DEAVER LOBBIED FOR THE KOREANS 5 MONTHS AFTER LEAVING U.S. POST

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• Document Release Date: September 1, 2010
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• Publication Date: April 26, 1986
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ON PAGE NEW YORK TIMES
26 April 1986
Deaver Lobbied for the Koreans
5 Months fter Leaving U.S. Post
By MARTIN TOLCHIN
Spedalto The New York Tims
WASHINGTON, April 25 - Michael
K. Deaver represented a foreign client
at a meeting with an official of the Na-
tional Security Council five months
after he left his job as deputy White
House chief of staff, according to a re-
port he filed with the Justice Depart-
ment.
A Government ethics official said the
meeting was within the law, but Con-
gressional critics of Mr. Deaver
strongly disagreed.
David Martin, director of the Office
of Government Ethics, sent a letter to
the Justice Department today asking it
to investigate whether Mr. Deaver had
violated conflict-of-interest laws. Mr.
Martin declined to produce the letter or
explain what had prompted it. On
Thursday five Democratic Senators
sent a letter similar to Mr. Martin's to
Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, set-
ting in motion a procedure that can
lead to the appointment of an independ-
ent counsel to Investigate Mr. Deaver's
activities.
Under the law, the Attorney General
must respond within 30 days and tell
the senators whether he has asked a
three-judge Federal court to appoint an
independent counsel, or, if not, why
not.
The Ethics in Government Act bars
high-ranking Federal employees with
significant decision-making or supervi-
sory authority from representing any-
one, formally or informally, on any
matter pending before their former
agencies for one year after leaving the
Government.
In his report, dated April 18, Mr.
Deaver said he had represented the Ko-
rean Broadcasting Advertising Corpo-
ration at a meeting with William F.
Martin, a special assistant to the Presi-
dent for national security affairs. Mr.
Martin was not available for comment,
according to his secretary.
Lobbyist Declines to Comment
The report said that the Oct. 1 meet-
ing was "on issues relating to general
trade relations and communications
between the United States and South
Korea."
An aide to Mr. Deaver said that the
lobbyist would not comment on any al-
legati" of conflicts of interest or any
other possible violations of law. In
addition, Richard J. Wertheimer, an
attorney for Mr. Deaver, when asked if
his client had violated the law, replied,
"I'm not prepared to comment."
An aide to the director of the Office of
Government Ethics said that the law
barred all but social contacts between
an official and his former agency. The
aide, who asked not to be identified,
added, that the National Security Coun-
cil, while part of the Executive Office
of the President, was considered a
separate agency for the purposes of the
ethics law.
Cono-essional critics dispute this
in-
terpretation. Senator Patrick J.
the Vermont Democrat who vice
chairman of the Inte ence Commit-
tee as the National
Council isn't part of the White House,
w at it part
"It's certainly not part of the Na-
tional Park Service," the Senator
added.
"I am concerned when anybody
who's been in government seems to be
more concerned with the contribution
they make to themselves than to the
government," Mr. Leahy said. "One
way to do service to your country is to
put this one-year hiatus between your
government service and your private
life."
Mr. Leahy was one of the five Demo-
crats on the Senate Judiciary Commit-
tee who petitioned the Justice Depart-
ment Thursday to appointment an in-
dependent counsel, with the powers of a
special prosecutor, to investigate al-
leged conflicts of interest involving Mr.
Deaver, an intimate of President Rea-
gan and his wife, Nancy.,
In Los Angeles the President was
asked today about the senators' re-
quest after leaving the capital on the
first leg of his trip to a Tokyo economist
summit meeting. "I think the whole
thing is ridiculous," Mr. Reagan said.
At his last news conference last month,
the president said that Mr. Deaver
"has never put the arm on me."
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