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Juror Gets Jail Time for Perjury 2 Queens Juries Stymied VEND1TTI from Page 3 By Wendy Lin A juror in the first trial of three reputed organized crime members accused of killing police Det. Anthony Venditti was sentenced yesterday to four weekends in jail for lying to the judge in the case. Anthony Pirozzi, 54, was convicted of perjury for failing to tell authorities that his brother-in-law had been arrested for a crime and that he had testified on his brother-in-laws behalf. At sentencing before State Supreme Court Justice Herbert Posner, Pirozzi maintained his innocence. I may have answered wrong, Pirozzi said of his replies to the judge during jury selection, but I had nothing to gain from it.

Pirozzi was one of the jurors who held out for the acquittal of three men accused of the Dec. 20, 1986, killing of Venditti. A mistrial was eventually declared. During jury selection in that trial, Pirozzi was asked if any member of his family hnJ in any way particpated in a criminal proceeding. Pirozzi answered, No.

Federico Giovanelli, Carmine Gualtiere and Steven Maltese have been tried twice in the murder. Gualtiere was acquitted during the second trial before it also was declared a mistrial. Wendy Lin illegal enterprise. The three reputed organized crime members have been tried twice in Queens State Supreme Court for the Jan. 20, 1986, execution-style murder of police detective Venditti.

Both trials ended with deadlocked juries. In the most recent trial, which ended last April, Gualtiere was acquitted. Venditti, 34, a highly decorated police officer, was gunned down in front of a diner in Ridgewood after he had been conducting surveillance of defendant Giovanelli. Venditti, a member of the Joint Organized Crime Task Force, was assigned to investigate the gambling operations of the Genovese organized crime family. that no decision on a federal prosecution had been reached.

Were still preparing for trialsaid Santucd, referring to a third trial in State Supreme Court in Queens. But we will do whatever is best for the prosecution of this case. If Giuliani decides to bring a case under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, it would not be necessary to prove the three men killed the 34-year-old officer. That charge would be one part of the larger indictment and the jury would be asked to decide if the defendants were involved in a pattern of racketeering that included violence to protect an 5 Bridge Design Finalists Picked BRIDGE from Page 3 with dozens of cables splaying out along the sides of the structure. It also would be a double-deck bridge, built on either side of the existing bridge and slid together on a Teflon plate when the old bridge is demolished.

Some authorities have attacked the cable-stayed bridge design, in which roadways are held up by cables radiating from support towers, as being susceptible to premature corroding, in some instances because the cables are difficult to inspect and replace. Suspension bridges have massive single cables that hold the roadway aloft. Foster J. Beach III, regional director of the state Department of Transportation and co-chairman of the task force, said: We have taken into account the cost of replacing the cables in every cable-stayed bridge design that we have accepted. In addition, we have required that all the cables be easily replaceable and fully accessible.

City Carters Are Under Probe CARTING from Page 3 ganized crime. Economist Peter Reuter of the Rand Carp, has estimated that the cost of commercial garbage collection in New York City is double what it should be because of mob involvement. Reuter found that companies carved out territories and agreed not to compete for customers, and sold or traded customers back and forth. The current licensing system, in place since 1956, has resulted in a patchwork system of collection, with 61 different carting campanies serving businesses along the 14th Street commercial strip in Manhattan alone. In an effort to provide more careful reporting by the csnting companies, the Department of Consumer Affairs yesterday published proposed new regulations that would increase administrative penalties for failure to report stops and other infractions.

city was overstating the problem. There is a small percentage that do what is being alleged, and in those cases they should bring charges, Druckman said. In an industry this big, it exists. We disagree with the magnitude of the problem. Druckman said many violations cited by the department were technical mistakes by the companies, which did not update paper work on time or made mistakes in the voluminous filings the companies must make with the city.

Vincent Promuto, who owns two carting companies with a total of 10 trucks, said the 40 percent rate for nonreporting seems tremendously high. Im realfy surprised to hear that. On the other hand, given the good reputation of this commissioner, I dont take it lightfy. Much of the private carting industry in the city and surrounding suburbs has long been reputed to be run by or mental adjustments, the cost of a new bridge is now believed in excess of $700 million. Repair cost estimates on the Williamsburg also have soared to as much as $400 million The task force is also studying a proposal by the engineering firm Amman Whitney to remodel and modernize the existing bridge by building a third deck that would contain wider traffic lanes with shoulders.

Part of the old lower deck would then be converted into a third subway track and roadway shoulders. Task Force members estimated the cost of that proposal would be more than repairing and less than a new one. However, it would take just as long to modernize the bridge as it would to build a new one, they said. The winning design wins $70,000 -whether or not it is built. The designs still under consideration are: P.Y.

Lin of San Francisco and N. H. Bettigole, of New York. It calls fora single-deck, cable-stayed bridge both wider and taller than the existing bridge completed, the old bridge would be demolished. Figg and Muller of Tallahassee, Fla.

A cable-stayed bridge with six traffic lanes on the upper deck and six subway tracks on the lower level, it would stretch 500 feet above the water and be 114 feet wide on each deck. This bridge would be built in two sections on either side of the old bridge. When the old bridge was demolished, the two sections would slide together on a giant. Teflon plate, a technique first used in the 1970s in DusBeldarf, West Germany. Steinman Boynton Gronquist Birdsall of New York.

A double-decker suspension bridge built in two stages. Half would be built just north of the existing structure. Then the old bridge would be tom down and the other half would be built in its place and joined to the other. When complete, the bridge would be 160 feet wide and lie 65 feet north of the present span. Arvid Grant Associates of Olympia, Wash.

A double-deck, cable-stayed bridge that sits on a giant concrete block. It would be built directly south of the existing bridge, and after the old one was tom down, would be moved in its place on giant steel rollers. Schlaich und Partner of Stuttgart, West Germany- A hybrid design, vould.fyetiire twp. suspension towers $400,000 from taxes, Aponte said. A breakout of the individual routes provided by the agency yesterday showed widespread failure by the companies to report the number of stops made by collection trucks.

The percentage of unreported stops ranged from a low of 9 percent of all stops on a Manhattan route to a high of almost 90 percent of all stops on a Brooklyn route. A typical route was Route No. 1 in Queens, where 16 different carting companies were observed making 274 stops, but 113 of those stops were not reported to the Department of Consumer Affairs. The department refused to identify the individual trucking companies, citing the confidentiality of the tax investigation by the Department of Finance. The department also refused to reveal the exact location of the specific routes because of the possibility that would lead to public identification of the companies, department spokesman Gary Walker said.

Referrals are made to the Department of Finance when we uncover unreported stops, which may translate into underreporting of income and failure to pay taxes, Walker said. Aponte was out of the city yesterday, but his top assistant, Peter Lempin, said the main reasons for a company not to report a stop are poor recordkeeping, laziness or a desire to hide income from taxes. Youve got some with bad records, but I think some do it for tax-evasion reasons, Lempin said. Neither Lempin nor Finance Department spokeswoman Claire Tallarico would offer an estimate about how widespread they thought the tax evasion was. An attorney for the private carting, Howard Druckman, said.

the. Rich, Rowdy Lifestyles NEWSDAY, FRIDAY, TRIAL from Page 5 holding out his hand in her direction. She broke down in tears. Linda Smeets is charged with one count of third-degree assault. If convicted, she faces up to one year in jail, a $1,000 fine or both.

Smeets and his wife married on Oct. 3, 1985, four years after he met her at a Washington, D.C., nightclub where she was a burlesque dancer, according to 5 Linda Smeets attorney, John Rieck. Reick also said Chris to ffel Smeets is seeking to annul the marriage his second and her third to avoid paying her $50,000 annually as specified in IO their prenuptial agreement. Smeets is charging that his wife never told him that she allegedly had been a prostitute before they married, according to Rieck. The trial continues today.

JUNE 3, 1988 marriages: a son, 19, and twin daughters, 14. Of the slashing Smeets said that he suffered a lVfe-inch cut on his right hand that took eight stitches to dose. On cross-examination, Smeets admitted he had an ivory-handled dagger next to him on the couch during the argument in the couples 20th-floor apartment at 240 E. 47th St. Smeets also said that, on the next night, his wife came to the Westchester hotel where he had moved after her arrest.

The two then traveled to Europe together. Smeets told the court his wife had removed the stitches from his hand for When asked to point her Smeetp refused to St her, simply Mttu: Ml 4 I I i tv.