Lawrence E. Walsh, Prosecutor in Iran-Contra Scandal, Dies at 102
By NEIL A. LEWIS, NYT
MARCH 20, 2014
Lawrence E. Walsh, a former federal judge and a mainstay of the American legal establishment who as an independent counsel exposed the lawbreaking in the Reagan administration that gave rise to the Iran-contra scandal, died on Wednesday at his home in Oklahoma City. He was 102.
His family confirmed the death.
Few American lawyers have had as long and varied a career in both the public and private spheres as Mr. Walsh. Besides sitting on the federal bench, he was a prosecutor, corporate litigator, counsel to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, deputy attorney general under President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a negotiator at the Paris peace talks during the Vietnam War.
But it was the Iran-contra scandal that put him in the public eye as never before. Appointed by the judiciary as an independent counsel in 1986 at age 74, Mr. Walsh, a lifelong Republican and an early supporter of President Ronald Reagan, came out of retirement to unravel a complicated affair that reached from the White House to Tehran to counterrevolutionary strongholds in the mountains of Nicaragua.
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MARCH 20, 2014
Lawrence E. Walsh, a former federal judge and a mainstay of the American legal establishment who as an independent counsel exposed the lawbreaking in the Reagan administration that gave rise to the Iran-contra scandal, died on Wednesday at his home in Oklahoma City. He was 102.
His family confirmed the death.
Few American lawyers have had as long and varied a career in both the public and private spheres as Mr. Walsh. Besides sitting on the federal bench, he was a prosecutor, corporate litigator, counsel to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York, deputy attorney general under President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a negotiator at the Paris peace talks during the Vietnam War.
But it was the Iran-contra scandal that put him in the public eye as never before. Appointed by the judiciary as an independent counsel in 1986 at age 74, Mr. Walsh, a lifelong Republican and an early supporter of President Ronald Reagan, came out of retirement to unravel a complicated affair that reached from the White House to Tehran to counterrevolutionary strongholds in the mountains of Nicaragua.
(More here.)
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