Word: picardo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hares everywhere: mechanical bunnies in Tuck's apartment; a project leader named Ozzie, for Oswald the Rabbit; a cameo turn by Chuck Jones, the cartoon auteur who developed Bugs Bunny. Is the plot conflict as pure as an archetypal Western shoot-out? Then one bad guy, the Cowboy (Robert Picardo), will twirl his hair dryer like a six-shooter while he sings I'm an Old Cowhand; and another, the thug-chauffeur Igoe (Vernon Wells), will shoot a man through the gloved finger of his steel hand and then, to impress a gawking boy, blow smoke from the glove...
...also learned that Ralph Picardo, an admitted Mafioso turned Government witness, told the FBI in January 1981 that he had received regular payoffs from Donovan during the 1960s to ensure labor peace. He also alleges that Anthony Adamski, the FBI agent in charge of Donovan's confirmation check, told him that White House Counsel Fred Fielding had called and told Adamski that "the White House wants [the investigation] over with." Picardo's word is unverified, and Fielding last week again denied he had interfered with the Donovan probe...
...report names Furino, Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio and Ralph Picardo as members of Provenzano's group. It contends that Provenzano and Briguglio helped murder former Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa in 1975. Picardo is now a federal witness who contends that he had collected payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s to arrange labor peace and had turned the cash over to Briguglio. Other FBI informants claim that Furino sometimes picked up such payments from Donovan. Briguglio was the victim of a gangland slaying in New York City in 1978 because, according to an informant, "Provenzano said that he had found...
Just before Donovan was confirmed in February, the FBI told the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee that Mobster Ralph Picardo had claimed to have received regular payoffs from Donovan in the 1960s for labor peace. Picardo had testified for the Government to help convict several Teamsters Union officials of racketeering. According to the FBI Picardo contended that Briguglio, a victim of a mob execution in 1978, had shared these payoffs. When asked about this at his Senate hearings, Donovan denied giving any bribes, called Picardo "murdering slime" and testified three times that he had never even met Briguglio. Because...
...approved as Secretary of Labor by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee; he faces the full Senate vote this week. Some half a dozen informants had told the FBI that Donovan's New Jersey construction firm had ties to organized crime. The chief accuser was Ralph Picardo, a self-admitted "unsavory character" who was convicted of murder in 1975. Two years later, his conviction was overturned on appeal. Meanwhile, Picardo began to talk and the FBI found him to be a credible witness: his testimony has led to three convictions. Picardo claimed that Donovan had made several payoffs...