Word: wedtech
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...Weld may also suffer rightwing backlashfrom his resignation from his federal post toprotest Attorney General Edwin Meese's involvementin the Wedtech scandal. Many conservatives chargeWeld with embarrassing the Reagan administrationand attack him for showing a lack of partyloyalty...
...wait, there's still Secretary Samuel Pierce and the HUD scandal. Savings and loans continue to hemorrhage red ink. And after 10 years of investigation, the Wedtech scandal has finally put Edwin Meese-chum Robert Wallach behind bars...
...traders at the Chicago Board of Trade and the Mercantile Exchange, 18 of them on RICO charges. And just last week the law was used to convict E. Robert Wallach, a longtime friend of former Attorney General Edwin Meese, of accepting illegal payoffs to influence Government officials in the Wedtech Corp. corruption case...
...Texas system has in the 1980s become the American system. From former Attorney General Edwin Meese (not indicted) to imagemaker Michael Deaver (convicted), Ronald Reagan's closest advisers ran aground in part because they envied the easy California wealth of the President's kitchen Cabinet. From Abscam to Wedtech, East Coast Congressmen have found it hard to resist fast-money blandishments and outright bribery. Texas politicians like Jim Wright are far from unique in confusing doing well with doing good...
...office, "disciplinary action" should be taken against him for "conduct which should not be tolerated of any government employee, especially not the Attorney General." Among Meese's misdeeds cited in the report: doing favors for chum E. Robert Wallach, who is awaiting trial for his part in the Wedtech scandal, and participating in decisions on companies in which he owned stock. To no one's surprise, Meese's lawyer called the report a "travesty of justice," and former boss Ronald Reagan deemed it "unwarranted...