His father owns a concrete company and is having an affair with a female employee.

In 2000, a federal judge ruled for the concrete company, and the city replaced the program with one that favored small, struggling businesses.

He worked at his father's two Italian bakeries and for a concrete company run by a family friend.

In the offseason, Nie works for a local concrete company as a driver.

Back in the Plex, he made phone calls to several readymix concrete companies.

In Nashville, Currington also worked for a concrete company, and as a personal trainer.

Those workers now own 40 to 50 percent of Long Island's cement and concrete companies by some estimates.

In terms of his concrete company, he said, "we might finally be able to plan the future."

To fight this collusion, the city decided to encourage a new concrete company to open.

He later worked for a concrete company in Philadelphia, retiring as vice president of sales.