在里根政府时期,梅尔文·佩斯利曾出任海军部副部长,深得当时的海军部长约翰·莱曼的信任。在佩斯利于1987年辞去五角大楼的职务时,莱曼宣称,佩斯利是他选任该职的第一人选。事实证明,他确是“海军部主管研究与发展的最好的副部长”。然而,最近公布的一项调查结果表明,佩斯利在职期间曾肄无忌惮地滥用职权谋取私利,是美国政府迄今为止所发现的职位最高、获利最多、被判刑最重的政府官员。 During the Reagan administration, Melvin Paisley served as Deputy Admiral of the Navy and won the trust of the then-Navy Secretary John Lyman. When Paisley resigned as the Pentagon in 1987, Lehman claimed that Paisley was his first choice for the job. Facts have proved that he is indeed “the Navy’s leading research and development of the best deputy minister.” However, a recently released survey shows that during his time in office Paisley abusively abused his power for personal gain and was the highest-ranking, most profitable and most sentenced government official ever discovered by the U.S. government.