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...Among them: his relationship to San Francisco Lawyer E. Robert Wallach, who has been indicted on influence-peddling charges; assistance Meese gave to the New York City-based Wedtech Corp., which helped the company win a $32 million Government contract; a financial partnership that Meese had with W. Franklyn Chinn, in which the Attorney General earned an 80% profit in 18 months; and his connection to a plan to make secret payments to Israeli officials in return for their promise not to disrupt a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline...
...report that Swiss Financier Bruce Rappaport paid Wallach $150,000 for helping promote the Iraqi pipeline. Senate investigators traced some of that money to an investment account that also held $52,000 of personal savings by Meese. This commingled fund was managed by a Wedtech director, W. Franklyn Chinn, whom Wallach had introduced to Meese. At times Chinn bought more stock in Meese's name than Meese's investment could pay for, and the deals produced a profit of $40,000 for the Attorney General. The arrangement, according to a Justice official, could be seen as an indirect payoff...
Wallach and Chinn have taken their Fifth Amendment protection against self- incrimination rather than cooperate with McKay in the Meese probe. For his part, Meese contends he knew nothing about the details of the Chinn investments...
...Chinn said the societies' alumni are reluctant to accept women partly because they fear going co-ed will hurt networking at the societies. But she said another society, Skull and Bones, was also thinking of going...
...Chinn said, "it legitimizes [the arguments] if an equivalent institution does...