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...Bronx warehouse recorded a sordid tale of dealings between New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. and a subcontracting firm run by William Masselli, a soldier in the Genovese Mafia clan. But the FBI did not bring up these taps during the confirmation hearings last year of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, who was a vice president and part owner of Schiavone, even though Donovan's name came up in the recorded conversations. FBI Director William Webster last week sought to shift the blame for this lapse away from his organization. In an unusual, hour-long press briefing, he said...
...January 1981, days after President Reagan's Inauguration, the FBI'S second-ranking official appeared before a Senate committee to assure its members that they could go ahead with Raymond Donovan's confirmation as Secretary of Labor. FBI agents, he testified, had found nothing unsavory in Donovan's business dealings as a construction executive, despite the rumors of underworld connections. One troubled Senator asked if the investigation might not have been more thorough. No, replied Executive Assistant FBI Director Francis Mullen, "I do not know what else we could have done...
...heard has changed my, reduced my confidence in Secretary Donovan." So said Ronald Reagan last week during a brief, unscheduled encounter with reporters in the White House press room. Some of the President's aides, however, were worried about fresh allegations concerning Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, who has been accused of consorting with organized-crime figures before he joined the Reagan Cabinet. "This is heavy political baggage," admitted one aide, who conceded that the President's reluctance to distance himself from Donovan threatened to make it "a shoestring Lance case." That was a reference to Jimmy Carter...
Historians have sought ways around the dilemma, which would also apply even to the Lutherans, who lack bishops in historical succession in most of their churches. U.S. Catholic Bible Expert Raymond Brown contends that it is highly likely that in the early Christian period, churches with bishops recognized those without bishops on the basis of their apostolic beliefs, so that today's Pope could do the same. No such scheme is necessary with the Eastern Orthodox, whose priests and bishops Rome has always recognized as being in the apostolic succession...
With that death threat, the federal investigation into possible ties between Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and various Mafia-related labor racketeers took on a more sinister tone. Silbey said it was the second such warning he has received in the past month Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, chairman of the Senate committee, said that he had also received "some minor threats in this matter,'' but did not consider them "significant." However, the warnings to Silbey, Hatch said, "were serious," although there was no way to determine who had made the telephone calls. Declared Hatch: "They...