United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
In office March 10, 1977 – May 16, 1978
President
Jimmy Carter
Preceded by
Dick Thornburgh
Succeeded by
Philip Heymann
Personal details
Born
Benjamin Richard Civiletti
(1935-07-17)July 17, 1935 Peekskill, New York, U.S.
Died
October 16, 2022(2022-10-16) (aged 87) Lutherville, Maryland, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouse
Gaile Lundgren
(m. 1958)
Children
3
Education
Johns Hopkins University (AB)
Columbia University
University of Maryland, Baltimore (LLB)
Benjamin Richard Civiletti (July 17, 1935 – October 16, 2022) was an American lawyer who served as the United States Attorney General during the Carter administration, from 1979 to 1981. The first Italian American to lead the U.S. Department of Justice, he previously served as the Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division. Later he was a senior partner in the Baltimore-based law firm of Venable LLP (known until 2003 as Venable, Baetjer & Howard).[1] He specialized in commercial litigation and internal investigations working at Venable LLP.
Beginning in 2001, Civiletti was one of the three members of the Independent Review Board,[2] a board that the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union must answer to when allegations of corruption or organized crime infiltration surface under the terms of a consent decree issued in 1989[3] by a federal district court judgment.[4]
^"Attorney General: Benjamin Richard Civiletti". October 23, 2014. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
^"The Independent Review Board". Archived from the original on October 11, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
^"Teamster Corruption and the Consent Decree". Retrieved October 16, 2019.
^The Independent Review Board Archived August 25, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
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