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...foreign cash in U.S. politics surfaced in the last days of the 1996 campaign, Americans know that both Democrats and Republicans were so desperate for the unrestricted dole of "soft money" that they went overseas to find more. Either directly or through middlemen, both parties turned to Overseas Chinese businessmen with large commercial interests in the People's Republic of China for multimillion-dollar cash infusions. Both parties gave their benefactors a fair hearing on party trade policy toward China, and both maintained elaborate ruses to hide their new sources of cash. Yet the Democrats, it turned out, were...
...were a dog, you would be two?" The woman let out a nervous peal of laughter, uncertain whether the conversion from human to dog years was a blatant attempt to impress her or the tangential musings of a madman. At the sound of her voice, three well-groomed businessmen lifted their heads quizzically and ever so slightly from their periodicals, as if to offer assistance...
...brokers are waiting on the Web to supply you with just about anyone's Social Security number, listed (and unlisted) phone numbers, voter registrations, driving records, court records, real estate holdings, liens and, well, you name it. Even such esoterica as companies registered in Switzerland, corporate profiles of Japanese businessmen and Nevada divorce petitions are all stored neatly online and available for a price...
...eating $500,000 in bad debts, rescuing Republicans in the last weeks of the 1996 contest. The conduit for the money was a U.S. firm with little income and few assets, but quietly backed by an aviation-services and real estate-investment company controlled by Hong Kong and Taiwanese businessmen. The money passed through a Republican think tank that granted big donors more influence over party policy in return for more money. For Young, the arrangement also opened diplomatic doors. In Washington, Young met face to face with the lions of the G.O.P. just as they were taking over Congress...
...Hubbell's being retained by the Lippo Group, an Indonesian conglomerate whose owners were long friendly with the President, until he read it in the newspaper late last year. Two months later Clinton conceded he had been aware as early as 1994 that such key political supporters as Texas businessmen Truman Arnold and Bernard Rapoport had given work to Hubbell, though he couldn't quite recall who told him. Now Clinton says Bowles and McLarty "were trying to help him for no other reason than just out of human compassion...