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Investigations of Donovan by the FBI, the U.S. Attorney's office in New York and Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman produced no indictments. Silverman, while expressing concern over the "disturbing" number of allegations against Donovan, had concluded after two separate probes that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to accuse the Secretary of having broken any federal laws...
...jury in The Bronx in New York City. The jurors had been looking into Schiavone's subway work at the request of Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola, a four-term Democrat. Donovan claimed that the jury was doing nothing more than "a rehash" of "the baseless allegations" that Silverman had investigated. It was all "a witch hunt," he said. The Labor Secretary said he had hired independent experts to give him lie-detector tests, and "needless to say, I passed with flying colors." Declared Donovan: "I will not be indicted...
After TIME and the Washington Post revealed the existence of the Masselli wiretaps and reported that the FBI had withheld information from the Senate committee, a flurry of investigations began. Special Prosecutor Silverman was appointed. The Senate committee probed the FBI'S mishandling of the case. Meanwhile, the Schiavone company hired its own detectives to find out who was leaking information about Donovan and the company. The private detectives even secretly recorded conversations in offices of the Senate committee's staff...
...Silverman interviewed Orlando but apparently doubted his credibility. Edward McDonald, chief of a federal strike force that had been unable to gain access to the tapes, decided to turn Orlando over to Merola. By then, the Bronx D.A. had secured convictions of two gangsters in the slaying of Masselli's son Nat, who had been cooperating with Silverman. At the 1983 trial, Bronx Assistant District Attorney Martin Fisher claimed that young Masselli had been killed in order "to help and protect" the Schiavone company and Donovan...
TIME has learned that Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who headed the Donovan inquiry in 1982, was on the Schiavone spies' list of targets. Silverman said last week that he was "appalled" to hear Schiavone's agents had designated him for investigation and that he considered such actions to be "perilously close to obstructing justice." Sharer says Schiavone boasted of getting material from Silverman's staff. Schiavone Lawyer Geiser denies that the company received leaks from that office...