Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer of 1981, California State Judge Eugene Lynch asked San Francisco Attorney E. Robert Wallach to talk to his good friend Edwin Meese, then White House Counsellor, about helping the judge get an appointment to the federal bench. Wallach says it was "likely" that he did so. At a hearing on Sept. 17 of that year, Lynch orally approved a payment of $1 million to Wallach's law firm as its part of a $1.74 million out-of-court settlement won by the firm for two girls who had been badly burned in a tent fire. The following January Lynch...
...nationally televised news conference, Reagan also said he had "every confidence" in the personal integrity of embattled Attorney Gefneral Edwin Meese III. But he said he could not comment on reports of the investigation of Meese's role in a proposed Middle East oil pipeline...
...hoped Reagan would cut out the graft and corruption on Capitol Hill. But Reagan's buddies--Lyn Nofziger, Michael Deaver, Edwin Meese, and a couple dozen others--have been less than ethical. She wanted honesty in government--instead she got the Iran-contra scandal. She wanted a hands-on president--instead she got one who slept through Cabinet meetings and delegated decision-making to junior staff members...
Nofziger's lawyers did not deny that on April 8, 1982, he wrote to Edwin Meese, then Counsellor to the President, urging that Wedtech get the $32 million Army contract. They conceded that Nofziger talked to National Security Council aides on Sept. 24, 1982, about the Fairchild planes and wrote to a Meese deputy on Aug. 20 of that year about the seaman jobs. But these overtures did not violate the Ethics Act, they argued, because the law prohibits lobbying only on matters of "direct and substantial interest" to the contacted agencies...
Senior Correspondents: Edwin M. Reingold, Frederick Ungeheuer...