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...executive agencies but not the President explicitly is interpreted as not applying to him." But critics protest that this would put the President above the law. Says Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe: "Congress's control over the purse would be rendered a nullity if the President's pocket could conceal a slush fund dedicated to purposes and projects prohibited by the laws of the U.S." Democratic Congressman Edward Boland observed that if Reagan wanted to claim exemption from the amendment, he should have done so when it was enacted. Instead, Boland noted, Reagan signed the bill without any public comment...
...representative of a British West Indies-based bank that was never registered with authorities. During that time the bank invested in fraudulent projects that cost depositors at least $4 million. Some depositors were innocent victims, prosecutors said, while others were illegally trying to conceal their income. In a separate allegation, prosecutors charged that Anderson evaded taxes by putting a woman with whom he had a "personal relationship" on the payroll of a company he controlled, even though she did no work...
That two important contenders for the presidency of the United States both have hairdos large enough to conceal a small firearm has not gone unnoticed, however...
...aftermath of the disclosure, the chronology North produced was full of inaccuracies, leading the commission to suggest that he "actively sought to conceal important information...
Indeed, Hall was so obedient that she followed North's orders last November to retype four NSC memos, possibly to conceal President Reagan's role in the arms trading with Iran. Hall helped North shred hundreds of documents the day before Justice Department officials were scheduled to review the agency's files. And on the day North was fired, according to a source close to the investigation, she removed papers from his office and gave them to her former chief hours before the premises were sealed...