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Behind Korea's Park is a top Washington defense attorney...
...Whether Park's visit will add much to the Koreagate picture is unclear. South Korean authorities have doubtless rehearsed him on what to say-and not say -about his activities in the U.S.; in exchange for getting him back, the Justice Department has agreed to drop an indictment charging Park with 36 counts of assorted crimes, including bribery, mail fraud and failing to register as an agent of a foreign government. But Park could still risk jail should he commit perjury in his interrogation; and Leon Jaworski, the House Ethics Committee's Special Counsel, is persuaded that that...
Ever since the dogged Watergate veteran signed on with the House's Koreagate investigation last July, he has been trying to question Park. He will get his chance this week and next at closed-door Ethics Committee sessions in the Rayburn House Office Building. His aim is to get Park to go beyond what he told Justice officials last January in Seoul. There, Park said he had given $750,000 not only as political campaign contributions but also as "gifts" to five former Congressmen. At the same time, Park denied paying off all those named on the lists assembled...
After Jaworski is done, Park will go before the Senate's Ethics Committee for more closed-door testimony. Although that is expected to be relatively brief, he is certain to be questioned closely on his claim that he contributed $20,000 to Hubert Humphrey's 1972 presidential campaign, a charge that Humphrey aides have denied. After his Senate session, Park will begin talking in public: first as the star witness at the trial of former California Congressman Richard Hanna, indicted for having accepted more than $100,000 in bribes; then to the House committee in open sessions...
When Tongsun Park touches down in Washington this week for his rendezvous with congressional Koreagate probers, he will have few legal problems to fear. Attorney William G. Hundley, a wry, wisecracking former Justice Department crime fighter, has arranged full immunity from prosecution for Park in return for his testimony in criminal proceedings. If Park testifies truthfully before congressional committees, he will return to Korea a free man, largely as the result of Hundley's hard bargaining...