Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Right away," Trie says. He goes to his office and picks up a shopping bag full of checks that are all made out to BILL CLINTON FOR GOVERNOR OR ARKANSAS DEMOCRATIC PARTY. They are signed with what appear to be Asian names--Sun Yatsen, for instance, and Charlie Chan. Returning to the dining room, he shoots an ingratiating smile in the Governor's direction and pours the checks out on to the table...
...William Powell, is a still-funny Washington lampoon from 1947, before we knew there was so much to satirize. Throw in star-studded Senate classic Advise and Consent for a briefer on the Weld mess. But if you're a campaign finance junkie, and you need a good Asian infiltration plot to get through the weekend, just go get The Manchurian Candidate. As a watchdog, committee chairman Fred Thompson has absolutely nothing on Chairman of the Board Frank Sinatra...
...tried to "subvert" U.S. elections in 1996 with illegal campaign money, although Democrats confirmed that a classified briefing provided evidence to suggest China had at least tried to influence the congressional elections last year. But in its helter-skelter way, the committee began to construct a coherent tale. Asian money--specifically from Indonesia's Lippo Group and its onetime executive Huang--had infiltrated Democratic coffers longer, deeper and with more political strings attached than had previously been known...
...chief of staff Jack Quinn thanked him for receiving Huang and Chinese official Shen Jueren at the White House, and for delivering the Vice President three days later to a Los Angeles event. Democratic sources tell TIME that on Sept. 27, 1993, Gore dropped by an intimate gathering of Asian Americans organized by Huang. His guest of honor: Shen Jueren, the head of China Resources, a huge trading company wholly owned by the Chinese government, with intelligence-gathering functions and strong financial ties to Lippo...
...consultant, wrote a letter pressing Administration officials to hire Huang, identifying him as the "top priority" of the Riadys and the "political power" who advises them on "where to make contributions." But the personnel official who made the hire claims to have done so only because of Huang's Asian background; call it ethnic patronage. Even so, Huang already had remarkable access to Clinton. At MTV's Inaugural Ball, Clinton met privately with Huang and Lippo's deputy chairman James Riady. The three met again in fall 1995 to finalize Huang's move to the D.N.C...