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Nofziger's lawyers did not deny that on April 8, 1982, he wrote to Edwin Meese, then Counsellor to the President, urging that Wedtech get the $32 million Army contract. They conceded that Nofziger talked to National Security Council aides on Sept. 24, 1982, about the Fairchild planes and wrote to a Meese deputy on Aug. 20 of that year about the seaman jobs. But these overtures did not violate the Ethics Act, they argued, because the law prohibits lobbying only on matters of "direct and substantial interest" to the contacted agencies...
...Army, which had considered Wedtech unqualified for the work, agreed to award the no- bid contract to the Bronx firm after an unusual White House meeting in the office of James Jenkins, then Meese's top deputy. Jenkins later went to work for Wedtech. At the time Meese was Counsellor to the President. Giuliani stressed that the defendants are not charged with illegally influencing Meese, but were indicted for the allegedly unlawful way in which they obtained payoffs for trying...
...Nixon memo to White House Counsellor Ehrlichman suggesting legislation that would require financial disclosure by judges as a "subtle and effective way to get at some of the real crooks on the highest court...
...think that's allowed. "I object! Corpus Jurus Secundum! No ex post facto! The counsellor is leading the witness! Habeus Corpus! Philosophae Naturalis Principia Mathematica! I'm hungry! Where's my money...
When Wedtech set its sights on a multimillion-dollar Army contract for 6- h.p. engines in 1981, for instance, San Francisco Attorney E. Robert Wallach was hired as a Wedtech consultant. Wallach, an old friend and lawyer of then Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese's, was allegedly given some $500,000 worth of company stock over several years in addition to a retainer for his services. For several months Wallach sent detailed memos to Meese concerning Wedtech's efforts to win the engine contract...