Word: deavere
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hinchman also stated that Deaver may have violated Government ethics laws by "his very presence" at the meeting with Lewis. Deaver is barred from officially contacting anyone in the White House for a year after leaving office, and the GAO found that Lewis should have been considered a White House official. Deaver maintains that Lewis, though he is a White House appointee who keeps an office in the nearby Old Executive Office Building, is in fact a State Department employee...
...Deaver affair has also raised some political ruckus in Canada, where opposition Liberal Party members suggested that Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's government may have knowingly violated U.S. laws by hiring Deaver. In particular, they questioned the possible role played by Allan Gotlieb, Canada's highly regarded Ambassador to Washington, in recruiting Deaver. The House of Commons' External Affairs Committee will decide this week whether to launch a formal investigation...
Former White House Counsel Fred Fielding was dragged into the growing mess by a member of the congressional panel, Representative Gerald Sikorski, Democrat from Minnesota. Sikorski charged that during a conflict-of-interest review of Deaver in February 1985, Fielding responded to a request from the Government Ethics Office by providing "incomplete information beneficial to Mr. Deaver" the day after an associate of Deaver's approached Fielding about going to work for Deaver's firm. Fielding denied that he had done anything improper...
Until now Mike Deaver has been a spectacular alchemist of power, personality and communication. That is the irony of his predicament. "I'm in trouble with my public relations," he said ruefully, eating his breakfast egg as another chapter unfolded last week in his political drama. Did he violate the law with his new lobbying firm, booking megabucks in business within months of leaving the White House? Did he step beyond propriety and soil the presidency? "No, no, no," he declared, and added a few more...
...would not be sitting at breakfast explaining himself if something had not gone wrong. He has not called or seen the President or Mrs. Reagan for weeks. The $18 million proposition for buying the Deaver firm by London's Saatchi & Saatchi has been abandoned...