Word: conflict-of-interest
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...upending the independent counsel will not be easy, for both legal and political reasons. "There's a need for an independent conflict-of-interest investigation in the Executive Branch," says University of Texas Law Professor Harold Bruff. "The courts will recognize that need." The Administration, meanwhile, is in an awkward position. Attorney General Edwin Meese and other Reagan Justice Department officials have publicly opposed the special prosecutor, yet they may find it difficult to support North and Deaver without opening themselves to charges of fostering a cover-up. Says one Justice Department official: "In this political climate...
...Justice Department confirmed last week that it is considering the appointment of an independent counsel to determine whether Nofziger violated federal conflict-of-interest laws in 1982 by helping a New York City defense supplier win a $31 million contract to produce small engines for the Army. Nofziger admitted to the New York Times that he signed a letter sent on behalf of the company to James E. Jenkins, who was the top aide to then Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese. The letter, written in May 1982, just four months after Nofziger left the White House, urged Jenkins to intercede with...
...subcommittee alleged that Deaver "testified falsely" about using Administration contacts to help a number of clients. The panel charged that among the contacts Deaver failed to acknowledge were former White House National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane and Office of Management and Budget Director James Miller III. Under conflict-of-interest laws, Deaver, as a senior Executive Branch official, was prohibited for one year from lobbying the White House...
...tennis court. Deaver has also had to break off negotiations for an $18 million sale of his consulting firm to a British public relations conglomerate, Saatchi & Saatchi. And if that were not enough bad news, the General Accounting Office reported last week that he may have violated federal conflict-of-interest laws that carry criminal penalties...
Former White House Counsel Fred Fielding was dragged into the growing mess by a member of the congressional panel, Representative Gerald Sikorski, Democrat from Minnesota. Sikorski charged that during a conflict-of-interest review of Deaver in February 1985, Fielding responded to a request from the Government Ethics Office by providing "incomplete information beneficial to Mr. Deaver" the day after an associate of Deaver's approached Fielding about going to work for Deaver's firm. Fielding denied that he had done anything improper...