Word: deaver
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Once courted by influence seekers for his direct access to the White House, former Reagan Aide Michael Deaver now stands almost alone. His formerly lucrative Washington consulting business is down to two clients, and Deaver will not disclose their names. He has missed the deadline for his book about Ronald and Nancy Reagan, worth a reported $500,000 advance from Publisher William Morrow a year ago. A late convert to physical fitness, Deaver, 48, has even taken to smoking again. Last week he had all the more reason to puff away: after a ten-month investigation by an independent counsel...
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...
...page indictment accuses Deaver of deliberately lying three times to the federal grand jury and twice to the congressional subcommittee that first looked into his lobbying activities. The grand jury says Deaver lied when he denied participating in White House discussions on acid rain on behalf of the government of Canada, one of his first clients, and he lied about arranging a meeting between President Reagan and an emissary from the government of South Korea. He also perjured himself or made false statements, said the indictment, about his lobbying efforts for the Smith Barney brokerage firm...
Though North's suit has not interrupted Walsh's probe, Deaver won at least a temporary victory. Seymour was ready to ask a grand jury to indict Deaver on four counts of perjury stemming from his testimony before a House subcommittee and grand jury last year. As a courtesy, Seymour telephoned Deaver's attorneys on Tuesday to inform them of the impending indictments. But Deaver's lawyers, led by former Nixon Attorney Herbert ("Jack") Miller, beat Seymour to the courthouse the following morning. After hearing their arguments, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued an order blocking any indictments until...
...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, I don't think we can side with them as much as we want...