Word: masselli
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...confirmation hearings began, the FBI received information indicating that a Donovan associate in New Jersey was also involved in the alleged Mafia connection with the Schiavone firm. The man's voice was often heard on wiretaps made by the FBI on an admitted Mafia member, William Masselli. The Donovan associate was named on an internal FBI memo recounting information that the bureau claims to have orally summarized to Fielding. Yet when this information was later given to the Senate committee, the identity of the businessman was deleted...
...bugs and wiretaps placed by the FBI in a windowless Bronx warehouse recorded a sordid tale of dealings between New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. and a subcontracting firm run by William Masselli, a soldier in the Genovese Mafia clan. But the FBI did not bring up these taps during the confirmation hearings last year of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, who was a vice president and part owner of Schiavone, even though Donovan's name came up in the recorded conversations. FBI Director William Webster last week sought to shift the blame for this lapse away from...
However, the FBI was responsible for steering members of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee away from the Masselli recordings during the confirmation hearings. "The judgment was made that we should not volunteer information," said Webster. At one point during the hearings, Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah asked about a Manhattan grand jury that was investigating Masselli. Francis Mullen, who was then executive assistant director of the FBI, indicated that the probe involved a different case...
...evidence, contained in FBI wiretaps, indicated that Donovan had attended a social affair with William Masselli, an admitted Mafia family member. Fielding told TIME that the information was not identified as coming from a wiretap, and he thus regarded it as "just another allegation." FBI records, however, show that Fielding was told the evidence came from a "tape recording...
Although the FBI wiretaps on Masselli ended in 1979, voluminous files on them remain in the Justice Department, which supervises the FBI. Whether anyone in the department informed Attorney General William French Smith about the wiretap references to Donovan is not known. In retrospect, it is evident that someone should have done...