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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan Administration plans to shift enforcement efforts from the smaller dealers to the major traffickers. Spearheading the drive is Francis ("Bud") Mullen, former FBI executive assistant director, who this month was put in charge of the DEA. He hopes to use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statute, the FBI'S favorite tool against organized crime, to confiscate drug-trade profits. One way of locating these gains is through stricter enforcement of the 1970 Bank Secrecy Act, which requires banks to disclose deposits that exceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinforcements in the Drug War | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...Says Mullen: "If we can marry the DEA's street savvy with the FBI's talents and its 1,100 accountants-and bring in the Internal Revenue Service as well-then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reinforcements in the Drug War | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

Matching parents, pupils and pedagogues-for a fee Paul Kingsolver, 15, was falling behind his tenth-grade class at Denver's Mullen High School, an expensive ($1,650 a year) Roman Catholic boys' school. His worried parents took him to Educational Counselor Elizabeth Carroll, a reading and speech specialist at an agency called the Academic Resources Center. "We found out," says Paul's father, "that he had missed a lot of the basics in grade school." Carroll recommended that he switch temporarily to Denver's Academic Prep School, which specializes in remedial work. "Now Paul likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Pick a Private School | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...president of Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., which was a subcontractor for Schiavone. At Donovan's confirmation hearings, the FBI mentioned his alleged connections with Masselli, but shed little light on them. "I do not have any background whatsoever on him," Executive Assistant FBI Director Francis Mullen told the Senate committee. He added that there was "no reference" to Donovan in FBI wiretaps used to monitor organized crime "in New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Company? | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Company? | 6/8/1981 | See Source »

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