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...another $1.5 million in campaign contributions from 77 donors, bringing to almost $3 million the amount it has given back. Three-fourths of the suspect money was brought in by three Chinese-American moneymen: D.N.C. fund raiser John Huang, former Arkansas restaurant owner Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Johnny Chung, who brought six mainland Chinese businessmen to one of Clinton's radio addresses...
There is plenty of reason to hope that Harvard will improve on last year's final 19th-ranking. Despite the loss of seniors Todd Meringoff and Dan Chung, the nucleus of the 1995-96 team remains...
...thing to pay to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom or ride on Air Force One. It's quite another to pay $7,000 a head to watch Bill Clinton deliver an eight-minute talk on radio. But that's what Johnny Chung, no stranger to the White House, apparently did. Democratic officials and lawyers for the California entrepreneur tell TIME that he gave $50,000 to the Democratic National Committee in exchange for the invitation for him and six business friends from China to watch Clinton sound off on everything from welfare reform to college loans. Exactly how the deal...
Fowler strongly denies that he personally intervened for Chung or discussed a donation in return for the invitation. Even so, Chung's Oval Office visit for the radio chat stands out even by the standards of Washington's cash-hungry politics. One of the city's enduring myths is that political contributions given on Monday have little to do with results on Wednesday. What happens between donor and recipient is often characterized as coincidental and tends to be handled with some finesse. It may defy all logic, but the myth is kept alive by the appearance of a carefully maintained...
...what is also clear--and disturbing--about this White House moment is that Chung was leading a delegation of foreigners, who by law are strictly forbidden to give money to the President's party. Did they help pony up the $50,000, and if they didn't, did Chung get help from anyone else? White House officials deny any connection between Chung's frequent access and his contributions to the party, which total $366,000 since 1994. They add that Clinton was puzzled by the presence of the Chinese businessmen and was uncomfortable posing with them for pictures...