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...extension passed both houses of Congress by sizable majorities, Reagan had little choice but to sign it, despite what he called "strong doubts about its constitutionality." Rejecting the measure would have been especially awkward for the President, since some of those under investigation are among his closest cronies. The Deaver verdict was a victory for Whitney North Seymour Jr., a former U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who was appointed special prosecutor in May 1986. After the verdict, Seymour, himself a Republican, lashed out at the Reagan Administration for its lack of ethical leadership. Without such a guiding example, he said...
...Washington Trial Lawyer James McKay is preparing for the January trial of his influence-peddling case against former White House Political Aide Lyn Nofziger, who, like Deaver, left the White House to become a Washington lobbyist. In a related investigation, McKay is looking into Attorney General Edwin Meese's links to the Wedtech Corp., one of Nofziger's clients. Meese is also being investigated by Walsh...
Former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael K. Deaver stood stiffly beside his lawyer in a federal courtroom in Washington last week, expecting the worst. His lawyers, in a long-shot gamble, had presented no evidence to counter the assertion by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. that Deaver had repeatedly lied under oath about his lucrative lobbying business. When the jury returned guilty verdicts on three of five counts, canny Defense Counsel Jack Miller manfully shouldered the blame: "We didn't put on a defense because we didn't think we had to. The jury verdict suggests...
Maybe not. By keeping Deaver off the witness stand, where he would have been subjected to withering cross-examination, Miller won not-guilty verdicts on two key counts. Moreover, Deaver and others are challenging the constitutionality of the 1978 law that established independent counsel. Two of Deaver's three guilty verdicts came on charges of lying to Seymour's grand jury that was investigating him for possible ethics-law violations. If the independent-counsel law is overturned, Seymour's work would be thrown out, and Deaver would be liable for retrial only on a single count of falsely testifying...
...seven-week trial provided a rare glimpse into the world of Washington special pleading, particularly at the Reagan White House. A top Boeing executive told the court that his company chose Deaver to lobby for a lucrative contract to build a new Air Force One because of Deaver's familiarity with the "personal tastes and preferences of the President." Deaver was paid $250,000, and Boeing eventually landed the $200 million contract...