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JAMES G. WATT
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From wikipedia:
James Gaius Watt (born January 31, 1938 in Lusk, Wyoming) served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1983.
Watt attended the University of Wyoming, earning a bachelor's degree in 1960 and a law degree in 1962. Watt's first political job was as an aide to Senator Milward Simpson, whom he met through Simpson's son, Alan Simpson.
In 1966, Watt became the secretary to the natural resources committee and environmental pollution advisory panel of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
In 1969, Watt was appointed the deputy assistant secretary of water and power development in the Department of the Interior.
In 1975, Watt was appointed the vice-chairman of the Federal Power Commission.
In 1976, Watt founded the Mountain States Legal Foundation. Also a number of attorneys who worked for Watt at the foundation later assumed positions of responsibility in the federal government, including Ann Veneman and Gale Norton.
Watt's tenure as Secretary of the Interior was marked by controversy, stemming primarily from his alleged hostility to environmentalism and his support of the development and use of federal lands by foresting, ranching, and other commercial interests. A public controversy erupted after a speech by Watt on Sept. 21, 1983, when he said about his staff: "I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple. And we have talent."
Within weeks of making this statement, Watt resigned....
In 1995, Watt was indicted on 18 counts of felony perjury and obstruction of justice by a federal grand jury. The indictments were due to false statements made to a grand jury investigating influence peddling at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which he had lobbied in the mid to late 1980s.
On January 2, 1996, as part of a plea bargain, Watt pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of withholding documents from a federal grand jury. On March 12, 1996 he was sentenced to 5 years probation and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine (Catbird note: Compare this to the guy in Confessions of a Whistleblower), and perform 500 hours of community service, a sentence which allowed him to avoid incarceration....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Watt
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