<P> Operation Wasteland was an undercover investigation into organized crime control of the waste disposal industry in New York City . </P> <P> The investigation resulted in the indictment and conviction of over one hundred participants in price - fixing and bid rigging of waste hauling contracts in the city . </P> <P> The story is detailed in the book, Takedown, the Fall of the Last Mafia Empire, by Detective Rick Cowan and co-author Douglas Century, and in Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage by Heather Rogers . </P>

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