Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PLEASE SEE SPENCER LEE FROM ALBANY WHEN HE REQUESTS AN APPOINTMENT. This terse handwritten note from Jimmy Carter to Attorney General Griffin Bell lay forgotten for 19 months in a filing cabinet at the Justice Department. Last week it emerged at the center of a mystery that threatened to embarrass Carter and some of his closest associates...
Last week George Martinez, the newspaper heiress's attorney, sent a pardon application to Attorney General Griffin Bell. After reviewing her case?a process that could take as long as 90 days ?Bell will pass on his recommendations to President Carter, who will make the final decision. Trying to do her bit, Patty sometimes wears a T shirt that reads PARDON ME on the front and, on the back, BEING KIDNAPED MEANS ALWAYS HAVING TO SAY YOU'RE SORRY...
...retaliation, Griffin began a campaign of harassment against Petrillo; according to the memo Petrillo was subjected to "duress and coercion wrought by GSA experts from whom the KGB could learn valuable techniques." Over several months, Petrillo was stripped of his authority and warned that "his situation would get worse." In December 1976 he resigned again and filed a grievance with the Civil Service Commission...
...what the memo implies was an attempt to induce Petrillo to drop the case, Griffin next offered him a lower paying job in the GSA's Federal Supply Service. Petrillo took it but refused to cancel his complaint. Thereafter, the harassment of Petrillo increased. "Not a single piece of paper crossed my desk for eight months," he says. Finally, he asked to be transferred to a new job, even though his salary would be cut by $5,000. But when he was told that he would have to pay his own moving expenses, he decided not to take...
...Griffin angrily dismissed the allegations in Alto's memo as false. Said he: "I never pressured anybody. There was no effort by me to drive anybody out of any agency at any time." With the Carter Administration pressing for investigators to net some "bigger fish," and Republicans clamoring for an independent probe of the growing fraud and mismanagement scandal, the charges are certain to be thoroughly aired in the next round of Senate hearings on the GSA shenanigans that opens this week...