Six corrupt Manhattan construction companies and eight executives were charged Tuesday in a lucrative scheme in which city and state contracts were diverted from deserving businesses owned by minorities and women. “The common factor in all of these schemes is simple — greed at all costs,” Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in announcing the charges of pervasive fraud and corruption at a news conference. “When the field is rigged, law-abiding companies and legitimate minority and women-owned businesses are cheated out of much-needed contracts,” he added.

Fraud, bribes, business stolen from women- and minority-owned companies — those are among the crimes outlined in six Manhattan indictments.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unveiled on Tuesday the indictment of eight people and six companies in what he called a wide-ranging construction industry fraud scheme.