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summary: "Stavin quit his job after the DOJ sealed the wiretaps and no prosecutions were pursued in the MCA organized crime investigation."
summary: "Justice Department organized-crime strike force attorney in Los Angeles who, according to Cheri Seymour, supervised the FBI wiretaps on MCA and quit when the matter was dropped."
relations:
- type: investigated
with: "[[Music Corporation of America]]"
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created: 2025-08-05
updated: 2026-09-22
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[[Richard Stavin]] was a member of the Organized Crime Strike Force. He supervised the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] wiretaps on [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]. Along with [[United States Attorney|U.S. Attorney]] [[Marvin Rudnick]] and [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] agent [[Thomas Gates]], Stavin believed that [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] had been penetrated by organized crime, based on the wiretaps.[1]
[[Richard Stavin]] was a member of the Justice Department's [[Los Angeles]] Organized Crime Strike Force. According to [[Cheri Seymour]], he supervised the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] wiretaps on [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]]. Along with the prosecutor [[Marvin Rudnick]] and FBI agent [[Thomas Gates]], Stavin believed that MCA had been penetrated by organized crime, based on the wiretaps.[^1]
Stavin quit his job after the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]] sealed the wiretaps and no prosecutions were pursued in the [[Music Corporation of America|MCA]] organized crime investigation. The [[Los Angeles Organized Crime Strike Force]] was disbanded following these events.[1]
Stavin quit his job after the [[Department of Justice|DOJ]] sealed the wiretaps and brought no case against MCA or its executives; 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 following these events.[^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