Word: conflict-of-interest
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Because of his medical condition, his lawyers contend, Deaver could have been telling the truth when he told a congressional subcommittee and then a grand jury that he could not remember details about lobbying efforts that may have violated federal conflict-of-interest laws. Deaver claimed not to recall meetings or telephone conversations with White House and Cabinet officials during which he allegedly pushed for favors for clients such as TWA, Rockwell International, Philip Morris and the governments of Canada, South Korea and Puerto Rico...
Onetime White House Political Director Lyn Nofziger was indicted last week on six conflict-of-interest charges by a federal grand jury in Washington. Within months after Nofziger left the Administration in January 1982, the grand jury said, he lobbied the Administration on behalf of the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, the Fairchild Republic Co. and the Wedtech Corp., which is accused of paying off public officials in exchange for lucrative no-bid Government contracts. Nofziger was indicted under the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which prohibits high public officials from lobbying their former agencies for one year after leaving...
...card to visit a daughter in Texas, vacation in Florida and attend the Southern Baptist Convention, claiming that as mayor he was on duty 24 hours a day. He and his brother Knox, a former judge, owned Smyrna's Chevrolet dealership, which serviced cars for the city. A conflict-of-interest suit filed against Sam dragged on for seven years, through two of his re-elections. Then, facing an impending decree from a judge that he leave office, the mayor abruptly resigned this month...
Outwardly, Deaver maintained his equanimity in the wake of the long expected indictment. In a prepared statement Deaver asserted, "I am confident that I have not committed any perjury." He took comfort in the fact that he was not accused of more substantive conflict-of-interest charges, a development that led Deaver and observers in the Washington legal fraternity to suspect that Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. does not have a particularly strong case against...
...very least, the legal uncertainty may encourage some witnesses to snub investigators in the Iranscam probe and other inquiries (among them, the investigation of former Reagan Aide Lyn Nofziger on conflict-of-interest charges). The threat is serious enough that Justice Department officials and congressional leaders are talking of a possible compromise: President Reagan could reappoint the same independent counsel himself, thus circumventing the constitutional problem. Says Stanley Brand, former counsel to the House of Representatives: "Unless they work this out, we could be headed for a crisis of confidence in the administration of justice...