The Department of Parks is involved in talks with a business that has possible ties to organized crime, a letter released by the city’s comptroller said yesterday.

In January of last year, the city chose East Coast Golf for a $9.6 million, 20-year contract to renovate, maintain, and operate Marine Park Golf Course in Brooklyn. East Coast Golf is led by Domenick Logozzo, who has lent money to Craig Marino, a reputed Colombo family soldier, according to federal court papers filed in March.

Marino was indicted on federal racketeering charges for defrauding investors of more than $20 million in a scheme by which cheap stocks were sold at high prices by Mafia-controlled brokerage firms, court papers say.

A lawyer for Marino didn’t return phone calls yesterday, and Mr. Logozzo could not be reached at home or at his business. The numbers listed for East Coast Golf are disconnected.

Comptroller William Thompson Jr., said in the letter the Department of Parks likely had no knowledge of Mr. Logozzo’s connection to Marino, but recommended that the parks commissioner, Adrian Benepe, “seriously reconsider moving forward with this agreement.”

A Department of Parks spokesman, Warner Johnson, said the department complied with all legal requirements in issuing the contract. He said the contract stands, but “as would be our standard operating procedure, we will refer it to the appropriate city agencies: the Department of Investigation and Law Department.”