Michael DeFeo
DeFeo reportedly threatened Richard Stavin about talking about the circumstances of the case, or 'throwing dirt,' when Stavin quit the Organized Crime Strike Force in May 1989.
Michael DeFeo was the deputy to David Margolis, chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force at the DOJ. He, along with Margolis, reportedly called Marvin Rudnick, a Los Angeles prosecutor, to Washington D.C. and instructed him to eliminate MCA from his investigation into Sal Pisello.1
William Hundley, retained by MCA, confirmed meeting with Margolis and DeFeo to convey MCA's willingness to cooperate in any organized crime investigation. Marvin Rudnick accused DeFeo of having an agenda to obstruct justice in the MCA investigation. Richard Stavin confirmed that the FBI wiretap revealed a conversation in which Eugene Giaquinto told Martin Bacow that he would call Edwin Meese and have the FBI's investigation of MCA stopped. This investigation was indeed shut down afterward by the DOJ.1
DeFeo reportedly threatened Richard Stavin about talking about the circumstances of the case, or "throwing dirt," when Stavin quit the Organized Crime Strike Force in May 1989.1
Sources
- Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩
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