Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...committee was unusually swift, especially for that panel. By a unanimous vote, after a persuasive presentation by its staff, the committee last week charged Pennsylvania Democrat Joshua Eilberg of illegally pocketing $100,000 in legal fees in connection with his efforts to get a $ 14.5 million federal grant for Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital...
Eilberg, who denies the charges, was the Congressman who called President Carter ten months ago and successfully expedited the removal of David Marston as U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia. Marston was conducting an investigation into the same charges. That probe is continuing, in close cooperation with the ethics committee, and a Justice Department official said an indictment could come "in a matter of weeks." Eilberg's Pennsylvania colleague in the House, Daniel Flood, who was indicted earlier this month on perjury charges in another case, is also being investigated for his activities on behalf of the hospital...
...principal of Upper Merion High School in suburban Philadelphia and, more recently, a $30,000-a-year coordinator of school services, Jay Smith, 50, carved a name for himself as a tough administrator. An Army Reserve colonel, he was known as a no-nonsense expert on school discipline who once advocated expelling 60 "dangerous" students because of their "criminalistic" behavior...
...Last month he was caught allegedly breaking into a parked van and brandishing a gun to boot. When cops searched his car, they found a mask, guns and burglar's tools. The next day a longtime friend of Smith's, Harold Jones Jr., a librarian for a Philadelphia high school, was arrested leaving Smith's house with several pounds of marijuana. Subsequently, another county charged Smith with stealing $53,000 from a Sears, Roebuck store last year...
...Philadelphia-Montreal rained...