Word: civiletti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation, that he perjured himself during the 1978 Senate hearings preceding his confirmation as Federal Reserve Board chairman, a post he held until he moved to Treasury in July 1979. Last week Miller's prospects for survival as a member of the Administration brightened considerably. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti announced that he saw no grounds for appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the Treasury chief...
With the Senate and SEC investigations concluded but inconclusive, Miller's opponents now demand that the Justice Department dig further. Last week five Senators sent Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti two separate requests for a special prosecutor to investigate possible perjury. Said Senator William Proxmire: "It appears clear that Mr. Miller's testimony before this [Banking] Committee in 1978 was false and misleading." Civiletti has been slow in pushing the inquiry of his fellow Cabinet member and has not questioned several top Textron executives. Referring to the Abscam scandal, Senator Robert Dole quips: "Maybe the Justice Department...
...adamantly, Justice Department officials insisted that grand juries must examine the evidence first, decide whom to indict for what, and send any criminal charges to trial. Simultaneous probes would only get in each other's way and make both branches of Government look inept, said Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti, and in the end might let all of the suspects escape punishment. The new scandal was hardly another Watergate, yet the inter-branch conflict was hauntingly familiar...
...leaked prosecution memo later turned out to be unfair in making no distinctions of any type among the potential bribery cases. Civiletti told the Senate Ethics Committee that some of the cases were sure...
...memo." That is a prosecutor's chronological summary of a mass of FBI evidence, and copies are sent to relevant FBI officials. The published details of the Justice Department's information brought howls of protest from Congress and also from the American Civil Liberties Union. Attorney General Civiletti was outraged too; he promised a thorough internal investigation to find the leakers. The flood of pretrial publicity could jeopardize any prosecution the Justice Department tries to bring. But one veteran of such internal Government probes called them "fools' errands...