<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair" id="mwAQY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Iran–Contra affair">Iran–Contra affair</a>: Lieutenant Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_North" id="mwAQc" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oliver North">Oliver North</a> and Vice Admiral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poindexter" id="mwAQg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="John Poindexter">John Poindexter</a> are indicted on charges of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)" id="mwAQk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Conspiracy (criminal)">conspiracy</a> to defraud the United States.<sup about="#mwt129" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"}}' id="cite_ref-24" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_16#cite_note-24" id="mwAQo" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 24;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAQs">[24]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-24"><cite about="#mwt126" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFShenon1988">Shenon, Philip (17 March 1988). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/17/world/north-poindexter-and-2-others-indicted-on-iran-contra-fraud-and-theft-charges.html" id="mwCsk" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"North, Poindexter and 2 others indicted on Iran-contra fraud and theft charges"</a>. <i id="mwCso"><a href="./The_New_York_Times" id="mwCss" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. No.<span id="mwCsw" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>47447. p.<span id="mwCs0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>1<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCs4">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCs8">3 October</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt126" class="Z3988" id="mwCtA" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=North%2C+Poindexter+and+2+others+indicted+on+Iran-contra+fraud+and+theft+charges&amp;rft.issue=47447&amp;rft.pages=1&amp;rft.date=1988-03-17&amp;rft.aulast=Shenon&amp;rft.aufirst=Philip&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1988%2F03%2F17%2Fworld%2Fnorth-poindexter-and-2-others-indicted-on-iran-contra-fraud-and-theft-charges.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+16"></span></span>