Word: huang
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...unholy liaison between foreign dollars and diplomacy began as a small, quiet meeting in the Oval Office. Standing before Bill Clinton on a September morning in 1995 were James Riady, the suave Chinese-Indonesian financier who was pushing to keep U.S. trade lines to China open; and Huang, networker par excellence, offering to raise money for the Democratic National Committee from Asian Americans he thought were good for $7 million...
...gave their benefactors a fair hearing on party trade policy toward China, and both maintained elaborate ruses to hide their new sources of cash. Yet the Democrats, it turned out, were far more successful at the game than the Republicans, and no Democrat was a better player than John Huang...
...Huang got his wish of a D.N.C. job in late 1995 and went on to become the most central figure in Washington's fund-raising mess. And yet he remains a mystery. If he was a P.R.C. spy posing as a fund raiser and didn't want to leave any footprints, why would he submit receipts for taxi rides to the Chinese embassy? If he was busily slipping secrets to his old firm, the Lippo Group, why did he refuse the chance to win higher security clearances...
...hearings he will chair through much of the summer. Most of the primary witnesses have refused to testify, in fear of increasing their exposure to criminal charges now that a federal task force of FBI agents and prosecutors is proceeding at a much slower pace to investigate Huang and his web of donors. Thompson is limited by law in his scope, dogged by Democrats to expand the probe and pressed by his own party's conservatives to confine it. Meanwhile, key Democratic fund raisers, including Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak, have either fled the country or were abroad...
...Thompson's potential star witness, Huang may have as much value bound as unbound. The Constitution gives Huang the right to remain silent, but not to avoid a trip to the Capitol. If Thompson wants to compel Huang's appearance, all he needs to do is issue a committee order and, if necessary, get a judge to dispatch U.S. Marshal escorts to Huang's California home. And that would be only the opening act of a great political play...