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...claims that Schiavone had done business with racketeers, but contended that it could not determine whether the charges were true or false. Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department informed the committee that federal agents had been bugging the offices and tapping the telephones of one such mobster, William Masselli, for seven months before Donovan's confirmation. What the official eavesdroppers overheard would surely have been of interest to the Senators...
TIME has learned that the recordings establish a strong link between Donovan's company and Masselli, whom the FBI describes as "a self-admitted soldier" in the Genovese Mafia family. Although he had virtually no expertise in the construction business, Masselli nevertheless in 1976 muscled a longtime acquaintance, Louis Nargi, out of control of a company that was helping Schiavone excavate subway tunnels in Long Island City and Manhattan. The takeover was a typical Mob operation. Nargi had run into unexpectedly difficult excavation problems, which made his subcontracting work for Schiavone more expensive than he could handle. He made...
...Masselli did so in the name of a company he created in 1976 called Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp. Masselli became president of Jo-Pel. Joseph L. Galiber, a Bronx Democrat who is still a New York state senator, was vice president. Masselli put $3,600 into forming the company, and Galiber invested $3,800. In the past four years, their firm was paid more than $8 million on its contract work for Donovan's firm...
Perhaps not in New Jersey, but court-sanctioned wiretaps of Masselli's operations in New York City did indeed record conversations between Masselli and Donovan. Mullen says he did not volunteer this information because disclosure would have compromised the investigation into Masselli's activities, and the recorded conversations were "non-criminal and related to business." Masselli has been charged with running a meat hijacking ring and conspiring to manufacture synthetic drugs...
...Frank Sinatra, at a country club owned by Schiavone Construction. Co-host of the event was Insurance Executive William McCann, who has been appointed Ambassador to Ireland. During the campaign, Reagan attended a rally with Donovan at a New York City site where Schiavone Construction, with the help of Masselli's Jo-Pel Contracting, was working on a new midtown subway tunnel. A source familiar with the construction project told TIME that Donovan introduced Masselli and another man indicted with him, Joseph Bugliarelli, to Reagan. Says a spokeswoman for Donovan: "No introduction was made to the President that...