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Only seven weeks ago, when Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman released a 1,025-page report stating that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to prosecute the Labor Secretary, Raymond Donovan quickly declared that his troubles were over. Not quite. Silverman has reopened his investigation, and TIME has learned that he will present fresh allegations about Donovan's conduct to grand juries in New York and elsewhere...
...first probe, Silverman received so many reports about Donovan's alleged conferences with mobsters in Miami that Facchiano, one of several gangsters mentioned in the allegations, escaped any questioning. Almost all the others had denied knowing the Labor Secretary, and Silverman says that summoning Facchiano then seemed pointless. But Facchiano, who is serving time in an Alabama prison for loan sharking, will now be called to testify. Silverman will also attempt to interrogate two men closely connected with Masselli who were not questioned during the first probe: Joseph Verlezza, an associate of Genovese gangsters, and Alfred Ditraglia, who watches...
Also heard on the wiretaps, according to the Silverman report, were attempts by officials of Schiavone to get Masselli to contribute money to Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. Masselli, who had muscled his way into control of a company handling subcontracts for Schiavone, readily agreed to give $1,000. The Silverman report notes that Donovan and other Schiavone officials asked some 200 subcontractors doing business with the construction firm to kick in at least $1,000 each to the Reagan campaign. Two of the subcontractors told Silverman that they felt the request for funds implied that failure to comply...
...Silverman report suggests that Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman whose body was found in an abandoned car on June 11 in New York City, may have been murdered because of his role in the Donovan probe. Furino flunked a lie-detector test on April 27, when he claimed that he had never collected any payoffs from Donovan. He later made two appearances before the grand jury investigating Donovan. On June 2 Silverman subpoenaed John DiGilio, Furino's superior in the Genovese family, to appear before the grand jury as well. The next day Furino vanished. Silverman's report...
...special prosecutor also discloses that the FBI asked him on several occasions not to call specific informers because their testimony might endanger their lives or jeopardize "a major organized-crime investigation." Silverman agreed. At least one of these witnesses, TIME was told, would have claimed that Donovan and his company had ties to organized crime...