Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Figures in Silverman 's probe turn up in a new investigation...
...Chink") Facchiano, a convicted loan shark and former captain in the Genovese clan, to set up no-show jobs for mobsters on Schiavone construction sites. In mid-July, Silverman reopened his investigation, determined to dig deeper into the alleged links between the Genovese family and Schiavone. In his first probe, he had questioned the elder Masselli and Buono, who is reputed to be a Genovese captain; Silverman decided to interrogate them again, and also to grill Facchiano, now serving a 20-year prison term in Alabama, and the supposedly ailing Verlezza, a close associate of Buono...
...second witness in the Donovan probe is murdered...
...Schiavone Construction Co. The investigation is being conducted by Special Federal Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who stated in June that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to prosecute Donovan. TIME has learned that Silverman's investigators had in fact questioned Nat Masselli at least once in the renewed probe. William Masselli was recently transferred from a prison near Lake Placid, N.Y., where he is serving a seven-year sentence for hijacking, to a Manhattan jail in preparation for his appearance before a grand jury investigating new charges against Donovan. The FBI is looking into the Masselli assassination as a possible obstruction...
Tracing the license-plate number of the getaway car, New York City police at week's end arrested Salvatore Odierno, 67, a reputed associate of mobsters who have been questioned in the Silverman probe, and charged him with second-degree murder. Federal investigators believe that the Mob, unable to "reach" the elder Masselli in prison, may have ordered the death of his son as a message to keep quiet. Masselli is also co-owner of Jo-Pel Contracting & Trucking Corp., which has been named in a half-million-dollar New York City landfill and excavation scandal. But investigators tend...