Via NewsTimesLive:

Feds expand trash probe: FBI, IRS raid facilities of firms in two states

By John Pirro. Karen Ali
and Tony Jones
The News-Times

FBI raids at two Danbury trash hauling firms appear to be part of a larger investigation into possible organized crime involvement in the waste disposal industry in Connecticut and New York.

It was well after midnight Wednesday when agents finished loading dozens of boxes from the Automated Waste Disposal complex on White Street into a Ryder truck. About 16 hours later, FBI and Internal Revenue Services agents searched the offices of Country Disposal on Beckerle Street in Danbury.

Lisa Bull, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Connecticut office, said the Danbury raids are part of the same investigation that saw federal agents search the office of the Putnam County Executive in Carmel, N.Y., and about a dozen trash haulers in Connecticut, New York and Long Island on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Just the tip of the iceberg in this investigation, which appears to implicate a gaggle of local politicians, convicted fellons and several other waste firms spread across multiple states. Sounds like a really fun case. Read the full article here.

-- MDT