making campaign contributions to an indicted former high-ranking city official to get lucrative work in the Hired Truck Program.
   
   According to the charges, Cannatello hid his role as the principal operator and manager of GNA Trucking Inc.
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   Cannatello made an initial appearance Tuesday in U.S. District Court and was released on his own recognizance.He was charged with two counts of mail fraud in a criminal complaint.
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   The evidence will show that Cannatello was an employee of GNA Trucking "and nothing more than that," Wanderling said.
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   Prosecutors didn't dispute that Cannatello's wife did some work for GNA Trucking but contended a number of witnesses, including the operator of a trucking repair business located at the same address, would testify for the government that Cannatello controlled the business operations.Cannatello also dealt with the city, GNA Trucking's primary client, the government said.
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   Cannatello and several of his family members have held county jobs.Cannatello was a regional superintendent for the Forest Preserve District from 1995 to 2001 , and his wife worked in the Public Health Department.

3. 3. Indictments in Hired Truck scandal hit 23

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   Published on: 2/25/2005   Last Visited: 2/25/2005

   John Cannatello, 59, of Palos Park, a principal operating agent of GNA Trucking Co., which was registered with the city as a woman's business enterprise and thus became eligible for work earmarked for female-owned and operated companies.
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   John Cannatello had been charged previously in a criminal complaint but was not part of the indictment until now.None of the six others had ever been charged.