Word: eilberg
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Carter got himself in trouble by making two serious mistakes. Several times he told less than the truth about his role in expediting the removal of Marston. Then, after admitting he was asked to fire Marston by one of the prosecutor's targets of investigation, Democratic Congressman Joshua Eilberg of Pennsylvania, Carter did it anyway...
...questions: What did he know? When did he know it? In this case, they were fair questions. Affidavits released last week showed that a veteran Justice Department official, Russell Baker Jr., had been notified by Marston's office as early as last Aug. 17 about an investigation involving Eilberg, a powerful House Judiciary subcommittee chairman. Eilberg's Philadelphia law firm had received a handsome $500,000 in legal fees while helping to obtain federal financing for a new hospital in the city. Also involved in the project and the investigation into it was another prominent Pennsylvania Democrat, Congressman...
...emerged, Marston said the Attorney General had told him that "the decision to fire me was final, and would not be reconsidered." Carter admitted the previous week that he had asked Bell to "expedite" the ouster of Marston after receiving a phone call from Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Joshua Eilberg. Carter presumably did not know that Eilberg was under investigation by Marston's office for financial irregularities in a Philadelphia hospital's construction program...
...first he said he had known nothing about Marston until he heard that Attorney General Griffin Bell was going to replace him. Then, under sharp probing from reporters, Carter conceded that he had telephoned Bell and asked him to "expedite" Marston's ouster after Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman Joshua Eilberg requested him to "look into" the Philadelphia situation. It was an uncomfortable admission to say the least: although Carter denied being aware of it, Eilberg has been implicated in a Marston investigation into financial irregularities in the construction of a Philadelphia hospital. While smilingly ignoring questions on why Marston...
UNFORTUNATELY, the humane originality of Carter's amnesty proposal does not carry over to his proposed guidelines for future immigration policy. He has not challenged the quotas established in Public Law 94571, the so-called Eilberg bill, which limits Mexican immigration to 20,000 annually. To enforce this limitation, Carter proposes increasing the guard at the border, a measure that has failed miserably in the past to stem significantly the flow of illegal immigration and offers little hope of doing so in the future. As professor of History John Womack '59, an expert in Latin American affairs has said...