Roanoke Times Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc. DATE: SATURDAY, September 11, 1993 TAG: 9309110176 SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-1 EDITION: METRO SOURCE: Associated Press DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: Short
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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