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...subway contract awarded in 1978 to the Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J. At the time, Donovan was executive vice president and one of two controlling stockholders in the firm. Donovan tried to have his indictment dismissed, partly on the ground that it was politically motivated. The head prosecutor, Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola, is a four-term Democrat. Merola last week called Donovan's complaints of political bias "ludicrous...
Merola claims that he gained significant evidence against Donovan and the other defendants from a 1979 FBI wiretap on the telephone at Masselli's Bronx meat-packing warehouse. In 1981, after Donovan had faced confirmation by the Senate as Labor Secretary, the FBI advised the lawmakers about his alleged organized crime connections but for some reason did not mention the incriminating wiretap. Nor did the FBI reveal that it was aware, as the Senate considered Donovan's qualifications, that "possibly fraudulent schemes" to hike minority participation in the Schiavone subway work had been disclosed by the recorded conversations. The bureau...
...Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal was left open around the clock to accommodate the homeless on cold winter nights, commuters complained of being hassled and one man was found dead of head injuries. The terminal is now closed from 1:30 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. And in The Bronx three weeks ago, three men living at a shelter for the homeless were charged with kidnaping a doctor and torturing him for an hour before leaving him for dead along a parkway...
Shinagel, a classmate and friend of Glauber's from the first graduating class of the Bronx High School of Science in New York, liked the idea, despite its financial logistics...
Sure, footballs do get tossed around in the Bronx, and warm weekend afternoons are reserved for softball. But even on the hottest slimmer days there's basketball, neighborhood playground basketball...