Word: lippo
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...number of economic development projects," Daschle wrote to transition-team head Richard Riley. "I can personally attest to John's strong background in trade and Pacific Rim issues." Huang, who has become the symbol of shady Democratic fund raising, was then an executive with the Indonesia-based Lippo Group conglomerate, and interested in positions at Commerce, Treasury and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. According to Daschle spokeswoman Ranit Schmelzer, the Senator says he doesn't remember how he met Huang, who became Deputy Assistant Secretary at Commerce, and has no recollection of any "economic development projects...
...enough. What is hard to figure out is why it took them so long to come forward with it--and why Clinton's own statements have wandered from denial to ignorance to half answers. In January he said he had known nothing about Hubbell's being retained by the Lippo Group, an Indonesian conglomerate whose owners were long friendly with the President, until he read it in the newspaper late last year. Two months later Clinton conceded he had been aware as early as 1994 that such key political supporters as Texas businessmen Truman Arnold and Bernard Rapoport had given...
...probes are examining several paths down which they believe Chinese money may have flowed. A prime focus is the Lippo Group, the Indonesia-based conglomerate with major development projects in six Chinese cities. Its most famous former employee is Huang, the Commerce Department official turned fund raiser for the D.N.C., who stayed in regular contact with Lippo no matter what his occupation. Also under scrutiny are the CP Group of Thailand, headed by Chearavanont and represented in Washington by former Democratic fund raiser Pauline Kanchanalak, and San Kin Yip Group of Macau, a business partner of fund-raiser Charlie Trie...
...either party's coffers last year. "When the independent-counsel statute is triggered," Reno said once more, "I will take appropriate action." Even Kenneth Starr, the once and future Pepperdine law-school dean, was back in Little Rock, Arkansas, working an old angle: trying to discover how Indonesia's Lippo Group and seven other enterprises friendly to Clinton put his good pal, Webb Hubbell, on the payroll for a total of more than $400,000 after he resigned from the Justice Department in 1994. Starr wants to know if the White House or its agents urged Lippo and others with...
...President and his wife. A Clinton adviser suggests that Starr is merely leaking word of such a memo to keep the Clinton camp off balance. But when it comes to Hubbell, Clinton has a way of sounding flummoxed. Asked recently if he knew anything about Hubbell's Lippo contract, the President denied knowing about it in advance eight times in nine sentences. "I can't imagine who could have ever arranged to do something improper like that," he said. That's what Starr is determined to figure...