Metro

Rotten apples in NYC trash biz

Something stinks in the trash-hauling business.

Three local companies are being investigated for alleged indiscretions ranging from operating without licenses to withholding information about possible criminal ties on city applications, a source revealed.

Infinity Plus, CI Contracting and El Camino could be shut down by the city Business Integrity Commission as a result.

Infinity Plus is owned by Kim Gibbs, 53, of Harlem. He was jailed in 1992 for one of the most widespread subway-token counterfeiting scams in city history. He served six years in prison.

Gibbs led “The Ministry,” a gang that made and sold thousands of brass “slugs,” which went for 50 cents each and could be dropped into turnstiles for a fraction of the legal fare.

He has been running a one-man, one-van business since 2001, but without a license, BIC records revealed. After being cited by BIC in 2009, Gibbs tried to register in 2010.

“I’m just trying to live,” he told The Post.

Bronx-based CI Contracting is also operating without BIC approval, records show.

One of its principals, Bernardino Esposito, co-owned Espo Construction, which was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine in the horrific 1998 death of a 16-year-old Brooklyn girl.

Espo admitted it was reckless in securing the construction site at PS 131. The victim, Yan Zhen Zhao, was hit by a falling brick and died.

“The [School Construction Authority] was responsible for the safety,” Esposito said Friday.

El Camino, of Staten Island, allegedly operated illegally for years, the source said.

One of its principals, Peter Ammirati, worked for the Berlin Wrecking Co., which was prosecuted for illegal dumping in Queens, the source said.

“I had nothing to do with that,” Ammirati said.

mgartland@nypost.com