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...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...
...prosecution charges that Masselli and Galiber conspired with top Schiavone executives, including Donovan, to inflate the value of work that Jo-Pel claimed to be doing on the subway project. One tactic, Merola claims, was for Jo-Pel to bill Schiavone more than $90,000 a month for "renting" tunnel-digging equipment that Donovan's company let Jo-Pel use free of charge. Schiavone officials passed these bogus rental bills along to the New York City Transit Authority, which then paid Schiavone. In all, Schiavone collected some $12 million for work it claimed that Jo-Pel had done...
...connections and his operations. With this information, the New York agents on Jan. 4,1979, got a court order to bug conversations and tap telephones at Masselli's meat-packing warehouse in The Bronx. Over six months this produced 892 tape recordings. The mobsters talked about Jo-Pel, the Frascone murder and Democratic officials in New York City and Albany who, they claimed, were corrupt. Donovan was mentioned in various contexts at least six times. The references to Donovan were mostly casual or vague. At one point, Mobster Masselli claimed to "get along good" with Donovan and other Schiavone...
...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...