The Nation - News from Sept. 23, 1988

The prosecutor in Michael K. Deaver’s perjury case said that the former White House aide deserved imprisonment for lying about his “cynical exploitation” of contacts with top Reagan Administration officials. Independent counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. said in a court filing that a prison term “will make Washington influence peddlers more aware of the consequences of being called to explain their conduct in congressional and grand jury investigations--and the penalty if they do not tell the truth.” Deaver, who faces a possible five-year prison term and a $6,800 fine for each of three perjury convictions, is scheduled to be sentenced today.