The Nation - News from Nov. 6, 1988

Former Assistant Atty. Gen. William F. Weld has been cleared by the Justice Department on allegations that he smoked marijuana and then lied about it, the Washington Post reported. Sources familiar with the investigation said the Justice Department--as required by the independent counsel law--filed with the special three-judge court in charge of appointing independent counsels a sealed report concluding that no independent counsel is warranted in the allegations against Weld while he was U.S. attorney in Boston. The investigation was launched after a Washington Times article alleged that Frank McNamara, Weld’s successor in Boston, had told “at least one senior Justice Department official that he witnessed Mr. Weld smoking marijuana” at a wedding.