Word: huang
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Even before he joined Commerce, Huang enjoyed special treatment from his friends in the West Wing. One favor came in the form of a top-secret security clearance that Huang was awarded while still a private citizen. TIME has obtained an official memo waiving the need for Huang to undergo a full background check before receiving the clearance. "Huang is granted this waiver," says the one-page document signed by the personnel-security chief of the Commerce Department, "due to the critical need for his expertise in the new Administration [by] Secretary Brown...
There was little doubt last week that in his own way, Huang had played a "critical" role in the Clinton Administration. Secret Service logs leaked last week showed that besides raising more than $4 million for the Democratic Party from Asian Americans this year, he was a frequent visitor to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. What the records didn't explain is just what Huang was doing during all those visits. Could he have been seeking political favors for big contributors, particularly those with ties to Indonesia, the home of the multibillion-dollar Lippo Group financial conglomerate that was once Huang...
...Huang is only part of a suddenly visible network of agents who have acted as conduits between a cash-obsessed campaign on one side and deep-pocketed business and foreign interests on the other. The Justice Department is investigating James Wood, an Arkansas lawyer who became the first political appointee to head the American Institute on Taiwan, the unofficial U.S. embassy there. Natale Bellochi, Wood's predecessor as ait chairman, and Taiwan businessmen had reportedly informed the State Department that the Arkansan was improperly using his post to seek campaign donations for Clinton. Wood denies the charge...
According to Huang, who worked both for Lippo and as Stephens' vice president at Worthen, he first met Clinton when the Arkansas Governor traveled to Hong Kong on a trade mission. The two met again at the 1988 Democratic Convention in Atlanta. "A group of our friends, Asian-community people, went to attend the convention," Huang said last week in a deposition taken in a civil suit against the Commerce Department brought by Judicial Watch, a nonprofit conservative group investigating Democratic fund-raising practices. "So in one of the hotel lobbies we shake hands, and that...
...Huang became a fund raiser for Clinton's presidential campaign. "I was helping out to drum up Asian-community support," Huang said in the deposition. He volunteered for the job, he said, because Clinton "had been a friend to us since the Arkansas time, [and] we feel obligated to help a friend." But Huang added that his politics could be bipartisan. "I gave money," he said, "to the Republicans also...