Word: wallach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer of 1981, California State Judge Eugene Lynch asked San Francisco Attorney E. Robert Wallach to talk to his good friend Edwin Meese, then White House Counsellor, about helping the judge get an appointment to the federal bench. Wallach says it was "likely" that he did so. At a hearing on Sept. 17 of that year, Lynch orally approved a payment of $1 million to Wallach's law firm as its part of a $1.74 million out-of-court settlement won by the firm for two girls who had been badly burned in a tent fire. The following January Lynch...
...source of the "cascade of misinformation, false headlines, half-truths, innuendo and misunderstanding" about whether he ignored an associate's proposal to bribe Israeli officials. The words, he said, are part of a long document sent to him in 1985 by his former California attorney, E. Robert Wallach, concerning a proposed Iraqi oil pipeline. In a statement to the press, Meese declared that he cannot recall having read the words at the time. But they do not, he said, mention any "bribes or payoffs" to guarantee that Israel would not attack the pipeline...
What are the ten suspicious words? Meese could not say because the Wallach memo has been classified by Independent Counsel James McKay at the request of the State Department. While an interagency committee considers whether to make the memo public, the Los Angeles Times reported that the words convey a suggestion that campaign contributions might be presented to Israel's Labor Party. But the party's leaders have denied ever getting a contribution aimed at buying a promise that Israel would not sabotage the proposed pipeline...
...California-based Bechtel Group has confirmed that it actively sought the billion-dollar construction job, which was to have been privately financed. Bechtel sources say Wallach was involved in the deal as legal counsel for Bruce Rappaport, a Geneva-based international oilman, who was to handle the pipeline oil sales. Citing his closeness to Meese, Wallach contacted several Administration officials to see if money earmarked for Israel by Congress could be used to insure the pipeline against an Israeli attack. The project was abandoned when proposed lenders asked for guarantees of repayment even if the line was damaged...
...Wallach, a former president of the Bar Association of San Francisco, had often boasted of his influence in Washington, claiming that "I'm Meese's boy." He was indicted on various charges, including fraud, in December by a federal grand jury in Manhattan. One accusation: he took illegal payments for trying to influence Meese in winning military contracts for Wedtech, the bankrupt New York manufacturing firm. That was trouble enough for the beleaguered Attorney General, who has appeared five times before McKay's grand jury. On Friday McKay visited the White House to tell senior officials that his investigation...