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First, Meese was bluntly told by William Weld, chief of the Justice Department's criminal division, that he might be subject to indictment for his dealings with E. Robert Wallach, a central figure in both the Wedtech and Iraqi pipeline affairs. Weld and Deputy Attorney General Arnold Burns, the second in command, warned Meese that his behavior was "poisoning the department." Then the two officials, handpicked by Meese for their senior posts, publicly announced their resignations and those of four of their closest advisers...
...Whether he ever talked to James Jenkins, his chief deputy in the White House, about pressing the Army to give a $32 million contract to the Wedtech Corp. This was after Lyn Nofziger, a former Reagan adviser who has been convicted of illegally lobbying the White House for Wedtech, had asked Meese to intervene with the Army. Jenkins then held a White House meeting at which the award was arranged...
...onetime California newsman who served as Ronald Reagan's political director until January 1982. After a 16-day trial, a federal jury in Washington found Nofziger guilty of illegally contacting the White House for three clients of his "communications" firm. They were: New York City's scandal-plagued Wedtech Corp., which paid Nofziger's agency $1 million to help secure an Army small- engine contract; Fairchild Republic Co., which paid his firm $25,000 to promote continued federal funding of A-10 antitank aircraft; and the National Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, a maritime union that retained...
Nofziger's lawyers did not deny that on April 8, 1982, he wrote to Edwin Meese, then Counsellor to the President, urging that Wedtech get the $32 million Army contract. They conceded that Nofziger talked to National Security Council aides on Sept. 24, 1982, about the Fairchild planes and wrote to a Meese deputy on Aug. 20 of that year about the seaman jobs. But these overtures did not violate the Ethics Act, they argued, because the law prohibits lobbying only on matters of "direct and substantial interest" to the contacted agencies...
...What really made us decide were the letters" that Nofziger sent to Meese on about Wedtech and to Jenkins on Aug. 20, 1982, about civilian manning of Navy ships, Charles said...