Benjamin Civiletti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Benjamin Civiletti

American government official

Date of Birth: 17-Jul-1935

Place of Birth: Peekskill, New York, United States

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Benjamin Richard Civiletti (born July 17, 1935) served as the United States Attorney General during the Carter administration, from 1979 to 1981.
He was the first Italian American to serve as Attorney General.
He is a former senior partner in the Baltimore-based law firm of Venable LLP (known until 2003 as Venable, Baetjer & Howard), where he specialized in commercial litigation and internal investigations, and in 2005 became the first U.S.
lawyer to charge $1,000 an hour. Since 2001, Civiletti has been one of the three members of the Independent Review Board, 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 by a federal district court judgment.