Word: lippo
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...swelled with $100,000 more after a series of fortuitously timed meetings. On June 14, Arnold gathered presidential confidants, including Jordan, McLarty and McLarty's senior aide Mark Middleton, for dinner. A week later, Middleton began a flurry of White House sessions with James Riady, head of Indonesia's Lippo conglomerate, and his lieutenant John Huang. Middleton's lawyer Robert Luskin said his client played no role in lining up a Riady payment. On June 23, Riady, who had befriended Clinton years earlier in Arkansas, met Hubbell for breakfast, had a presidential audience at the White House and then...
...summer, Rubin and other U.S. officials urged the International Monetary Fund to take the lead. Washington did not regard the Thai or Malaysian economy as vital to American interests, and in a year that had seen far too many fund-raising stories about Jakarta's Mochtar Riady and the Lippo Group, the Administration could hardly take the lead for anything Indonesian. Despite prosperity at home, the nation--and Congress in particular--was in no mood to be generous. In November, Congress killed $3.5 billion in new borrowing authority for the IMF as part of an unrelated dispute over foreign family...
...Justice Department's campaign-finance task force may soon confer immunity on ARIEF and SORAYA WIRIADINATAS, the Indonesian couple who were the largest individual donors to the D.N.C. in '96. The pair, who are closely tied to Lippo Group principals MOCHTAR and JAMES RIADY, say they gave $450,000 to the D.N.C. at the urging of JOHN HUANG (the money has since been returned). Though they could help build a case against Huang and others, they may opt not to play and remain in Indonesia. The task force, meanwhile, is pressuring frequent donor Johnny Chung, by threatening an indictment...
...with us tonight." At another he praises John Huang, the Democratic fund raiser who solicited a good part of the contributions that have since been returned by the party as questionable or worse. In the Oval Office we also see Clinton courting James Riady, whose family controls the Lippo Group, the Indonesian conglomerate with major projects in China, and questionable D.N.C. contributions. And then there is the Boris-and-Natasha moment, when Clinton is greeted by Arief Wiriadinata, the Indonesian gardener who with his wife somehow contributed $450,000 to the Democrats--later returned--and who tells the President, "James...
While the hearings did a good job of tracking Huang's money trail, they failed to fill out the portrait of a man who moved along his career track like a phantom. He left Lippo in 1994 for a mid-level job at the Commerce Department--one that his boss said he wasn't qualified for--and moved on, 18 months later, to the Democratic National Committee's finance office. How he engineered the moves has been a mystery--and remains one. Soon after Clinton's Inaugural, Democratic activist Maeley Tom, who worked as a Lippo consultant, wrote a letter...