major issue: placing limits on honoraria and outside income for members of Congress. The thinking that emerged from the White House was that since the President was also going to be asking Congress to significantly increase executive and judicial salaries, it was "prudent" to leave Congress' outside income problem for another day.
As it turned out, uniformity of treatment did carry the day--although not exactly in the manner anticipated by the public. All three branches got a substantial pay boost. While some of Bush's ethics reforms have been enacted into law, 53 it remains to be seen whether such reform results in more than the entrapment of the uninitiated and a mild challenge to the ingenuity of influence peddlers.
Mr. Wallach was tried and convicted of various federal crimes flowing out of his relationship with Wedtech; however, these convictions were reversed and a new trial ordered because of the perjury of a principal government witness. The perjury was substantively unrelated to the facts as they pertain to Wallach but did go to the veracity of the witness. See U.S. v. Wallach, 935 F. 2d 445 (2d Cir. 1991).