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Figures in Silverman 's probe turn up in a new investigation...
When he was investigating Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan last spring, Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman summoned a pair of mobsters to testify before a grand jury about their alleged past links with the Reagan Cabinet member. One of them, Philip Buono, reportedly denied even knowing Donovan; the other, Joseph ("Joe Hooks") Verlezza, claimed he was too ill to talk and never showed up. The names of both men have resurfaced: federal authorities consider them prime suspects in the slaying last month of Nat Masselli, 31, a Silverman informant and son of a mobster who has been a central figure...
...both Nat and William Masselli were crucial witnesses in the investigation, reopened in mid-July, into charges that U.S. Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan had dealings with organized crime when he was part owner of the Schiavone Construction Co. The investigation is being conducted by Special Federal Prosecutor Leon Silverman, who stated in June that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to prosecute Donovan. TIME has learned that Silverman's investigators had in fact questioned Nat Masselli at least once in the renewed probe. William Masselli was recently transferred from a prison near Lake Placid, N.Y., where he is serving...
Tracing the license-plate number of the getaway car, New York City police at week's end arrested Salvatore Odierno, 67, a reputed associate of mobsters who have been questioned in the Silverman probe, and charged him with second-degree murder. Federal investigators believe that the Mob, unable to "reach" the elder Masselli in prison, may have ordered the death of his son as a message to keep quiet. Masselli is also co-owner of Jo-Pel Contracting & Trucking Corp., which has been named in a half-million-dollar New York City landfill and excavation scandal. But investigators tend...
...first phase of Silverman's investigation, the elder Masselli provided evidence that, he claimed, showed a Schiavone official had arranged for Masselli to receive a $200,000 loan from the firm in return for a $20,000 kickback. But the special prosecutor did not find the evidence clear-cut, and the Schiavone official denied the charge. Masselli's son Nat also consented to telephone taps of his conversations with a Schiavone lawyer. Silverman told TIME: "Those conversations, although they may have been illadvised, were not criminal...