Word: scandalous
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...unavailable to Meese. As a top White House aide and later as Attorney General, Meese had no constituents; he "represents" the entire nation. By no stretch of the imagination could his attempts to help Wallach push the building of an Iraqi oil pipeline and win Government contracts for the scandal-scarred Wedtech company be considered part of his duty...
...many ways, Baker's tenure at the White House was a strange interlude. He succeeded the tyrannical Donald Regan at the height of the Iran-contra scandal. With his easygoing manner and lack of administrative experience, Baker at first seemed an odd choice for the job. But his steady, conciliatory style proved to be perfectly suited to restoring stability in a besieged Administration...
Although the Reagan Administration's $2.2 trillion defense buildup has been plagued by cost overruns, phony bills from contractors and gold-plated weapons systems that often do not work, this scandal is different. Rarely, if ever, have such high-ranking Pentagon officials been suspected of graft on so large a scale. And while Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci maintained that the corruption concerned "individuals, not the institution," prosecutors disagreed. "It's going to show that the whole procurement process is a joke," contended a high-ranking investigator. While not claiming that all transactions are fraudulent, he insisted that "there hasn...
...Carlucci, who has been lobbying with a reluctant Congress to sustain the defense buildup, the scandal will make his task more difficult. Nor will it help Vice President George Bush, whose campaign for the Oval Office has already been saddled with the Iran-contra affair, implications of widespread impropriety among Reagan appointees and the investigation of Attorney General Edwin Meese. The Vice President could be further embarrassed by his close association with former Navy Secretary John Lehman. One of the principal targets of the investigation is former Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Engineering and Systems Melvyn Paisley...
After getting details of the budding Pentagon scandal from Carlucci last week, President Reagan summoned to the White House his top law-enforcement officials, including the Attorney General, the FBI director and U.S. Attorney Henry Hudson, who is coordinating the grand jury work in Alexandria, Va. Reagan asked for a "thorough investigation" of the allegations and said he was "very concerned" about them...