Word: furino
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shares the view of some police officials that his son was murdered because the report fingered him as a Government witness. Others are convinced that he was slain by fellow mobsters in a business dispute. Nat Masselli was the second Donovan witness murdered during the probe. In June, Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman who was alleged to have received payoffs from Schiavone, was found dead in the trunk of a car in Manhattan...
...hijacking, to a Manhattan jail in preparation for his appearance before a grand jury investigating new charges against Donovan. The FBI is looking into the Masselli assassination as a possible obstruction of justice. It is the FBI's second such probe. Last June, the body of Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman who was alleged to have received payoffs from Schiavone Construction and who became a Silverman witness, was found stuffed into the trunk of a car parked on a Manhattan street...
...Silverman report suggests that Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman whose body was found in an abandoned car on June 11 in New York City, may have been murdered because of his role in the Donovan probe. Furino flunked a lie-detector test on April 27, when he claimed that he had never collected any payoffs from Donovan. He later made two appearances before the grand jury investigating Donovan. On June 2 Silverman subpoenaed John DiGilio, Furino's superior in the Genovese family, to appear before the grand jury as well. The next day Furino vanished. Silverman's report...
...investigator, of course, contends that Donovan has had anything to do with violence. But the murder of Furino does suggest that certain racketeers consider the Donovan probe a most serious matter. TIME has learned that some of the mobsters involved in the Donovan investigation are also named in a 1980 FBI report on the "Provenzano crime group." The 60-page document was used by the FBI to place a court-sanctioned wiretap on telephones available to Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, a New Jersey Teamster boss and Mafia captain, in California's Lompoc federal prison...
...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...