Word: provenzano
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...told him-according to an FBI report gained from the informant-that "the time for the murder was very near and that Allen must be prepared to carry out the assignment on a moment's notice." That order never came, Allen told the subcommittee, because Anthony ("Tony Pro") Provenzano, a Mafioso and former Teamsters vice president from New Jersey, heard about the plot. Allen claimed that Hoffa had intended to get other gangsters to kill Provenzano and thus "put everybody in line in the Teamsters...
Hoffa disappeared on July 30, 1975, from a restaurant in suburban Detroit, where he apparently had expected to arrange a meeting with Provenzano. Tony Pro is now back in prison. He was convicted in 1978 of ordering the murder of a former official of a New Jersey Teamsters local. Fitzsimmons died of cancer last year. His successor as Teamsters president, Roy L. Williams, has been indicted for conspiracy to commit bribery, and is expected to stand trial in Chicago this fall...
...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...
...document also discloses that the bureau at that time portrayed its informants within the Provenzano gang as highly reliable. But when the same informants made allegations about Donovan last year, the FBI suddenly considered them so shaky that it did not immediately forward all of its information to the Senate committee holding the confirmation hearings. The FBI did warn Fred Fielding, a Reagan transition aide handling background checks on Cabinet nominees. In a written report following up telephone calls to Fielding, the FBI told him that it had corroborated information that Donovan had "close personal and business ties with known...
Still another FBI report, which noted that one of its informants claimed to have seen Donovan dining in a restaurant with Phillip ("Brother") Moscato, an alleged Provenzano associate, failed to reach the Senate committee. Donovan had testified that he had never heard of Moscato, even though Moscato told reporters that a wrecking firm he headed had done demolition work for Schiavone Construction...