Word: prosecutor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suit to block the New York Times's publication of the Pentagon papers; of a heart attack; in New York City. An affable, erudite New Yorker, Gurfein graduated from Harvard Law School in 1930 and became a chief aide to Thomas E. Dewey, then special state rackets prosecutor, later New York's Governor. He served as one of the prosecutors at the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes trials, practiced law privately for 25 years, and was nominated by President Nixon as a judge for a U.S. district court in New York in April 1971. Two months later...
...Special prosecutor for Jordan...
...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...
Civiletti said that he had found no rea son to prosecute Jordan on the basis of evidence turned up so far, but nonetheless 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...
...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...