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Federal Investigators are not yet certain why Fred Furino, 52, an important witness in Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman's probe into Donovan's alleged ties to the Mafia, was murdered. His decaying body, with at least one bullet wound in the head, was found in a car abandoned in New York City. A career gangster, Furino had been intensively questioned by Silverman's investigators and called before a federal grand jury hearing Silverman's witnesses. The investigators suspect that other mobsters feared that Furino had been cooperating with federal officials. Furino may not have been...
...When Silverman began his inquiry a year later, he took Furino up on the polygraph offer. Furino still denied knowing Donovan. But officials say Furino flunked the test-and not just once. "Freddie took a dive six times," claims one investigator. Whether Furino also denied any acquaintance with Donovan in his grand jury testimony has not been revealed. But he disappeared from his New Jersey trucking company office shortly afterward, on June...
...Silverman's request, the FBI opened an inquiry into whether the killing of Furino amounted to an obstruction of justice. Furino's violent end made the earlier anonymous death threats received by Frank Silbey, chief investigator for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, all the more ominous. Silbey had been warned to "lay off the Donovan investigation" or he would "end up in a pine...
Hatch said last week that his committee will pursue the Donovan case as soon as Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman concludes his investigation of the Labor Secretary. Hatch and the committee's ranking Democrat, Edward Kennedy, have persuaded the Senate Judiciary Committee (of which both are also members) to delay confirmation of Mullen to his new post as head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. This time they want all the information before a final vote is taken...
...disclosure in March that HRE president Sally Zeckhauser's salary had been increased from $48,637 to $65,500; that Treasurer S. Michael Hawe's pay had been increased from $38,480 to $49,940; and that Vice President Robert Silverman's stipend had been hiked from $31,800 in fiscal year 1980 to $49,300 in fiscal year 1981. A spokesman for the University said that the HRE administrators' pay increases stemmed in some cases from expanded job responsibilities, in one case from special bonuses, and in another instance from past payment for current and future services...