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...American injustice system," Barry declared after his sentencing. What lends credence to Barry's charge is the leniency shown to other politically prominent defendants who happen to be white. Oliver North escaped a prison sentence for his three $ felony convictions in 1989, since overturned. Reagan insider Michael Deaver also avoided jail two years ago. Deaver, who could have been given up to 15 years for felony perjury following his influence-peddling trial, received a $100,000 fine and 1,500 hours of community service from his sentencing judge: Thomas Penfield Jackson...
...both of them were beyond the reach of infamy. The 74-year- old Casey died of a brain tumor just before he was to face the Iran-contra committee. Presidential aide Michael Deaver wrote that the director thus became "the logical candidate to be fingered as the evil genius behind Iran- contra. The secrets would be buried with him. And the President would be protected...
Coelho was sighted on Capitol Hill one morning having breakfast with Mike Deaver, an early victim of the ethics monster. Was he meeting for advice or commiseration? Coelho, a longtime friend of fellow Californian Deaver, would...
Alas, the go-for-it Texas system has in the 1980s become the American system. From former Attorney General Edwin Meese (not indicted) to imagemaker Michael Deaver (convicted), Ronald Reagan's closest advisers ran aground in part because they envied the easy California wealth of the President's kitchen Cabinet. From Abscam to Wedtech, East Coast Congressmen have found it hard to resist fast-money blandishments and outright bribery. Texas politicians like Jim Wright are far from unique in confusing doing well with doing good...
...Wright investigation began last June when Republicans, stung by the improprieties of Mike Deaver and Ed Meese, set out to make sleaze a bipartisan issue. As the highest-ranking Democrat, Wright, whose slicked-back hair, caterpillar eyebrows and leering grin give him the look of a wheeler-dealer, was a good target. After revelations of an unusual deal in which a Texas publisher paid Wright 55% royalties -- three or four times the usual rate -- for a collection of the Speaker's speeches and anecdotes, Common Cause and 72 Republicans asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate...