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Corruption ran rampant in many government agencies.
In the Department of Commerce, James Watt
was a fiercely anti-environmentalist who protested
federal control over the rich mineral and
timber resources in the western states. Additionally, Watt set out
to cripple the EPA and to permit oil drilling
in scenic areas. After telling an off-color ethnic joke in 1983,
Watt was forced to resign. He described
members of a federal advisory panel as
"a black ... a woman, two Jews, and a cripple."
While in the Reagan administration, Secretary
of Interior Watt was indicted on 41 felony charges for
using his HUD connections to help his clients
seek federal funds for housing projects in Maryland, New Jersey,
Massachusetts, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin
Islands. Watt conceded that he had received $500,000 from clients
who were granted very favorable housing
contracts after he intervened. He also was given $100,000 for a
project in Puerto Rico.
Testifying before a House committee Watt
said, "That's what they
offered, and it sounded like a lot of money
to me, and we settled on it."
After over ten years of investigation, Watt
was sentenced to five years of probation and 500 hours of
community service for withholding documents
from a grand jury which investigated HUD in March 1996.
Corruption spread to the EPA. Anne Burford,
who headed the superfund of the EPA, resigned after she
bent environmental regulations for dozens
of industrial polluters.
One of Burford's subordinates, Rita Lavelle,
headed the EPA's toxic waste clean-up program.
She was indicted and served three months
in a federal penitentiary for lying to Congress.
She was able to clean up only a small handful
of the nation's thousands of toxic waste sites.
In addition, EPA administrator, John W.
Hernandez, resigned after his staff disclosed that he
illegally allowed Dow Chemicals to review
a report which named it a dioxin polluter.
Assistant EPA administrator John Horton
was dismissed for using government employees for private business.
Matthew Novick, EPA Inspector General,
was fired after he used government officials to work on private business.
Theodore
Olson, Assistant Attorney
General of the United States, was under investigation for obstructing
justice in the investigation of
the EPA.
EPA General Counsel Robert Perry resigned after improper participation in a settlement which involved a former employer.
John Tudhunter, assistant EPA administrator,
resigned after being accused of meeting privately with chemical
company lobbyists. Additionally, the Reagan
administration sold and leased billions of dollars worth of coal and
oil reserves, timber lands, and mineral
reserves. In addition, Reagan tampered with environmental laws in his crusade
to bolster corporate profits. These
included the effect which factory pollutants, originating in upper state
New York,
had on destroying Canadian forests, rivers,
and streams.
White House chief of staff Michael Deaver
always denied Canada's allegations that sulfides from New York factories
caused any harm to the environment. However,
when Deaver left the White House, he immediately lobbied on behalf of
foreign countries, in violation of
The Ethics in Government Act which prohibits anyone for lobbying for one
year after
leaving a White House post. Deaver immediately
he went to work for the Canadian government, being paid $105,000
to lobby for compensation from the United
States for damage inflicted on Canadian territory from acid rain.
Deaver also received $250,000 from Daewoo, a South Korean steel corporation, to market its product in the United States.
Other foreign lobbyists included Ed Rollins,
a member of Dole's campaign committee in 1995, and former RNC Chairman
Frank Fahrenkopf, were on the payroll as
lobbyists for Taiwan. By the time Reagan left the White House and
the smoke
had cleared, a laundry list of government
upper management officials had surfaced. Some of them included:
* Anne Burford, Rita Lavelle, James Watt, and Michael Deaver.
* Richard Allen, National Security adviser,
who resigned amid controversy over
a $1,000 honorarium after
arranging an interview with Nancy Reagan.
* James Beggs, chief administrator at NASA,
who was indicted for
defrauding the government
while an executive at General Dynamics.
* Guy Flake, Deputy Secretary of Commerce,
who resigned after
allegations of a conflict
of interest in contract negotiations.
* Louis Glutfrida, director of Federal Emergency
Management Agency,
who resigned amid allegations
of misuse of government property.
* Edwin Gray, chairman of Federal Home Loan
Bank, who was charged with
illegally repaying himself
and his wife $26,000 in travel costs.
* Max Hugel, CIA chief of covert operations,
who resigned after
allegations of fraudulent
financial dealings.
* Carlos Campbell, Assistant Secretary of
Commerce, who resigned after
charges of awarding grants
to his friends' firms.
* Raymond Donovan, Secretary of Labor, who
was indicted for defrauding
the New York City Transit
Authority of $7.4 million.
* John Fedders, chief of enforcement for
the Securities and Exchange
Commission, who resigned after
charges of wife-beating.
* Arthur Hayes, commissioner of the Food
and Drug Administration, who
resigned after being under
investigation for illegal travel reimbursements.
* J. Lynn Helms, chief of the Federal Aviation
Administration, who
resigned after a grand jury
investigated illegal business activities.
* Marjory Mecklenburg, Deputy Assistant
Secretary of the Department of
Health and Human Resources,
resigned after allegations of irregularities on her travel vouchers.
* Edwin Meese, Attorney General, was under
investigation by a special prosecutor for his role
in helping Wedtech Corporation.
* Robert Nimmo, head of Veterans Administration,
who resigned when a report criticized him
for improper use of government
funds.
* Lyn Nofziger, White House aide, who was under investigation for his role in helping Wedtech Corporation.
* J. William Petro, a United States attorney,
who was fired and fined
for tipping off an acquaintance
about a forthcoming grand jury indictment.
* Thomas C. Reed, White House counselor
and National Security Council
adviser, who resigned and
paid a $427,000 fine for stock market insider trade information.
* Emanuel Savas, Assistant Secretary of
HUD, who resigned after he had
assigned staff members to
work on a book he was writing.
* Peter Voss, Postal Service governor, who
pleaded guilty to charges
of expense account fraud and
to accepting kickbacks.
* Charles Wick, director of the United States
Information Agency (USIA), who was accused of taping
conversations with public
officials without their approval. In addition, charges
were brought against
several high level officials
in regard to Iran-contra. Those included:
* National Security Council advisers Robert McFarlane and John Poindexter
* Secretary of Defense Casper Weinberger
* Deputy Secretary of State Elliot Abrams
* Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council
* Major Richard Secord of the National Security Council
* Deputy Assistant to the President Jonathan Miller
* CIA officials:
* Albert Fiers
* Thomas Clines
* CIA chief William Casey died before he
was indicted.
* Clair George
* Richard Miller
* Albert Hakim
* Carl Channell
...remember, this is a partial list.
So, when they tell you Clinton had the most unethical administration
ever,
tell them Bartcop says "blome," because they either are
ignorant of the facts or lying.