Word: probed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even though investigations take considerable time and manpower, officials are optimistic about cutting down the fraud. Early last year, agents and inspectors from the Agriculture Department joined forces with the FBI and the Secret Service partly to probe organized crime's involvement in food-stamp fraud. The redemption system helps net violators, who must sign a receipt at a bank to convert food stamps to cash. This creates a telltale paper trail. "There are a lot of stamp scams," says Robert Mueller, chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's office in Boston. "But compared...
...Donovan probe is reopened...
...first probe, Silverman received so many reports about Donovan's alleged conferences with mobsters in Miami that Facchiano, one of several gangsters mentioned in the allegations, escaped any questioning. Almost all the others had denied knowing the Labor Secretary, and Silverman says that summoning Facchiano then seemed pointless. But Facchiano, who is serving time in an Alabama prison for loan sharking, will now be called to testify. Silverman will also attempt to interrogate two men closely connected with Masselli who were not questioned during the first probe: Joseph Verlezza, an associate of Genovese gangsters, and Alfred Ditraglia, who watches...
...faces some tough questioning of its own. The Senate Labor Committee is investigating the bureau's handling of Donovan's confirmation probe 18 months ago. The personal files of FBI Director William Webster, forwarded to the committee last month, reveal that the name of Schiavone appeared several times in the bureau's reports on the 1975 disappearance of former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. That detail would surely have intrigued both the Senate committee that approved Donovan's nomination in February 1981, and the special prosecutor this year. But neither learned about it until last month...
...specific focus of the probe remains a matter of speculation. But Vatican observers believe that it involves evidence of a plot, in which the deceased Calvi may have been implicated, to transfer a large amount of Banco Ambrosiano's stock outside of Italy, in secret, where Calvi could have control of it but not have "to worry about the scrutiny of Italian banking authorities. The investigation is also looking into Calvi's use of the Vatican bank in the scheme, especially Marcinkus and Mennini's agreement to issue certain "letters of patronage" for Calvi. Such letters...