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Today, Administration officials say they never bothered to investigate Huang's overseas connections because such checks aren't needed when a prospective federal employee has lived in the U.S. for at least the past five years. But David Harris, a former top official of the Canadian intelligence service who has studied the infiltration of Chinese spies into North American commerce, describes Huang's free pass as "horrendous." It is particularly disturbing, Harris says, because Lippo's shared ownership of a Hong Kong bank with the Beijing government could have opened an intelligence gusher to the People's Republic. "This failure...
...Once Huang joined Commerce, his appointment paid dividends. Secretary Brown led a trade mission to China the month after Huang arrived and returned with a $1 billion power-plant project to be financed by the Lippo Group and managed by Entergy Corp., a Louisiana-based concern with heavy interests in Arkansas. Commerce officials say Huang disqualified himself from any matters involving Indonesia because of his work for Lippo. But congressional investigators have uncovered documents to dispute that. They show that shortly after Huang joined the department, he attended two meetings at which officials from several federal agencies discussed ways...
...this year, Huang quit the Commerce Department to launch into his next career: Democratic fund raiser. He was an instant achiever. By all accounts he brought in more cash and aroused more enthusiasm among Asian Americans than any Democratic presidential candidate before Clinton had ever enjoyed. At a $1,000-a-plate dinner for Asian Americans in Los Angeles last July, Clinton proudly praised Huang for being so good at getting the audience to open its wallets. But on Oct. 18, Huang was suspended from his fund-raising slot after news leaked that he had solicited the $250,000 South...
More questions were raised by Huang's dozens of visits to the White House this year. Secret Service logs show 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...
...drumming up more donations abroad? Those are the questions at the heart of the lawsuit filed by the nonprofit, conservative group Judicial Watch, Inc. The suit became an election issue last week, when Judicial Watch lawyers were allowed to conduct a videotaped deposition of Democratic fund raiser John Huang. In addition, thousands of pages of Commerce Department documents have been turned over to the group...