He spent the summer working as a student intern for the Republican Senate Policy Committee on Capitol Hill. In 1982, Meese’s son Scott was a sophomore at Princeton. AFP PHOTO/Karen BLEIER (Photo credit should read KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images) Meese, along with former Secretaries of State James Baker III and Warren Christopher and other members of the commission released their findings and recommendations on the war powers of the president and Congress. Meese’s Son Died in a Car Crash When He Was 19 Years Oldįormer US Attorney General Edwin Meese III, member of the National War Powers Commission listens during a phone call prior to a press conference on Jon Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. He said that Meese was “at best incompetent and at worst corrupt.”Ĥ. Prosecutors believed that Meese was the middleman between Wallach and the Reagan administration, who helped make sure that Wedtech got the contracts.īut the prosecution could never prove that there was a link, and so Meese was never formally charged.Īt the end of the trial, the prosecution said it was ridiculous to say that Meese and Wallach’s friendship hadn’t helped Wedtech get the contracts. Wallach was charged with taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from Wedtech Corporation, a Bronx military contractor, in return for helping them get military contracts from the Reagan administration. Robert Wallach was sentenced to six years in prison and fined $250,000 for allegedly selling influence with the government.
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Meese was allegedly implicated - although never charged - in a high profile corruption and racketeering trial that centered around a Bronx military contractor. Meese and others from the Reagan administration
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