Word: civiletti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response, Delaware G.O.P. Congressman Thomas Evans pointed out that Marston had nailed two Republicans along with several Democrats, and had urged an independent congressional investigation "of this increasingly sordid affair." Republican Senate Judiciary Committee members are planning to keep the controversy boiling at confirmation hearings later this winter for Civiletti as Deputy Attorney General and Baker as U.S. Attorney for Baltimore...
After Helms agreed to cop the plea and all details were worked out, the Justice Department whisked him into the federal courtroom of Judge Barrington D. Parker in Washington without notice. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti presented a three-page "statement of facts" to which Helms had agreed...
...Civiletti told the judge the misdemeanor no-contest plea was "fair and just...
Parker thereupon jolted Helms, Wil-iams and Civiletti by declining to wrap up the deal right then and there. When Williams demurred, Parker asked: "You had hoped that I would sentence him today?" Replied Williams: "Both the Government and I had hoped that you would do that." The judge was not to be hurried. "Well, Mr. Williams, I am like a ship without a rudder. I am a fish out of the sea. I do not have any report or anything to aid me in sentencing...
...Helms plea bargain back on July 25 in an Oval Office meeting with Carter and assorted high-level administration officials. This statement is directly at odds with Carter's late September assertion that his knowledge of the case was confined to press reports he had scanned. And Benjamin Civiletti, the head of the Criminal Division in Justice, who figured prominently in the negotiations with Helms and his attorney, disclosed that, in yet another unorthodox step, Justice had actually initiated the backroom talks with the former CIA chief, hoping to reach the very arrangement they announced last week...