The Nation - News from Feb. 20, 1985
Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan’s lawyer told a state judge in New York that he and other defense lawyers still do not understand the basis for the 137-count grand larceny and fraud indictment against Donovan and nine others despite reading tens of thousands of pages of court documents and attending repeated court hearings since last October. But the prosecution said that Donovan, while he was a construction firm executive, had implicated himself in the alleged scheme to defraud the New York City Transit Authority of $7.4 million.
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