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...report names Furino, Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio and Ralph Picardo as members of Provenzano's group. It contends that Provenzano and Briguglio helped murder former Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa in 1975. Picardo is now a federal witness who contends that he had collected payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s to arrange labor peace and had turned the cash over to Briguglio. Other FBI informants claim that Furino sometimes picked up such payments from Donovan. Briguglio was the victim of a gangland slaying in New York City in 1978 because, according to an informant, "Provenzano said that he had found...
According to a summary of information previously suppressed by the FBI but disclosed by the Senate committee, an unnamed informant told federal agents that Donovan had "socialized on a regular basis with Salvatore ['Sally Bugs'] Briguglio," a Mafia hitman slain by other mobsters in 1978. Briguglio was able to learn about low bids received by various city and state agencies in New Jersey, and allegedly passed the information to Donovan. Contended the informant, as reported in the committee document: "Briguglio received payoffs from Donovan for his assistance in obtaining the contracts...
...released a summary of the uncovered FBI information late last week. It included allegations by an informant in Newark that Donovan, when he was executive vice president in charge of labor relations for Schiavone Construction Co., was a friend and traveling companion of New Jersey Gangster Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio. The informant said Briguglio, in return for payoffs, gave Donovan information about low bids on Government construction contracts, which he learned of through Government contacts, so that Donovan could underbid. At his confirmation hearings, Donovan three times denied ever meeting Briguglio, the victim of a Mob execution in 1978. Another...
...Jersey construction firm to a corrupt union official in 1977. In addition, TIME has learned that investigators are looking into the possibility of perjury in Donovan's testimony at his confirmation hearing, when he claimed he had never met New Jersey Gangster Salvatore (Sally Bugs) Briguglio...
...told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee that Mobster Ralph Picardo had claimed to have received regular payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s for labor peace. Picardo had testified for the Government to help convict several Teamsters Union officials of racketeering. According to the FBI Picardo contended that Briguglio, a victim of a mob execution in 1978, had shared these payoffs. When asked about this at his Senate hearings, Donovan denied giving any bribes, called Picardo "murdering slime" and testified three times that he had never even met Briguglio. Because the FBI reported that it could not verify Picardo...