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...Iraqi pipeline. At the instigation of his friend and attorney E. Robert Wallach, Meese helped promote U.S. and Israeli guarantees for a proposed pipeline that would allow Iraqi oil to bypass the Persian Gulf. Wallach told Meese the plan included a proposal to pay off Israel's Labor Party so that Israel would not sabotage the project. "If an illegal bribery scheme actually was afoot, Mr. Meese's actions would have furthered the scheme," said McKay. But some participants refused to be questioned, and there was insufficient evidence that a bribe plot existed. Thus McKay did not charge Meese with...
Wedtech. Again at Wallach's urging, Meese in 1982 provided what McKay called "instrumental" help to Wedtech, a New York City firm, so that it could land a $32 million Government contract. He intervened despite warnings by Fred Fielding, counsel to the President, and Craig Fuller, assistant to the President, that the White House should not get involved in contract awards. McKay, however, found no evidence that Meese got anything of value for his assistance or violated...
McKay also disclosed that Wallach, who is under indictment for alleged racketeering in the Wedtech scandal, facilitated two loans to Meese totalling...
...independent counsel examined the transactions in trying to determine whether Meese had accepted a bribe or a gratuity. But he concluded, "There is no direct evidence that Mr. Meese accepted anything of value from Mr. Wallach with the requisite state of mind for a gratuities violation...
...Wallach's behest, Meese intervened on behalf of the Wedtech Corp. in 1981, resulting ultimately in the defense contractor being awarded a $32 million contract. Meese also assisted Wallach in connection with a $1 billion Iraqi oil pipeline project, setting up a meeting between the San Francisco lawyer and then-National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane...