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B-212647 1 (1983-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkky0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-212647 September 14, 1983 The Honorable William D. Ford IIIIII //IIi Chairman, Committee on Post Office 122422 and Civil Service House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This responds to your letter of July 27, 1983, jointly signed/by Subcommittee Chairmen Robert Garcia and Mickey Leland concerning certain financial transactions involving United States Postal Service Governor, John McKean, and two members of the White House Staff, Mr. Edwin Meese III, and Mr. Michael Deaver. The transactions occurred in 1981, the year in which Mr. McKean's name was submitted to the President to fill a vacancy on the Postal Service Board of Governors. You requested that the General Accounting Office review the nature of these transactions, their timing in relation to Mr. McKean's nomination and the comprehensiveness and timeliness of their reporting. In reviewing this matter, we interviewed Mr. Meese, Mr. Deaver, and Mr. McKean, as well as the President's counsel, Mr. Fielding, and Mr. Pendleton James, former Director of Presidential Personnel. We examined the Finan- cial Disclosure Statements of the three principal parties in light of the pertinent provisions of the Ethics in Govern- ment Act, Pub. L. 95-521, as amended. The information we obtained is set forth below and is supplemented by a chron- ology in Attachment I and a list of documents reviewed in Attachment 2. Together with this information we are provid- ing our analysis of the principal parties' compliance with the financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics in Government Act. PART I - DEAVER-MCKEAN RELATIONSHIP Mr. Deaver became acquainted with Mr. McKean in 197 upon the recommendation of a friend. Mr. McKean immediately

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