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WASHINGTON--The government's top ethics officer asked the Justice Department yesterday to investigate whether Michael K. Deaver, a former White House aide who operates a lobbying business, violated conflict-of-interest laws...
...credited with brilliantly managing Ronald Reagan's public image, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael K. Deaver is running into flak with his own. Now a Washington lobbyist, Deaver is under investigation for trading on Government contacts built up as an Administration insider. Last week he got a boost from the President, who swore that Deaver "never...
Next day the Wall Street Journal disclosed that in March Deaver sounded out Fred Fielding, the departing White House counsel, about a job with Deaver's firm. At the time, Fielding's office happened to be conducting an inquiry into possible conflict-of-interest violations by Deaver. Fielding was not interested in the job feeler, but he quickly withdrew from the probe...
...close friend of Ronald and Nancy Reagan's, Michael Deaver is one of Washington's more powerful influence peddlers. But the onetime White House deputy chief of staff raised eyebrows when he met with Office of Management and Budget Director James Miller III in February to discuss the B-1 bomber, built by Deaver client Rockwell International. Federal rules bar former senior officials from lobbying their old agencies for a year after they quit their posts, and Deaver's quarantine lasts until...
...White House insists that Deaver violated no regulation, since he worked for the White House Office, a small but separate entity in the Executive Office, which includes OMB. Besides, huffed Deaver, if he had truly wanted to trade on his friendship, "I wouldn't have wasted my time on Jim Miller. I would have gone right over to the President...