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...Philadelphia Attorney, David W. Marston, 35, is a Tennessee-born Ford Administration appointee who during 18 months in Pennsylvania has both shown a talent for public relations and built himself a generally deserved reputation as a dogged attacker of misdeeds in high places-which in the Keystone State are mostly occupied by Democrats. Earlier this month, word seeped out that Carter's Justice Department, having done nothing about replacing Republican Marston for a year, had formed a blue-ribbon panel of Philadelphia lawyers to recommend a replacement. The ensuing ruckus in Philadelphia raised questions at Carter's press...
Carter handled the Marston queries poorly. At 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...
Griffin Bell was more forthright. Said he: "We have two parties in this country. The In party right now happens to be the Democrats. There are a lot of complaints about Mr. Marston. They say we ought to have a Democrat as U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia...
Bell says that he decided early on that Marston, who had been an aide to Republican Senator Richard Schweiker with no prosecutorial experience to speak of, should be replaced. But lawyer friends of Bell in Philadelphia argued that he should be retained for a year since he had some major corruption investigations under way and his removal would smack of an attempt to take the heat off errant Democratic officeholders. In short, the timing was all wrong...
...timing is even worse. Marston has endeared himself to Philadelphians by being the first prosecutor in recent years to hit political corruption hard. In May, Marston got the state speaker of the house, Herbert Fineman. convicted of obstruction of justice in a case involving influence peddling to help students gain admission to medical schools. Just last month the most powerful member of the state senate, Philadelphia Democrat Henry J. Cianfrani. pleaded guilty to 106 counts on various charges-including obstruction of justice, tax evasion and mail fraud-involving efforts to place his girlfriend and others in no-show jobs...