Former new York City Buildings Commissioner and onetime political candidate Eric Ulrich spent nearly $40,000 in campaign funds….some of it from the city’s fund to finance candudates… at several food businesses with past reported links to the Gambino family
On January 5, 2022 Ulrich was named as Senior Advisor to the Mayor by New York City Mayor Eric Adams.[34] On May 3, 2022, Ulrich was appointed as commissioner of the NYC Department of Buildings.
On Nov. 1, 2022 Investigators working for the Manhattan district attorney seized Ulrich's phone pursuant to a search warrant. The investigation centers around an illegal gambling ring, but Ulrich has not been charged with a crime.
On November 3, Ulrich resigned from his position as commissioner of the Buildings Department. after having racked up unpaid debts at mob-controlled gambling parlors.
But “[Ulrich] owed a lot of money to a lot of people — a lot of big people,” a Queens source said.
He spent $14,167 at Villa Russo — an old favorite of former Gambino boss John Gotti — and listed the expense as related to fundraising.
He also spent more than $5,000 at Aldo’s, a Howard Beach pizzeria, for a fundraising event and “campaign food.”
The grandson of Aldo’s owner Aldo Calore was once busted by cops for torching a Mercedes-Benz driven by the owner of a competing pizza shop in a feud over $1,300 in catering business and caught himself on fire in the process.
Gino Gabrielli, told cops at the time he had burned himself cooking chicken.

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