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...more conventional qualifications. But he opted to be daring. He touched my hair and said, 'I want you with your dreadlocks.'" Though Brazil's population is 45% black, Gil and Social Assistance Minister Benedita da Silva are only the second and third black ministers in its history (football legend Pelé was the first). "We belong to the real Brazil that is finally starting to win a place in power, a place in the national leadership," he says. Gil grew up with the inequities Lula has vowed to fight. "I am the son of a doctor and a teacher...
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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...
...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...