Word: mullens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...management of the Schiavone Construction Co. [where Donovan was a vice president] is closely aligned with the Vito Genovese family of L.C.N. [La Cosa Nostra]." It named the company official, who was not Donovan, allegedly providing this Mafia tie. This report was initialed by two top FBI officials, Francis Mullen and Charles P. Monroe. Both appeared at the confirmation hearings, but report told the committee of this alleged Mafia connection...
...Labor and Human Resources Committee away from the Masselli recordings during the confirmation hearings. "The judgment was made that we should not volunteer information," said Webster. At one point during the hearings, Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch of Utah asked about a Manhattan grand jury that was investigating Masselli. Francis Mullen, who was then executive assistant director of the FBI, indicated that the probe involved a different case...
...week that his committee will pursue the Donovan case as soon as Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman concludes his investigation of the Labor Secretary. Hatch and the committee's ranking Democrat, Edward Kennedy, have persuaded the Senate Judiciary Committee (of which both are also members) to delay confirmation of Mullen to his new post as head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. This time they want all the information before a final vote is taken...
...Mullen had told the Senators flatly that "there is no information available to the FBI which indicates that" Donovan or his Schiavone Construction Co. were "mobbed up." At the time, many committee members were skeptical, and Mullen admits his testimony may have been too "positive" and "sweeping." With last week's more serious claims that Mullen chose not to ferret out more damaging allegations against Donovan, a new congressional inquiry may be in the offing. Says Missouri Democrat Thomas Eagleton, a member of the Labor and Human Resources Committee: "The aroma is so pungent that I think there will...
...even keener interest than Mullen's role is why the White House agreed to the curtailment of the FBI's probe of Donovan. The day before the Labor Secretary's confirmation hearings began, an FBI official telephoned Fielding and informed him of "a tape recording" linking Donovan socially with "hoodlums." Fielding insists that he passed along all important information to his superiors, but says the White House was not fazed by the unsubstantiated charges. Counters one senior presidential adviser: "Fred was the only one directly in touch with the FBI investigation...