Word: prosecutors
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...Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan. Almost from the moment the former New Jersey construction executive arrived in Washington in 1981 for his confirmation hearings, he has been pressed to explain alleged links with the Mafia. Donovan has resolutely denied any dealings with organized crime. Last year a special federal prosecutor concluded a nine-month inquiry with the report that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to indict Donovan...
...local city prosecutor refused to pursue the cse on those grounds, however, and Andriette is now considering other legal actions including a breach of contract suit...
Does Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, who was a New Jersey construction executive before he took office, have ties to organized crime? None that would be possible to prove in court, a special federal prosecutor decided last year. But whether Donovan has had business and personal links with gangsters-he denies any such affiliation-there are gangsters who claim they know him well...
...latest allegations of this sort cropped up in New York courtrooms last week. Two men who had cooperated with the special federal prosecutor were killed in the summer of 1982 just as the prosecutor's investigations were winding up. Last Wednesday the Mafia gunman in one of those murders was convicted in New York City: according to Bronx Assistant District Attorney Martin Fisher, Phil Buono killed Informer Nat Masselli, the son of a mobster, in order "to help and protect the Schiavone Construction Co. and Raymond Donovan...
...investigating Donovan, Defendants Sanzo and Petito lied when they denied having received payoffs from the Schiavone company in the form of salary checks made out to nonexistent "no-show" workers. Whether or not Donovan sanctioned "making illegal payoffs to a union and hiding it on the payroll," said Prosecutor Laura Brevetti in her opening statement, "is the $64,000 question" in the Sanzo-Petito trial. Her key witness: a pseudonymous "Mr. J.H.," who has been a federal informer since 1973 and who, unlike most such federal witnesses, took and passed an FBI lie detector test administered two weeks...