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Last week Johnny Chung, a prominent business leader from Los Angeles, confessed to raising $300,000 illegally for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the 1996 elections. Chung, one of the Democratic Party's biggest fundraisers, confessed to taking money from China and funneling it to President Clinton's campaign. And there may be more. According to the New York Times, millions of dollars were channeled from the Chinese government to the Los Angeles bank used by Chung...
When the story originally broke in 1996, rumors had already been swirling about the White House's shady fund-raising ties. At first the administration vehemently denied any ties to Chung; then, once pictures of Chung with several Chinese nationals at the White House with Bill and Hillary Clinton surfaced, the administration denied the ties to China. These excuses made it apparent that fund-raising rules had been disregarded, and the Justice Department began an investigation...
...hypocrisy of the administration is the least of our fears, however. More importantly is the fact, amid massive allegations of Chinese tampering--stealing nuclear technology and spying in several of our most top-secret labs--that they also tried to influence our Presidential elections. Testifying before a Senate committee, Chung revealed that $200,000 of the money had come from Lieut. Col. Liu Chaoying, a Chinese military officer and aerospace executive who reportedly said to Chung when he give him the money, "We like your President. We want...
...conjunction with the White House, purported to not know of Chung's dangerous ties. However, as Judge Manuel Real, who sentenced Chung to jail, said, "If they didn't know what was going on, I think they are the dumbest politicians I've ever seen...
...Democratic ghosts from the past came back to Washington on Tuesday to raise once again the twin policy spectres that have bedeviled the Clinton administration?s second term: China and campaign finances. Johnny Chung, the controversial Democratic fund-raiser who pleaded guilty last year to making illegal campaign contributions, was called in by Republicans to testify before the House Government Reform Committee about his contacts with various Chinese officials and executives, including the head of Chinese military intelligence. While his testimony revealed few new details, his appearance on the Hill gave the Clinton administration another bad China day. "Coming...