What is Benjamin Civiletti?
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Ben Civiletti |image = 1Benjamin Civiletti.jpg |office = 73rd [[United States Attorney General]] |president = [[Jimmy Carter]] |term_start = August 16, 1979 |term_end = January 19, 1981 |predecessor = [[Griffin Bell]] |successor = [[William French Smith]] |office1 = 17th [[United States Deputy Attorney General]] |president1 = [[Jimmy Carter]] |term_start1 = 1978 |term_end1 = 1979 |predecessor1 = [[Peter F. Flaherty]] |successor1 = [[Charles B. Renfrew]] |office2 = [[United States Assistant Attorney General#Criminal Division|United States Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division]] |president2 = [[Jimmy Carter]] |term_start2 = 1977 |term_end2 = 1978 |predecessor2 = [[Dick Thornburgh]] |successor2 = [[Philip Heymann]] |birth_name = Benjamin Richard Civiletti |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|7|17}} |birth_place = [[Peekskill, New York]], [[United States|U.S.]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |spouse = Gaile Lundgren |children = 3 |education = [[Johns Hopkins University]] {{small|(BA)}}<br>[[University of Maryland, Baltimore]] {{small|(LLB)}} }} '''Benjamin Richard Civiletti''' (born July 17, 1935) is an American politician. He was the [[United States Attorney General]] during the last year and a half of the [[Jimmy Carter|Carter administration]], from 1979 to 1981. He was the first Italian American to serve as Attorney General. Since 2001, Civiletti is one of the three members of the Independent Review Board,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://teamster.org/content/independent-review-board|title=The Independent Review Board|access-date=2018-01-19|archive-date=2019-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011231610/https://teamster.org/content/independent-review-board|url-status=dead}}</ref> a board that the [[International Brotherhood of Teamsters]] union must answer to when allegations of corru