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Federal Investigators are not yet certain why Fred Furino, 52, an important witness in Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe into Donovan's alleged ties to the Mafia, was murdered. His decaying body, with at least one bullet wound in the head, was found in a car abandoned in New York City. A career gangster, Furino had been intensively questioned by Silverman's investigators and called before a federal grand jury hearing Silverman's witnesses. The investigators suspect that other mobsters feared that Furino had been cooperating with federal officials. Furino may not have been...
...Furino was potentially a key witness because FBI informants had claimed that he sometimes collected payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s, when Donovan was a vice president in charge of labor relations for New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. FBI agents quizzed Furino in January 1981, when Donovan's confirmation hearings were under way in the Senate, but he denied ever having met Donovan and offered to take a he detector test...
When Silverman began his inquiry a year later, he took Furino up on the polygraph offer. Furino still denied knowing Donovan. But officials say Furino flunked the test-and not just once. "Freddie took a dive six times," claims one investigator. Whether Furino also denied any acquaintance with Donovan in his grand jury testimony has not been revealed. But he disappeared from his New Jersey trucking company office shortly afterward, on June...
...Silverman's request, the FBI opened an inquiry into whether the killing of Furino amounted to an obstruction of justice. Furino's violent end made the earlier anonymous death threats received by Frank Silbey, chief investigator for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, all the more ominous. Silbey had been warned to "lay off the Donovan investigation" or he would "end up in a pine...
...TENTATIVE STARTING LINE-UPS DEFENSE 71 Dave Lindstrom LE 84 Russ Savage 78 Pete Krynicki LT 74 Charlie Kaye 70 Mike DeGenova MG 35 Lou Bernieri 66 Sam Stepney RT 77 Steve Kaseta 58 Mitch McKeller RE 91 Bob Baggott 57 Tony Danckert LB 30 Joe Jason 51 Tom Furino LB 55 Tommy Joyce 30 Jerome Easton LCB 23 Bill Emper 14 Bruce Rich S 17 Paul Halas 5 Mike Slaughter ADJ 18 Lou Rice 24 Frank Nigro RCB 41 Andy Puopolo