Death Threats

Donovan probe has enemies

Frank Silbey. chief investigator for the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, picked up his telephone Said an unidentified male caller: "If you don't lay off the Donovan investigation, you and your wife and your children will end up in a pine box."

With that death threat, the federal investigation into possible ties between Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and various Mafia-related labor racketeers took on a more sinister tone. Silbey said it was the second such warning he has received in the past month Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, chairman...

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