Nomination of Dominick L. DiCarlo To Be an Assistant Secretary of State

The President today announced his intention to nominate Dominick L. DiCarlo to be an Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters, vice K. Mathea Falco, resigned.

Mr. DiCarlo has been a member of the New York State Assembly since 1965, and a practicing attorney since 1954. In 1959-62 he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, during the last 2 years of which he was Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. Mr. DiCarlo was vice chairman of the New York Joint Legislative Committee on Crime in 1969-70 and the Select Committee on Correctional Institutions and Programs (Attica Investigation) in 1972-73. In 1971-74 he chaired the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Codes and was an ex-officio member of the New York State Law Revision Commission and the New York State Judicial Conference. In 1975-78 he was deputy minority leader of the New York State Assembly.

Mr. DiCarlo graduated from St. John's College, Brooklyn (B.A., 1950); St. John's University School of Law (LL.B., 1953); and New York University School of Law (LL.M., 1957).

Mr. DiCarlo is married, has four children, and resides in Brooklyn, N.Y. He was born March 11, 1928, in Brooklyn.