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Never passed along to the committee, for example, was an FBI report that "one source indicates the upper management of the Schiavone Construction Co. [where Donovan was a vice president] is closely aligned with the Vito Genovese family of L.C.N. [La Cosa Nostra]." It named the company official, who was not Donovan, allegedly providing this Mafia tie. This report was initialed by two top FBI officials, Francis Mullen and Charles P. Monroe. Both appeared at the confirmation hearings, but report told the committee of this alleged Mafia connection...
...confirmation hearings. The FBI did warn Fred Fielding, a Reagan transition aide handling background checks on Cabinet nominees. In a written report following up telephone calls to Fielding, the FBI told him that it had corroborated information that Donovan had "close personal and business ties with known La Cosa Nostra figures." Neither Fielding, who is now the White House Counsel, nor anyone on the transition team nor the FBI gave this report to the Senate committee at that time...
Made in America seems at first blush an odd title for a novel about the Mafia, but Peter Maas should be forgiven his irony. Sicily's best-known export has, of course, become as American as frozen pizza. As Maas has shown in The Valachi Papers and Serpico, Cosa Nostra reaches far below the imperial realms of The Godfather into virtually every working-class neighborhood where cash is short and the Mob's loan sharks cruise...
...official. TIME has learned that the manuscript reflects Bonanno's scorn for the Mafia's current commissioners, scalawags who were mere car thieves and moonshiners when Bonanno and four others established the Mafia ruling commission in 1931. They are unworthy of association with a royal Bonanno, writes Cosa Nostra's foremost snob, who claims to have had an audience with a Pope and a handshake with President Roosevelt...
They usually don't sing in the Cosa Nostra, so who would expect an entire opêra bouffe-from one of the godfathers no less? That's pretty much what Arizona agents orchestrated at the modest ranch house of Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonanno, 74, in Tucson. For three years and more, undercover snoopers sniffed Bonanno's garbage and found enough evidence to obtain an indictment against Bonanno last week for conspiracy to obstruct justice. In a basement closet they also discovered a 250-page life story, detailing Bonanno's rise to leadership...