Word: marstons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter and his Attorney General Griffin Bell. But when the Senate Judiciary Committee began to consider Benjamin R. Civiletti's nomination as Deputy Attorney General last week, the mood was surprisingly low-key. Only a narrow attack was mounted on the ouster of Philadelphia's U.S. Attorney, David Marston, the issue expected to dominate the hearings this week. Said Wyoming Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop: "There was no reason why Marston should not have been fired as a Republican; the only question is the timing...
Civiletti, 42, a quietly decisive trial lawyer plucked from private practice in Baltimore on the recommendation of Carter Adviser Charles Kirbo, had his brief encounter with the Marston affair while serving as head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. Marston had told a Civiletti aide, Russell ("Tim") Baker, that Pennsylvania Congressman Joshua Eilberg was involved in a corruption investigation. Carter and Bell have said they did not know that Eilberg was a target at the time they agreed to his request to dump Marston. But what escaped their notice is another question...
...time; that there was no change in its status from when he was first informed of it in August. He also swears he twice told the head of the criminal division, Benjamin Civiletti, about the investigation of Eilberg. "My notes indicate that I reported my conversation with Marston to Mr. Civiletti some time on or after November 25, 1977," Baker has stated...
...curious phenomenon appears: not only do Baker's statements contradict Marston's, but they don't quite fit into the picture Civiletti has painted either. Civiletti claims the only time he heard about the case was in the spring; Baker says he told him in August. That fact notwithstanding, Civiletti says, "I have never heard anything more concerning the matter and I do not know anything about the Philadelphia U.S. Attorney's investigation of any matters, subjects or persons...
Benjamin Civiletti went before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week to begin confirmation hearings on his appointment as the new U.S. Deputy Attorney General. The committee said last week the Marston case would certainly be a primary area of questioning, but we should seriously wonder whether they will bear in mind the statement made by Gil Scutti upon his January 21 resignation as the chief of Marston's criminal division immediately following Marston's removal. Evoking the "stay away" advice given by Nixon White House aide Gordon Strachan before the Senate Watergate Committee five years ago, Scutti said...