Word: marstons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...facts, however, speak differently. Pressed by the assembled reporters, he admitted that he was called by Eilberg. He added, however, he had talked to Bell before his telephone conversation with Eilberg. Another untruth. Bell has repeatedly told reporters that he had discussed the Marston case with the president three or four days after the Eilberg call...
...news conference, Carter had become so deeply enmeshed in his own maze of lies that there would be no turning back. Mistake or not, Marston would be fired, if only to save the White House and Justice Department from embarassment. Marston was fired on January 20th, prevented from completing his four-year term...
...Twice he lied at his press conference. Twice he was caught. Both times, he presented a somewhat different story from that of his attorney general. Why did the president who campaigned on a platform of an "open administration deceive the American people? He wanted to hasten the removal of Marston because he was a Republican U.S. attorney determined to clean up the Democratic machine of Philadelphia. Replacing a federal appointee of an opposing political party was nothing new--political patronage has existed and been practiced by successive administrations for many years. But his embarassment over playing the established rules...
...Marston learned last July that Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.) had allegedly secured a $14.5 million federal grant for financing the new wing. Eilberg's law firm subsequently obtained the rights to handle the construction contract and the hospital contracted the engineering firm recommended to them by Flood. Based on this information, Marston began a full-fledged investigation, aided by the testimony of a former Flood aide, Stephen Elko, who turned state's evidence after his recent bribery conviction in Los Angeles last October...
...November 13, 11 days after the signing of Elko's immunity papers, Marston took aside Associate U.S. Attorney General Michael Egan at a Washington conference of United States Attorneys to ask Egan whether he would be kept on to finish out his term. Egan informed him then of the Eilberg-Carter and Carter-Bell conversations. Three days later, on November 16, Marston met with Russell T. Baker, the number two man in the criminal division of Justice, to tell him about the active status of the investigation into Eilberg's dealings with the Hahnemann Hospital, and to suggest that...