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Both men decided, without telling Meese, that the Attorney General should be investigated by Independent Counsel McKay, who was probing former White House Political Adviser Lyn Nofziger's lobbying for New York City's scandal-tarred Wedtech Corp. As White House Counsellor in 1982, Meese helped Wedtech get what he called a "fair hearing" in landing a $32 million Army contract. A rare White House meeting to facilitate the contract had been held in the office of a top Meese aide, James Jenkins...
...want it to go to the independent counsel," says a department insider. "He made it known to Weld that it shouldn't go anywhere; it should be killed." On May 11, apparently aware that he could not block the probe, Meese pre-empted the impending announcement by publicly inviting McKay to look into his dealings with Wedtech...
...further allegations against Meese surfaced, Burns and Weld became more concerned. At senior staff meetings, they confronted Meese directly, citing newspaper stories and asking, "What about this, Ed? And this?" Meese still shrugged the reports off as "partisan attacks." Both officials had expected McKay to wind up his investigations quickly, but as the probe broadened instead, they decided that someone had to do something. Said a White House source: "They had endured the situation as long as they could, but there appeared to be no end in sight...
Wallach and Chinn have taken their Fifth Amendment protection against self- incrimination rather than cooperate with McKay in the Meese probe. For his part, Meese contends he knew nothing about the details of the Chinn investments...
Buoyed by McKay's statement that he is not facing indictment, the Attorney General announced that he intends to fly off Wednesday on a scheduled week- long trip to Latin America to seek greater cooperation with U.S. antidrug programs. Yet Meese is not in the best position to pressure foreign leaders. When other U.S. officials have asked Mexico, for example, to get tougher on its officials accused of drug corruption, the response has been disconcerting. After citing Meese's problems, some Mexican diplomats have added with a sardonic smile, "It's like Wedtech. These cases are very difficult to make...