Word: lindners
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...Lindner's contributions, Kantor said, "I couldn't have cared less. It made no difference to us whatsoever. We didn't hear a word from the White House...
...spokesman for Chiquita dismissed the suggestion that campaign contributions by Lindner had anything to do with the USTR's taking the case. "It is well known that Carl Lindner has been actively involved and a major contributor to candidates and other causes on a multipartisan basis for many decades," he said...
Over the next two years, Lindner continued to dispense cash to the Democrats. In June 1997, two installments of $10,000 each went to the Democratic National Committee Services Corp. In November he gave $75,000 to the D.N.C. and in February 1998 another $75,000. That was followed by contributions...
Throughout this period, Lindner and Chiquita enjoyed a close working relationship with the USTR office. Copies of U.S. government correspondence with heads of state in other countries were voluntarily turned over to Lindner. Finally, on Nov. 10, 1998, the USTR proposed 100% tariffs on several dozen European imports. The agency said the increased tariffs would be imposed on March 3, 1999, if Europe did not relent and relax its restrictions on Latin American bananas...
This week they begin a new series, "Big Money & Politics," which will probe the consequences of all the campaign cash Washington rakes in--in this particular case, from the direction of banana magnate Carl Lindner. Barlett and Steele, who spent 27 years at the Philadelphia Inquirer before coming to TIME in 1997, are no strangers to covering campaign-finance abuses, but this investigation was especially challenging because, says Steele, "politicians and lobbyists are going to greater and greater lengths to disguise what they...