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category: "Law Enforcement & Legal"
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tags:
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- Person
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- Lawyer
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- FBI
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- LawEnforcement
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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."
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relations:
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- type: investigated
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with: "[[Music Corporation of America]]"
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fn: 1
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created: 2025-08-05
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updated: 2026-09-22
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---
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[[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]
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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
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[^1]: 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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[^2]: *United States v. Pisello,* 877 F.2d 762 (9th Cir. 1989). https://openjurist.org/877/f2d/762
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