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...back of his head and fired a single shot. The Continental swung out of control and smashed into a parked car. The assassin jumped out and climbed into a trailing red Buick LeSabre, which then sped away. But the victim happened to be Nat Masselli, 31, son of Mobster William ("Billy the Butcher") Masselli, 55. And that made the hit something special...
Federal investigators have hoped that the Massellis could shed Light on fresh charges that Donovan had met with the elder Masselli and another mobster, Albert ("Chink") Facchiano, in Miami in January 1979 to discuss a complex and illegal financial skimming scheme. Donovan has denied knowing Facchiano and has said he encountered Masselli only a few times at job sites...
...followed this path, though, he got into trouble. The FBI taped the young naval officer's wartime dalliance with a European beauty-contest winner who had Nazi connections. In the White House, another affair put him in worse jeopardy. His partner, Judith Campbell (later Exner), was also seeing Mobster Sam Giancana, whom the CIA was trying to enlist in a plot to kill Castro...
Just before Donovan was confirmed in February, the FBI told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee that Mobster Ralph Picardo had claimed to have received regular payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s for labor peace. Picardo had testified for the Government to help convict several Teamsters Union officials of racketeering. According to the FBI Picardo contended that Briguglio, a victim of a mob execution in 1978, had shared these payoffs. When asked about this at his Senate hearings, Donovan denied giving any bribes, called Picardo "murdering slime" and testified three times that he had never even met Briguglio. Because...
...about various 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...