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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...
...strict legal sense, Stein's 200-page report will clear Meese: the grand jury involved returned no indictments. But Stein will also report that Meese had received personal loans from friends and, despite his denials, had later helped some of them land federal jobs. The report will portray him as being insensitive to the ethics expected of the nation's highest law-enforcement officer...
...fined the Ferraro campaign $750 for the violation, after accepting the sworn statements of Zaccaro, who served as campaign manager, and the committee treasurer that they had been assured that the loans were proper by David Stein, a former FEC attorney. Last week Stein issued a statement claiming that he informally advised the Ferraro campaign that "I did not believe that it would be permissible" to accept large family loans. Zaccaro and the campaign treasurer continued to stick to their original account...
...Among those on the advisory board for the study: Peter Peterson, former chairman of Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb; Herbert Stein, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon; Economist Robert Solow of M.I.T.; Eleanor Holmes Norton, former chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the Carter Administration...
...transition from the Carter to the Reagan Administration. But the General Accounting Office, an arm of Congress, was refused access to the books. Leaks about who got how much from the funds appeared; White House aides reportedly quarreled among themselves about how much to disclose and when Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor who is looking into the financial affairs of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, asked for a copy of an audit by the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co., and the funds' lawyers finally released it last week. It pointed to no apparent illegalities. The audit, however, did present...