Word: whitney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Whitney North Seymour Jr., who resigned this month as a U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, wants the FBI broken up along functional lines into two separate agencies: a criminal-investigation bureau and a spy-chasing national security unit. Seymour believes that a conflict of interest between those two duties made the FBI ripe for political exploitation by the White House...
Also selected were: Ellen H. Goodman '63, a columnist for The Boston Globe; Whitney M. Gould, a reporter for the Capitol Times of Madison, Wis.; Edwin P. Hudgins, City Editor of the Gainsville, Ga., Times; and, Morton M. Kondracke, a reporter for The Chicago Sun-Times...
...Mitchell and Stans with conspiring to obstruct justice, conspiring to defraud the U.S., and perjury. Each man is accused of lying six times to the grand jury, which had been meeting in Manhattan for three months on the Vesco matter. Announcing the indictments in a halting voice, U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr., a devoted Republican who was appointed by Nixon when Mitchell headed the Justice Department, declared: "I regard this as a sad day in a series of sad days for those concerned about integrity in the administration of justice...
...against Vesco, the re-election committee returned the money. Perhaps by coincidence, the Washington Star-News reported five days before that the Government had begun an investigation into the donation. The probe began when an unidentified witness came forward in Manhattan earlier in January and volunteered to U.S. Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. that he would tell about the transaction...
This was an unprecedented request, and some legal experts speculated that Biaggi may have deliberately made the motion an impossible one, so that it would be thrown out by the court. In any case, United States Attorney Whitney North Seymour Jr. argued that the entire testimony should be released, with the deletion of third-party names. This is what Judge Edmund L. Palmieri on Thursday decided should be done, ruling that the Biaggi motion was improper because it tried to proscribe the court's action...