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Call it the Week of the Special Prosecutor. The guilty verdict in the case of former White House Aide Michael Deaver was the first obtained by an independent counsel since the Ethics in Government Act formalized the terms of the job a decade ago. One day before the conviction, a reluctant Ronald Reagan signed into law a bill extending the counsel provisions of the ethics measure for five years. Meanwhile, Washington was bracing itself for the possibility of a raft of criminal indictments in another probe by a special prosecutor: the Iran-contra investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Debate Over Special Prosecutors | 12/28/1987 | See Source »

Within nine months of leaving the White House, Deaver and his firm had signed more than $3 million worth of lobbying contracts with large corporations and several foreign governments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deaver Prosecutor Attacks Lack of Ethics | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

...Deaver was not charged with violating the ethics law itself. Seymour argued to jurors that Deaver's false testimony "blocked the investigation into that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deaver Prosecutor Attacks Lack of Ethics | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

During the trial, Seymour charged that Deaver had lied to spare Reagan and his wife, Nancy, any embarrassment from revelations that he was using his White House connections to sign six-figure lobbying contracts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deaver Prosecutor Attacks Lack of Ethics | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

These loopholes technically allowed many of the contacts that Deaver made within the White House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deaver Prosecutor Attacks Lack of Ethics | 12/18/1987 | See Source »

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