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Both Donelan and the informant told their stories to the FBI before Donovan was confirmed by the Senate, on Feb. 3, 1981. But the Senators were not told by the FBI about these bid-rigging charges at that time. The information seems to have been buried in the Newark offices of the FBI. This apparent suppression of derogatory material about Donovan has angered FBI Director William Webster. TIME has learned that he has shifted two FBI officials in charge of the preconfirmation check of Donovan, Joseph P. Schulte and Anthony Adamski, to other posts in Washington...
...Senate committee released a summary of the uncovered FBI information late last week. It included allegations by an informant in Newark that Donovan, when he was executive vice president in charge of labor relations for Schiavone Construction Co., was a friend and traveling companion of New Jersey Gangster Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio. The informant said Briguglio, in return for payoffs, gave Donovan information about low bids on Government construction contracts, which he learned of through Government contacts, so that Donovan could underbid. At his confirmation hearings, Donovan three times denied ever meeting Briguglio, the victim of a Mob execution...
...internal inquiry into why the reports were tucked away for more than a year. According to a memo by Webster, the probe has so far disclosed only a bureaucratic runaround: "The failure to disseminate this information was due in part to a belief on the part of the Newark division that the information had been furnished to the special section at FBI headquarters . . . Bureau managers of the special-inquiry section have advised that they did not receive the information." The bureau's computers and information systems are supposed to give top officials direct and immediate access to all information...
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DIED. John M. Ashbrook, 53, a conservative Republican Congressman from Ohio for 22 years; apparently of a heart attack; in Newark, Ohio. A former chairman of the American Conservative Union, he sometimes let his fierce rhetoric overshadow his personal charm. In 1972 he challenged President Nixon in four Republican primaries but never got more than 10% of the vote. After a string of victories in his district, Ashbrook was seeking his party's nomination for the Senate seat held by Democrat Howard Metzenbaum...