Caspar Weinberger was convicted for lying to the independent counsel, but John Poindexter and his secretary Oliver North were not.
The document that led to the uncovering of this was contained in a manila folder marked WH, discovered by Brad Reynolds and John Richardson. Edwin Meese investigated it internally before it was examined by the independent counsel Lawrence Walsh and a committee that included Edmund Muskie, the Tower Commission. The plan, in violation of the Boland Amendment, was conceived by Robert McFarlane. Caspar Weinberger was convicted for lying to the independent counsel, but John Poindexter and his secretary Oliver North were not. For 10 points, money was provided to Nicaraguan rebels to fight the Sandinistas in what Reagan administration scandal?
The document that led to the uncovering of this was contained in a manila folder marked WH, discovered by Brad Reynolds and John Richardson.
{Iran}-{Contra} affair