Word: deaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carl Icahn. The beleaguered company petitions the Transportation Department to hold a hearing that would delay Icahn's bid, but it looks like the request will be turned down. Searching for other options, TWA needs to buy time -- and influence. Enter former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. That very month Deaver has left Ronald Reagan's employ to start a Washington "consulting" firm. According to Jon Ash, a former TWA executive, Deaver says, "I can give ((Transportation Secretary)) Elizabeth Dole a call." Deaver...
June 1985. Philip Morris wants to break into the closed South Korean cigarette market. Its competitor, R.J. Reynolds, has already hired Reagan's former National Security Adviser Richard Allen to press its case. Deaver tells Philip Morris that he has a close relationship with South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, whose 1981 state visit to Washington he arranged. Deaver goes on to describe how he and Chun embraced in the Oval Office. His fee: $150,000. Deaver goes to Seoul, is treated like a dignitary, meets the President and other top leaders, and links the cigarette issue to pending trade...
Although Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. asked that expert testimony on the alcoholism issue be disallowed, Presiding Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has agreed to hear medical witnesses on Deaver's problems. In other cases, judges have allowed testimony on whether alcohol impaired a defendant's intent to commit a crime. To prove perjury, Seymour must show that Deaver intended to lie under oath...
Legal experts are dubious about the prospects of an alcohol-related defense, though many believe it could be used to win some leniency for Deaver in sentencing. "This defense has been frequently used and has almost never been successful," says Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "It's a defense of the last resort." Explains Lawyer Michael Kennedy, who cited his client's drug dependency in unsuccessfully appealing for a new murder trial for Schoolmistress Jean Harris: "Juries tend to look at addiction as something for which you must bear the responsibility. Therefore they are disinclined to let people...
...Deaver seems to have made a strong comeback from alcoholism, and is dealing well with the strain of his impending trial. "He is a man at peace with himself," says a friend. "He's in marvelous mental shape, relaxed, pleasant and interested in gardening." Indeed, the day before jury selection began, Deaver was in his garden planting spring bulbs, a gesture that bespeaks some hope for the future...