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...spotlight in the campaign-finance inquiry shifts this week to a $1 million payment that lobbyist and close Al Gore ally PETER KNIGHT received just weeks before he left his firm to manage the Clinton-Gore campaign last year. The source of the payment was Franklin Haney, a Chattanooga developer and longtime Gore supporter, who last year became involved in a controversial Washington building project called the Portals...
...there. Well-publicized plant visits by Gore and the department's environmental cleanup czar, Thomas Grumbly, sent its stock sharply higher. Knight helped land a $460,000 contract for the company to demonstrate its toxic waste neutralizing technology at a government laboratory, congressional investigators say. And Haney was a frequent guest at the White House and the Vice President's mansion. He, his firm and its officers raised or contributed $130,000 towards the Democratic Party and the Clinton-Gore re-election campaign managed by Knight...
...Energy department, Knight appears to have had an open door to Grumbly, who had worked for Gore in his congressional days. Records show extensive contacts between Knight, Haney and Grumbly...
...Haney and Lockheed gifts were among the largest of the $1 million raised by Gore and the university for the chair established 10 years after Nancy Gore Hunger died of lung cancer...
...Vice President formally set up the endowment May 2, 1994 in a ceremony at the Knoxville campus. He wrote Haney inviting him to the event and thanking him "from the bottom of my heart" for the contribution. In the margin was a handwritten note: "Thanks Bill! You will never know how much this means to me. You are a great friend...