Word: loaned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...founded and chaired--the National Policy Forum--with foreign cash in 1993, but was waved off by its president. "It would be wrong to do so," wrote Michael Baroody in a confidential memo obtained by TIME. Barbour nevertheless lined up Hong Kong collateral for a $2.2 million loan to the Forum. The money helped free up funds for the successful Republican assault on Congress in 1994, and it aided the party again two years later when the Hong Kong guarantor absorbed $500,000 of the unpaid balance. Senate investigators are now trying to determine whether the Forum was used...
...development in the foreign fund-raising scandal centers on a donation to Thompson's party. According to documents turned over to Senate investigators on Friday, then G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour discussed the possibility of helping a Hong Kong tycoon get business in China if he forgave a $2.2 million loan to a Republican think tank. Barbour has denied this latest allegation...
...halfway house and implying that Smaltz had been overzealous. In March a federal judge threw out Smaltz's case against Espy's brother Henry, saying the government didn't have enough evidence to prove that he had defrauded federal election authorities or lied to get a bank loan when he tried to win Michael's old House seat...
...damaging to the Clintons, McDougal allowed that it certainly couldn't help them. Maybe so, but McDougal has little credibility. His willingness to cooperate with Starr has slashed his possible 84-year prison term to just three years for his role in the collapse of Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. The real qustion that must be worrying the Clintons is whether he is backing up his stories with evidence of any wrongdoing. McDougal may be colorful, but isn't colorful financing the charge behind Whitewater...
...count in, Croatiannationalist strongman President Franjo Tudjman has won an easy victory, sidestepping Western media reports that incomplete voter lists had allowed only 10 percent of the country's thousands of ethnic Serbs to have a voice at the polls. Buoyed by recent U.S. approval of a $13 million loan, Tudjman took a tough line toward the U.S. during his campaign, calling Western criticism of his human rights record an attack on Croatian independence. "The West doesn't plan to play out the financial incentive for change," says Stiglmayer, "and Tudjman knows it." Although candidates calling for greater democracy took...