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Donovan and nine assorted co-defendants stood accused of grand larceny, as well as 125 counts of falsifying business documents and eleven counts of filing phony papers with government agencies. The purpose and end result, according to an indictment handed up by a Bronx grand jury, was to defraud the New York City Transit Authority of some $8 million on a $ 186 million subway contract awarded to New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. in 1978. At the time, Donovan was executive vice president and one of two controlling stockholders in the firm. He is the first Cabinet member ever...
Apparently feeling that his long ordeal was about over, Donovan struck a defiant note two weeks ago after a four-hour grilling before a grand jury in The Bronx in New York City. The jurors had been looking into Schiavone's subway work at the request of Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola, a four-term Democrat. Donovan claimed that the jury was doing nothing more than "a rehash" of "the baseless allegations" that Silverman had investigated. It was all "a witch hunt," he said. The Labor Secretary said he had hired independent experts to give him lie-detector tests...
Inspired partly by Kung Fu movies and African dance styles, black and Hispanic teen-agers invented breaking more than ten years ago in New York City's South Bronx. Its name, some say, came from the percussive instrumental break in soul-music songs. The dance caught the fancy of the press about two years ago and was propelled into fame by music videos and such recent films as Breakin ', which earned $36 million, and Beat Street ($16 million). Breakin' has sold more than a million copies, and music to break by continues to sizzle on the charts...
What, other than Silicon Valley garages, has made millionaires out of 1,144 Americans over the past two decades? The answer is state lotteries, which for three straight months have set record payouts for North America. In July a retired Bronx carpenter won $20 million in the New York State lottery, and in August eight players shared a purse of $24.6 million in the Ohio Lotto. Last week a Chicago printer, Michael Wittkowski, 28, claimed sole possession of a $40 million prize that had built up in the Illinois state lottery...
...preschool that was shut down last November; seven teachers were indicted on 207 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse. The prosecutor charged last week that one of the defendants drugged a seven-year-old boy to make him sexually compliant. Such horrific tales are becoming depressingly familiar. Said Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola: "This kind of child abuse has been going on for a long time...