Attorney General Edwin Meese admitted on Nov-ember 25 that profits from the weapons sales were aiding the Contras. On the same day, National Security Advisor John Poindexter resigned, and Oliver North was fired by President Reagan. 

Congressional investigations were initiated and widespread criticism and outrage over the scheme forced Reagan to apologize on a nationally televised address on March 4, 1987.

Several high-ranking Administration officials were indicted on various charges related to Iran-Contra including Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger on two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice on June 16, 1992. Weinberger received a pardon from President George H.W. Bush in December 1992, before he was tried. William Casey, who was the ma...

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