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...Neill and Dukakis took the newly completed subway extension to Harvard Square after cutting another . The two the opening of the Alewife MBIA Station in North Cambridge...
Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced last week that on the basis of new information, the case against Goetz will be reopened. Investigators said they now had an additional witness. Morgenthau refused to identify the witness, but there was speculation that the individual was a passenger on the IRT subway car last December when Goetz, 37, opened fire on four teenagers he claims had hassled him and hustled him for money. A number of other passengers testified before the original grand jury, which indicted Goetz only for illegal possession of a handgun. Acting State Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane ruled...
Donovan and nine co-defendants have been charged with grand larceny as well as 125 counts of falsifying business documents and eleven counts of filing phony papers with government agencies. The men allegedly defrauded the New York City Transit Authority on a $186 million subway contract awarded in 1978 to the Schiavone Construction Co. of Secaucus, N.J. At the time, Donovan was executive vice president and one of two controlling stockholders in the firm. Donovan tried to have his indictment dismissed, partly on the ground that it was politically motivated. The head prosecutor, Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola...
Donovan's problems began in 1976, when William Masselli, a soldier in the Genovese Mafia family, took over a small construction firm that held subcontracts on large Schiavone projects. When Schiavone won the subway contract, Masselli was given a piece of the action. U.S. law requires that any contractor receiving a federal public works grant must award 10% of the business to minority-owned companies. Since 80% of Schiavone's contract was federally financed, the firm had to find a minority subcontractor. So Masselli created the Jo-Pel Contracting and Trucking Co. and claimed that at least...
...Secretary, the FBI advised the lawmakers about his alleged organized crime connections but for some reason did not mention the incriminating wiretap. Nor did the FBI reveal that it was aware, as the Senate considered Donovan's qualifications, that "possibly fraudulent schemes" to hike minority participation in the Schiavone subway work had been disclosed by the recorded conversations. The bureau failed to act then on the evidence that, more than three years later, produced Merola's indictment...