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Democratic fund raiser John Huang has been out of sight in Washington, but he was practically stalking the President last week in Australia, where Clinton played golf with Greg Norman, ogled the scalloped opera house in Sydney and stomped through a rain forest near the Great Barrier Reef. No matter where Clinton went to get away, he found himself deflecting questions about Huang and his former boss, Indonesian banker James T. Riady. "Mark Twain said every dog should have a few fleas," the President quipped; "keeps them from worrying so much about being...
...Huang & Co. hounded him Down Under, Clinton and his aides were partly to blame. Back home, White House officials issued clarifications that came out in dribs and drabs. There were two patterns in the disclosures. First, the contacts between Clinton, Huang and Riady were more numerous and substantive than previously acknowledged. Second, whatever the White House said about the flap before the election may no longer be operative...
...nature of Huang's job at the Commerce Department, where he was employed before becoming a Democratic fund raiser, became a little clearer as well. Huang had maintained that he scrupulously avoided doing any work on matters that involved his former employer, Riady's Lippo Group, while at the department. Last week logs showed that Huang telephoned the office of a Riady subsidiary, the Lippo Bank in Los Angeles, 70 times during his 18-month tenure at Commerce. The Los Angeles Times has reported that a number of contributors gave donations to the Democratic Party sometimes within days of talking...
...D.N.C. said it would return the money--just as soon as it found a working address for the couple. That will bring the total sent back to donors by the party since late September to more than $1.5 million, more than half of which had been raised by Huang. On Saturday a top Justice Department official said the fbi may soon start to interview Huang's network of donors...
...rebuffed a call by Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona for a fifth independent counsel to investigate allegedly illegal contributions to the Democratic Party by wealthy foreign nationals. But other requests are pending, and last week offered new evidence of possible transgressions by former party fund-raiser John Huang. The Los Angeles Times reported that several Asian business executives visited or called Huang when he was a Commerce Department official, in at least one case seeking a specific favor from the White House, and sometimes within days wrote big checks to the Democratic National Committee. Also, in an interview with...