A new Meese puzzle
Yet another cloud has appeared over the troubled nomination of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese as U.S. Attorney General: a tax-exempt Reagan Administration transition fund, headed by Meese in 1980-81, that refuses to reveal where its private donations came from and where much of its money went. The New York Times reported last week that the fund has even refused to open its books to a federal audit. The disclosure led Senate Judiciary Committee Member Ted Kennedy to ask Jacob Stein, the special prosecutor looking into allegations raised against Meese,...
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