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...school teacher who had switched to an exciting and dangerous double vocation: he was Masselli's top bodyguard and an FBI informer. Now a protected federal witness in other cases, Orlando claims he shot Frascone on Sept. 22, 1978, after the victim was fingered for him in The Bronx by Joe ("Bugs") Bugliarelli, a local bookie. The getaway car, Orlando contends, was driven by Masselli. Both Bugliarelli and Masselli were charged last week with the murder. Orlando, the state's key witness, has been granted immunity from prosecution...
...Schiavone company needed to find a so-called MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) to do part of the work. Thus Masselli set up the Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Co. and claimed that at least 51% of it was owned by Joseph Galiber, a black state senator from The Bronx. Merola's evidence shows that Galiber, while drawing a $700 weekly salary as Jo-Pel's president, had no equity in the company...
...double-dealing Orlando told his FBI contacts in New York about Masselli's Mob connections and his operations. With this information, the New York agents on Jan. 4,1979, got a court order to bug conversations and tap telephones at Masselli's meat-packing warehouse in The Bronx. Over six months this produced 892 tape recordings. The mobsters talked about Jo-Pel, the Frascone murder and Democratic officials in New York City and Albany who, they claimed, were corrupt. Donovan was mentioned in various contexts at least six times. The references to Donovan were mostly casual or vague...
Silverman interviewed Orlando but apparently doubted his credibility. Edward McDonald, chief of a federal strike force that had been unable to gain access to the tapes, decided to turn Orlando over to Merola. By then, the Bronx D.A. had secured convictions of two gangsters in the slaying of Masselli's son Nat, who had been cooperating with Silverman. At the 1983 trial, Bronx Assistant District Attorney Martin Fisher claimed that young Masselli had been killed in order "to help and protect" the Schiavone company and Donovan...
...court order for the Masselli tapes early this year, but was stalled for months by the FBI before getting them. In the New York FBI office, Walton admitted barring his agents from talking to Merola's staff. At least one agent was disciplined for giving information to the Bronx investigators anyway. FBI headquarters last week ordered an internal investigation into the way its New York office had handled the Masselli wiretap evidence. Despite the lack of FBI assistance, Bronx Detectives Michael Geary and Lawrence Doherty finally put together the case that the feds had declined to make...