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Deaver is the target of probes by the GAO, the Justice Department and the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. At issue is whether he illegally represented private clients on matters he dealt with as an Administration official. Deaver has asked that an independent counsel be appointed to look into the charges...
Deaver may have participated in as many as 15 U.S.-Canadian discussions of acid rain before he left the White House last May, said James F. Hinchman, the GAO deputy general counsel, who testified last week before the investigations subcommittee chaired by Democratic Congressman John Dingell of Michigan. For example, said Hinchman, Deaver actively supported a proposal, later accepted by the Reagan Administration, that the U.S. and Canada appoint special envoys to deal with the acid-rain problem. Less than a week after he quit his White House job, Deaver began talks with Canadian officials that eventually...
...participated while in office. Violators can be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to two years in prison. Deaver insists that "I was never involved personally or substantially on the substantive issue of acid rain. I couldn't tell you today what acid rain means." According to the GAO, however, Deaver and Canadian officials met with Drew Lewis, the special U.S. envoy on acid rain, to discuss the content and timing of the envoy's report, which recommended a $5 billion clean-up plan...
...GAO's 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...
...General Accounting Office and the inspector general's office of the Agency for International Development have done no better. "These audits have not found instances of misuse or misappropriation," State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb said last week. A GAO team is currently in Manila trying to substantiate suspicions of misspent funds, but State Department officials expect no new findings when the team's report is published next month. Meanwhile, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Va., is looking into whether millions of dollars in military aid have made their way into the pockets of high-ranking Philippine military officers...