Benjamin Civiletti, the last attorney general in the Carter administration who capped a series of internal Justice Department reforms that aimed to address Watergate-era presidential abuses of power, dies at 87
WASHINGTON—Benjamin Civiletti, the last attorney general in the Carter administration who capped a series of internal Justice Department reforms that aimed to address Watergate-era presidential abuses of power, died Sunday of Parkinson’s at his home in Lutherville, Md. He was 87 years old.
A trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor in Baltimore, Mr. Civiletti joined the Justice Department in 1977 as head of its criminal division. He was named deputy attorney general the following year, and President Jimmy Carter chose him to replace Attorney General Griffin Bell in July 1979.
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