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Donovan and six top executives of Schiavone, including its chairman, Ronald Schiavone, 59, were charged with grand larceny in this scheme. Together, Donovan and Schiavone own about 90% of the company's stock. Also charged with fraud were Masselli, 57, and Galiber, 59. The alleged "theft," in Merola's view, was from the Transit Authority and the Federal Government...
...intra-Mafia dispute was settled in Masselli's favor in a Bonanno-Genovese "sitdown." But Frascone continued to object, and Masselli ordered him killed, according to last week's indictments. The admitted killer was Mike Orlando, a former grade school teacher who had switched to an exciting and dangerous double vocation: he was Masselli's top bodyguard and an FBI informer. Now a protected federal witness in other cases, Orlando claims he shot Frascone on Sept. 22, 1978, after the victim was fingered for him in The Bronx by Joe ("Bugs") Bugliarelli, a local bookie. The getaway...
According to the D.A.'s office, Masselli moved aggressively to take over the subcontracts from Nargi's old company. U.S. law requires that any contractor receiving a federal public works grant must award 10% of the business to minority-owned companies. Since some 80% of Schiavone's $186 million contract to extend a subway under the East River was federally financed, the Schiavone company needed to find a so-called MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) to do part of the work. Thus Masselli set up the Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Co. and claimed that at least...
...prosecution charges that Masselli and Galiber conspired with top Schiavone executives, including Donovan, to inflate the value of work that Jo-Pel claimed to be doing on the subway project. One tactic, Merola claims, was for Jo-Pel to bill Schiavone more than $90,000 a month for "renting" tunnel-digging equipment that Donovan's company let Jo-Pel use free of charge. Schiavone officials passed these bogus rental bills along to the New York City Transit Authority, which then paid Schiavone. In all, Schiavone collected some $12 million for work it claimed that Jo-Pel had done...
...trail of evidence on the alleged scheme had begun in 1978, when the double-dealing Orlando told his FBI contacts in New York about Masselli's Mob connections and his operations. With this information, the New York agents on Jan. 4,1979, got a court order to bug conversations and tap telephones at Masselli's meat-packing warehouse in The Bronx. Over six months this produced 892 tape recordings. The mobsters talked about Jo-Pel, the Frascone murder and Democratic officials in New York City and Albany who, they claimed, were corrupt. Donovan was mentioned in various contexts...