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After spending 14 months and $1.7 million investigating Edwin Meese, Independent Counsel James McKay last week offered the outgoing Attorney General one small consolation: he will not be prosecuted for violating any of the laws he had been entrusted to enforce. But far from the "vindication" that Meese had confidently predicted, McKay's 830-page report asserts that Ronald Reagan's longtime friend "willfully" filed a false tax return and "probably" violated conflict-of-interest laws. If Meese's legal troubles are behind him, his ethical behavior remains troubling...
Meese was outraged that McKay would accuse him of unlawful conduct without giving him his day in court to rebut the charges. Meese termed McKay's tactics "absolutely at odds with every principle of our system of justice" and said he would fire any prosecutor in his department who promoted such "a false implication of wrongdoing...
...speech, long in the making, was delayed until the release of the report by independent counsel James M. McKay on Attorney General Edwin Meese, which said Meese probably broke two tax laws and twice violated a criminal conflict-of-interest statute. McKay sought no charges...
...Because that return did not disclose any information about the 1985 securities sales, it was materially false," McKay declared...
...McKay also disclosed that Wallach, who is under indictment for alleged racketeering in the Wedtech scandal, facilitated two loans to Meese totalling...