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REPUBLIC The Arizona Republic Wednesday, September 1, 1982 A4 Mfitt Reporter ordered back to jail for refusing to testify in killing Probers unable to link failed hit' to murder of Donovan witness Crime Courts "Paul has to go back to jail," Corsetti's attorney, Thomas Troy, said after taking a' phone call from an assistant clerk at the Supreme Court. Corsetti was in Troy's office when he learned he must return to jail. "This whole episode should never have happened," he said, blaming the Massachusetts Legislature for lacking the "guts" to enact a shield law protecting reporters. Troy has argued that Corsetti was protected by the First Amendment and had a reporter's right to protect his sources. Corsetti refused to testify in court about interviews he had with Edward R.

Kopacz who allegedly confessed he shot and killed gay hustler Curtis Dale Barbre in Lowell in February 1978. Kopacz later was acquitted by a jury. In an article in the Herald American Dec. 15, 1979, Corsetti named Kopacz as one of three people involved in the Barbre murder. The other two were not identified.

United Press International BOSTON A Boston newspaper reporter who had won a 24-hour reprieve after being sent to jail for refusing to testify in a murder trial lost his bid Tuesday to remain free. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan sent Boston Herald American reporter Paul Corsetti back to jail when he took no action on an appeal by Corsetti's attorneys to stay a 90-day sentence ordered Monday. The attorneys wanted Brennan to stay the order until the full court convenes in October and decides whether to hear his formal appeal. Corsetti, 33, had won a last-minute 24-hour reprieve Monday night from a state Supreme Judicial Court justice as he was being processed to enter the Middlesex House of Correction in suburban Billerica. On Monday, Corsetti became the first reporter in Massachusetts history to be jailed for contempt of court.

He spent about three hours in custody. Paul Corsetti Associated Press NEW YORK No link has been found between the gangland-style murder of a contractor who had cooperated in a federal investigation of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan and the attempted murder of a onetime mob bodyguard, investigators said Tuesday. Anthony Mongelli, a former bodyguard for the late mob boss Frank Tieri, remained in critical condition Tuesday. He was shot Sunday night as he sat in a car in the driveway outside his Brooklyn home. Detectives, meanwhile, searched for fingerprint evidence in the getaway car used in the slaying of Nathan Masselli, who also was shot in his car.

Masselli had been questioned in the original federal probe of Donovan, and his father was to testify in the renewed investigation. When Mongelli, a former Genovese family member, was found shot in the head late Sunday, there was speculation of a link to the Masselli case. Authorities believe the attack on Masselli, which took place in front of hundreds of witnesses in a well-lighted playground, was bungled. If so, they say, retribution may have been sought. Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola, whose office is coordinating the investigations, said that so far, "I don't know of any links (between the murders)." "I don't know of any evidence of that," he said.

in Washington, Donovan insisted he would be "fully cleared" of allegations that he had ties to mobsters when he was a construction executive. "As I have said repeatedly, there is absolutely no substance to these charges, and that is the way the final chapter will be written," Donovan said in a statement released by his office. Donovan met privately for two hours Sunday with special prosecutor Leon Silverman, who is investigating new allegations about Donovan's conduct as top financial officer of Schiavone Construction Co. Last Wednesday night, Masselli, whose imprisoned father had been brought to Manhattan for questioning by Silverman, was shot to death. Salvatore Odierno, a reputed member of the Gambino crime family and allegedly one of three men who fled the scene of the slaying in a red Pontiac, surrendered Saturday.

He has refused to talk to investigators. Merola said detectives have two other suspects, but he declined to identify them. Masselli was the second figure in the Donovan probe to be murdered. In June, former Teamsters Fred Furino, who had been interviewed several times by Silverman, was found shot to death in the trunk of his car in Manhattan. No suspects have been arrested in his slaying.

The FBI was asked last week by Silverman to determine if Masselli's slaying involved obstruction of justice. The lawyer for Masselli's father said his client had no idea why he was brought here for more questioning and that Masselli does not believe his son's death is related to the Donovan probe. Nathan Masselli, who had no known connections to the mob, came to official attention in a probe of a New York City construction scandal. Masselli had an interest in Jo-Pel Construction which allegedly sold the city a pile of sand that it already' owned. Jo-Pel was a subcontractor for Schiavone.

In May, the elder Masselli told Silverman that he paid Schiavone Vice President Joseph DiCarolis a $20,000 kickback in return for a $200,000 loan. But Silverman reported that he did not find sufficient corroboration of the charge. Last week, federal law-enforcement officials said Silverman resumed the inquiry partly because of new allegations that Donovan met with Masselli and other reputed mobsters in January 1979 in Miami, Florida. The elder Masselli, like Mongelli, is a reputed member of the Genovese family. FACTORY AUTHORIZED i since! DO IT BETTER FOR LESS! LOOK FOR THIS MAGAZINE.

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