Word: funneled
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...House on June 3, 1996. In their briefcases they carried classified information that even they didn't fully understand. A surveillance operation launched earlier that year by the satellite spymasters at the National Security Agency had alerted the FBI that the Chinese government might be planning an effort to funnel money into American politics...
Even so, there is now the suspicion that the government of China used Asian-American front groups to try to funnel influence money into U.S. politics. That possibility was strong enough that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright expressed her concern to China's leaders in Beijing. And it was the Asian connection that was at the heart of the D.N.C. announcement last week that it was returning 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...
...role of offshore money also might have played a part in an attempt last year by the D.N.C.'s Huang to funnel $250,000 to the Democratic Party through a Virginia-based business group. The Washington Post reported that Huang asked the Asian American Business Roundtable in Fairfax to act as a conduit for the money, whose source remains mysterious. For its services, the Roundtable was to receive an 18% slice, or $45,000. But Roundtable vice president Rawlein Soberano declined Huang's offer. Huang's attorney has denied that the meeting ever took place...
...appealing to the international community, including the U.S., to send humanitarian aid instead of the 12,000 troops originally committed to rescue the Hutu in Zaire. Several hundred thousand refugees may still be scattered in eastern Zaire; a scaled-down multinational force will probably be organized this week to funnel aid to them...
...that Huang went there most frequently in February 1996, shortly after joining the D.N.C. "It creates a very bad impression to have a fund raiser spending that much time in the White House," says C. Boyden Gray, who served as Bush's White House counsel. Gray set up a "funnel" in the Bush White House during the 1992 campaign, requiring campaign officials to clear any conversations with Bush appointees in the government. "It was time-consuming because you had to make two phone calls instead of one, and sometimes it was frustrating because they'd say no," he says...