Word: pel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Donovan served as executive vice president before his Cabinet appointment, had defrauded the New York City Transit Authority of $7.4 million on a contract to construct a subway tunnel. Schiavone was obliged to give 10% of the work to a minority-owned enterprise. The enterprise it chose was Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Corp., a firm set up by New York State Senator Joseph Galiber, who is black, and William (Billy the Butcher) Masselli, who has been identified by the FBI as a Mafia soldier. Merola charged that Jo-Pel was a mere front and that Schiavone had siphoned cash...
...piece of the action. U.S. law requires that any contractor receiving a federal public works grant must award 10% of the business to minority-owned companies. Since 80% of Schiavone's contract was federally financed, the firm had to find a minority subcontractor. So Masselli created the Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Co. and claimed that at least 51% of it was owned by Joseph Galiber, a New York state senator who is black. Merola claims that his evidence shows that Galiber, while drawing a $700-a- week salary as Jo-Pel's president, had no equity in the company...
...prosecution charges that Schiavone, to prove it was giving its fair share of work to minority contractors, reported falsely to the New York City Transit Authority that Jo-Pel had paid more than $90,000 a month to rent tunnel- digging equipment. Schiavone had actually allowed Jo-Pel to use the equipment free of charge. In all, Schiavone collected some $12 million for work it claimed Jo-Pel had done. According to Prosecutor Merola, however, Jo- Pel's effort was worth only about $4 million...
...wiretapped talks released by the FBI to Bronx prosecutors, Masselli describes the Jo-Pel operation and speaks of his bond with Schiavone executives: "They trust me, them guys. I'm the only guy they'll work with." The D.A.'s office also claims that Donovan cosigned a $200,000 check to Masselli as payment in the equipment-rental agreement...
...records of Jo-Pel and Schiavone were subpoenaed by the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, Republican Robert B. Fiske Jr., with FBI cooperation, but this probe produced no legal action. Fiske's successor, Democrat John S. Martin Jr., obtained guilty pleas from Masselli and Orlando for hijacking and conspiring to manufacture synthetic cocaine. After Ronald Reagan won the 1980 election and announced in December that he wanted Donovan as his Labor Secretary, FBI officials in both New York and Washington seemed to lose interest in the Schiavone evidence...