They viewed grainy videotapes of the F.B.I. agent, handing over an envelope filled with $ 25,000 in hundred - dollar bills to Vincent Tabone, then the vice chairman of the Queens County Republican Committee, and an envelope of $ 15,000 to Joseph J. Savino, the Bronx Republican chairman, in an Audi S.U.V. parked outside
Sparks Steak House in Midtown Manhattan.