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...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...
...Sally Field), a 34-year-old bungling reporter who is handed a story by the head of an FBI task force out to break Miami's organized crime ring in any way he can. Meghan obligingly reports the story, implicating honest longshoreman Mike Gallagher (Paul Newman) in a Jimmy Hoffa-esque murder. As she presses further, Meghan is fed stories by Gallagher's childhood buddy Teresa (Melinda Dillon) and eventually by Gallagher himself, each of which she prints in an ostensible effort to be fair. The point is clear enough: Each story Meghan writes is accurate...
...regularly with the agents in Washington, Miami, Cleveland and Las Vegas. They hoped to arrange "targets of exchange"-people that the Government could prosecute instead of themselves or their cronies. These turned out to be Fitzsimmons' enemies. Three whose names occur in the agents' reports were Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president whom Nixon had just released from prison on condition that he take no part in running the union until 1980; Harold Gibbons, a Hoffa loyalist who was boss of the Teamsters in St. Louis; and Jay Sarno, who had built two Las Vegas casino hotels with...
...finally got a look at the Daley-Dennis reports in 1978, after an anonymous tipster informed the agency that Fitzsimmons and the Pressers had been seen with the IRS agents. The tipster also hinted that the conversations might have had something to do with Hoffa, who disappeared in 1975 and is presumed to have been murdered. The FBI then began an investigation, about six years too late. By then the statute of limitations had expired, so nobody mentioned in the Daley-Dennis reports could be prosecuted anyway...
Some FBI agents nonetheless wanted to convene a grand jury in the hope that under oath some of the people named in the IRS reports might yield clues to Hoffa's fate. The Justice Department turned them down. Says one FBI agent: "Can you imagine the scene? Fitzsimmons, the Pressers, White House aides, Nixon Administration officials all trooping in; questions about Teamster campaign contributions and 'exchange targets'-it would have been a replay of Watergate. Nobody in the department wanted that." So the FBI investigation wound up last year without results, and the contents of the Daley...