Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After all the oversized headlines and gossip-column innuendoes, it looked as if Hamilton Jordan, 35, President Carter's top aide, had managed to ride out the storm. But last week, seven weeks after the FBI submitted its preliminary findings U.S. Attorney General Benjamin R. Civiletti recommended that a special prosecutor be appointed to look further into allegations that Jordan had snorted cocaine. Soon afterward, the Department of Justice announced that New York City Attorney Arthur H. Christy, 56, a Republican, had been appointed to the position by a special federal court...
...felt that he had no choice but to call for a special prosecutor. The reasonlies in the provisions of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, a Watergate-inspired measure designed to keep an Administration from sheltering its own people. When serious accusations are made against an official, the Attorney General must investigate and call for a special prosecutor, unless he finds the charges "so unsubstan- tiated that no further investigation or prosecution is warranted." Oddly enough, the terms of that very same act prevented Civiletti from learning enough about the charges to come to such a judgment. He could...
...Attorney General pointedly asked the special prosecutor to turn over to him evidence that anyone had deliberately lied about Jordan during the investigation. Those who did could be prosecuted for obstruction of justice...
Saying Easterling "made his money as a pimp," Thomas J. Mundy Jr., Suffolk Country assistant district attorney, requested the maximum punishment during his final argument yesterday. The prosecutor said, "He (Easterling) is anything but remorseful" about the crime he committed...
Norman S. Zalkind, Easterling's attorney, said prior to the sentencing yesterday, "We have the automatic right to have the case reviewed, and we will." He added that he would protest McGuire's final instructions to the jury in the appeal...