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summary: "Rudnick subsequently lost his job when he refused to drop the investigation into MCA."
summary: "Federal prosecutor on the Justice Department's organized-crime investigation of MCA in the 1980s, who according to Cheri Seymour lost his job for refusing to drop it."
relations:
- type: investigated
with: "[[Music Corporation of America]]"
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[[Marvin Rudnick]] was a [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney]] who supervised the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] wiretap investigation of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]. He, along with [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Thomas Gates]] and [[Richard Stavin]] of the Organized Crime Strike Force, believed that [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] had been penetrated by organized crime, based on the wiretaps.[1]
[[Marvin Rudnick]] was a federal prosecutor who, according to [[Cheri Seymour]], supervised the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] wiretap investigation of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]. He, along with FBI agent [[Thomas Gates]] and [[Richard Stavin]] of the Organized Crime Strike Force, believed that MCA had been penetrated by organized crime, based on the wiretaps.[^1]
Rudnick subsequently lost his job when he refused to drop the investigation into [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]. The wiretaps were later sealed by the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]], and no prosecutions were pursued. The Los Angeles Organized Crime Strike Force was disbanded, and Rudnick's efforts to expose the alleged organized crime penetration of [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] were thwarted.[1]
Rudnick subsequently lost his job when he refused to drop the investigation into MCA. In her account the wiretaps were later sealed by the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]], and no case against MCA or its executives followed; the investigation did produce the tax-evasion conviction of the MCA middleman [[Sal Pisello|Salvatore Pisello]], affirmed by the Ninth Circuit in 1989.[^2] The [[Los Angeles]] Organized Crime Strike Force was disbanded, and Rudnick's efforts to expose the alleged organized crime penetration of MCA were thwarted.[^1]
After losing his job, Rudnick eventually had part of his story told in the 1993 book, *Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, The Music Business, and the Mafia* by William Knoedelseder.[1]
After losing his job, Rudnick eventually had part of his story told in the 1993 book, *Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, The Music Business, and the Mafia* by William Knoedelseder.[^1]
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### Footnotes
[1] Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.
[^1]: Seymour, Cheri. *The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal*. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010.
[^2]: *United States v. Pisello,* 877 F.2d 762 (9th Cir. 1989). https://openjurist.org/877/f2d/762