Byline: Ronald J. Ostrow Los Angeles Times
The independent counsel investigating Attorney General Edwin Meese III is focusing on a memo from attorney E. Robert Wallach to Meese that allegedly cited a plan to pay off a high-ranking official in Jerusalem to help head off Israeli interference in a $1 billion Iraqi pipeline project, government sources familiar with the inquiry said Thursday.
Meese reportedly did nothing about his knowledge of the alleged 1985 proposal, the sources said. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act prohibits U.S. citizens from bribing foreign officials.
It was not clear whether Meese or his longtime friend Wallach, a San Francisco lawyer who is under …
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