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...executions normally go unpunished. But the work of New York detectives and Bronx County prosecutors produced a conviction last week in the killing of a federal witness. The team did what the FBI and Justice Department had failed to do: show that Nat Masselli, 31, had been slain last year in an effort to impede a federal investigation into allegations that Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan had ties to organized crime...
...York-area Mafiosi had expected Masselli to testify in Special Federal Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe of Donovan's activities as an executive of New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. Nat worked for his father William, 56, a convicted hijacker who owned an excavating firm that had subcontracts with Donovan's firm. Testimony in the Bronx County trial showed that Salvatore Odierno, 68, and Phil Buono, 68, Mafia soldiers, had met Nat Masselli last August to talk him out of cooperating with Silverman...
...Labor Committee noted a number of specific allegations that the FBI did not pass along to the Senate. These included: six mentions of Donovan picked up by wire taps on the telephone of William Masselli, a reputed member of the Genovese crime family in New York; references to Schiavone Construction in the agency's files on the disappearance of former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa; and reports from FBI informants that Donovan and Schiavone may have had ties to organized crime through the firm's dealings with the Big J Trucking...
...Secretary's accusers were anonymous. The names of two witnesses were disclosed in the report released by Silverman at the end of Phase 1: William Masselli, a Genovese crime-family member who headed a firm that subcontracted for Schiavone, and his son Nat. Shortly after the investigation was reopened, Nat Masselli was murdered in New York City. TIME has learned that William Masselli shares the view of some police officials that his son was murdered because the report fingered him as a Government witness. Others are convinced that he was slain by fellow mobsters in a business dispute...
...Silverman was packing up his records, he received fresh allegations from the Justice Department that Donovan had met in Miami with William Masselli and Albert ("Chink") Facchiano, a convicted loan shark and former captain in the Genovese clan, to set up no-show jobs for mobsters on Schiavone construction sites. In mid-July, Silverman reopened his investigation, determined to dig deeper into the alleged links between the Genovese family and Schiavone. In his first probe, he had questioned the elder Masselli and Buono, who is reputed to be a Genovese captain; Silverman decided to interrogate them again, and also...