
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, September 11, 1993                   TAG: 9309110176
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

INVESTIGATOR: QUAYLE ACCUSER TREATED UNFAIRLY IN PRISON

The Justice Department's inspector general concluded that federal prison officials unfairly disciplined an inmate during the 1988 presidential campaign for spreading allegations that he once sold marijuana to Dan Quayle.

But Richard J. Hankinson, the department's inspector general, said there was no "conspiracy to silence" inmate Brett Kimberlin. He concluded that officials at the Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., who put Kimberlin in a special lock-down cell just before the 1988 election, were reacting to the extraordinary intervention of then-Bureau of Prisons' director J. Michael Quinlan.

Quinlan had canceled a Nov. 4, 1988, prison news conference at which Kimberlin planned to make public his allegation about Quayle. Quinlan also ordered Kimberlin placed in a special detention cell that night.

Kimberlin claimed he sold marijuana to Quayle years ago when the former vice president was a law school student. Quayle has denied the allegation. And the Drug Enforcement Administration investigated Kimberlin's claim and concluded it was false.

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