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Even as he raised his gavel to open the hearings, Thompson knew that the committee's Democrats had found a way to steal the show. For weeks the man at the center of the scandal, former D.N.C. fund raiser John Huang, had refused to testify; so when Glenn disclosed in his opening statement that Huang might be willing to talk if he were granted some partial immunity, Republicans growled that it was "nothing more than an opening-day stunt." White House aides, who had been nervous that the retiring former astronaut might try to depart the Senate with a statesmanlike...
Until the campaign ended, Huang looked like a fund-raising phenom. But it was a success that Giroir helped make possible. Investigators tell TIME that at a May 1996 fund raiser organized by Huang, Giroir wrote a check to the national party for $25,000 and let Huang fill in the names on three other checks of $25,000 each that wound up in state party coffers. And on July 30, at Huang's direction, Giroir contributed a total of an extra $75,000 to three states...
Huang got his wish of a D.N.C. job in late 1995 and went on to become the most central figure in Washington's fund-raising mess. And yet he remains a mystery. If he was a P.R.C. spy posing as a fund raiser and didn't want to leave any footprints, why would he submit receipts for taxi rides to the Chinese embassy? If he was busily slipping secrets to his old firm, the Lippo Group, why did he refuse the chance to win higher security clearances...
Hello, my name is Wayne, and I'm a political fund raiser. So I have some confessions to make. For almost 20 years I've been raising money for Republican candidates. And despite all the scandals, congressional investigations and independent counsels, I believe fund raising is a legitimate part of our political system. To raise money, a candidate needs a mixture of charm, inspiration and persuasion--qualities also essential to success when candidates become officeholders...
...course, as long as the current rules are in place, I'll still play by them. And until there is a better alternative, so will every other fund raiser--and politician...