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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 Department of Justice. He, along with Margolis, reportedly called Marvin Rudnick, a Los Angeles prosecutor, to Washington D.C. and instructed him to eliminate Music Corporation of America from his investigation into Sal Pisello.1
William Hundley, retained by Music Corporation of America, confirmed meeting with Margolis and DeFeo to convey Music Corporation of America's willingness to cooperate in any organized crime investigation. Marvin Rudnick accused DeFeo of having an agenda to obstruct justice in the Music Corporation of America investigation. Richard Stavin confirmed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation wiretap revealed a conversation in which Eugene Giaquinto told Martin Bacow that he would call Edwin Meese and have the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation of Music Corporation of America stopped. This investigation was indeed shut down afterward by the Department of Justice.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
Footnotes
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Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. First Edition. TrineDay, 2010. ↩︎