This home at 160 Winsor Rd., Johnston, is listed with the secretary of state’s office as the address for Falcon Maintenance Co., one of the contractors that employed the detained workers.

The Providence Journal / Bill Murphy

TriState Enterprises and Falcon Maintenance Co. LLC, the two companies whose employees were arrested in Tuesday’s immigration raids, have landed at least 45 other janitorial contracts across state government, according to a summary released by the Carcieri administration last night.

Those include the main state office building on Smith Hill, the attorney general’s office, two state Division of Motor Vehicles offices, the Board of Elections, the North Main Street Armory, the state’s command readiness facility and the state’s emergency telecommunications system, E-911.

TriState Enterprises is located at 1270 Mineral Spring Ave. in North Providence. Anthony E. DeSimone Jr. is president and chief executive, and David A. Civetti is vice president.

The listed address of Falcon Maintenance Co. LLC is 160 Winsor Ave. in Johnston. As a limited liability corporation, Falcon Maintenance is not required to list its principals, but the company’s 2007 annual report lists Vincent D’Elia Jr. as a contact and George M. Capello as the registered agent. Capello yesterday declined to name any of the principals.

According to its company Web Site, Tristate Enterprises provides “highly skilled janitorial cleaning services for offices, retail, leisure, healthcare, educational, and residential facilities. Our people are well-trained professionals who are both bonded and insured.” Several of its numerous clients include municipal office buildings, universities, schools, daycare centers and funeral parlors.

This is not the first time Tri-State Enterprises and its co-owner — Anthony DeSimone — have been in the news.

One brother is state Rep. John DeSimone, the Providence Democrat who waged an unsuccessful bid for House Speaker in 2004. Their father practiced law with the late Joseph A. Bevilacqua, a former chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Another brother was former Senate Majority Leader John Bevilacqua’s legal counsel at the State House.

A year ago, TriState figured in a Department of Business Regulation report about the extent to which former executives at Beacon Mutual Insurance Co. played politics in an attempt to “buy votes” at the State House, including preferential treatment of a company connected to a lawmaker.

The report questioned, for example, whether a decision to discontinue collection efforts of $229,000 owed by a janitorial-services company was “politically motivated.”

Representative DeSimone acknowledged then that TriState Enterprises was represented by his brother Thomas, and employed his other brother, Anthony. But he denied that the money was written off.

He said the issue was enmeshed in a lawsuit by Beacon to recover the money, which involves a dispute over whether TriState uses employees or independent contractors. He also said he had no involvement in the cases.

A Beacon spokesman said that the insurer’s new leadership subsequently revived the collection efforts last year, and also referred the prior management’s handling of both companies to the authorities.

Yesterday afternoon, the governor’s spokeswoman Amy Kempe said the Carcieri administration has neither information about, nor documentation of the two companies’ contracts with the judiciary because they emanated from a separate branch of government. Court spokesman Craig Berke said no information was immediately available.

But shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday, the Carcieri administration released its summary of other state contracts held by Falcon and TriState Enterprises. In all, TriState has — or has had — at least 27 contracts, and Falcon, at least 18, with the status of at least three other contracts uncertain.

The Department of Administration responded to the question of how much the two companies are being paid in total under the contracts, by stating, “A report on the annual spending has been requested and will be provided as soon as it is ready.”

Asked if other companies were allowed to bid, the administration did not respond.

In response to the question — how long have each of the suspected illegal immigrants worked in state government — the document provided by Administration Director Jerome Williams and acting state purchasing agent Lorraine Hynes said: ‘Please contact vendor.’

The administrators said they do not maintain information on how many workers the two companies have placed across state government and how much they are paid.

Only one question drew a detailed response. Asked when the governor believed these companies were first required to check the immigration status of their employees, the written response said: “Since May 15, 2008, the Department of Administration, division of purchases, has required that a person … submitting a bid/solicitation response seeking to do business with the state, shall … certify that they have registered and utilize the E-Verify program for all newly hired employees.

“Vendors are not required to report their findings to the state,” but since the 1980s, federal law requires that employers document that their employees are authorized to work in the United States.”

Officials did not elaborate on the law cited, or whether it will require them to sever ties with the two janitorial companies in light of Tuesday’s arrests.

— With reports from staff writer Edward Fitzpatrick

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