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After Washington Attorney Jacob Stein took on the court-appointed task last April of investigating Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese's tangled personal finances, Democrats promptly asked him to assess Meese's fitness to serve as Attorney General. Meese's lawyers, on the other hand, urged Stein to declare that "the evidence does not substantiate the loose charges of moral turpitude against Mr. Meese." Stein refused to take either course. In a 385-page report, which was made public last week, Stein concluded that he found no evidence that would support any criminal charges against the President...
Meese clearly did select Edwin W. Thomas as an aide to his White House office after Thomas had offered Meese's wife an interest-free $15,000 loan. The loan was later granted, but Meese failed to report it on his financial-disclosure statements. Stein concluded that Thomas got the job because of his longstanding personal and professional relationship with Meese, rather than as a result of any transaction. While "an inference of willful nondisclosure arguably could be drawn," Stein wrote, he could find no motive for Meese to conceal the loan and therefore he accepted Meese...
...Although Edwin Meese still attends many high-level White House meetings and quietly visited the Republican National Convention in Dallas, he has pretty much dropped from public prominence. But Ronald Reagan's Presidential Counsellor and nominee for Attorney General has re-emerged in the news. Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor appointed last April to probe questions raised at Meese's Senate confirmation hearings, will submit his report to a federal court this week, according to a source familiar with the investigation...
...plays as he spins out florid, ribald fantasias on his family life. His mother, Miss Edwina, screamed whenever she had sex with his father and believed that the rattle of garbage cans in St. Louis was a signal for a black uprising. At 94 she changed her name to Edwin and imagined that a horse had moved into her room: "She'd always wanted a horse as a child. And now that she finally had one, she didn't like...
...budget director, was forced to leave office, tried and found guilty of nothing. So great is the power of stigma, however, that when Mondale tried to make him his campaign director, Lance was forced to step down within three weeks. In addition to making other serious mistakes, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese neglected to report a $15,000 loan to his wife from a friend who later won appointment to a Government post. Meese is still under investigation by a special prosecutor, and his nomination las Attorney General is on hold. Last June, Congressman George Hansen, an Idaho Republican, was sentenced...