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...founded the liberal Democratic Study Group and, as chairman of the House Subcommitee on Labor-Management Relations, has pushed for federal financing of jobs for urban youths. He also helped create the National Endowment for the Arts. Though he took campaign contributions from the South Korean lobbyist Tongsun Park, Thompson has been regarded by his fellow Congressmen as an honest politician. In fact, he enthusiastically advocated public financing of election campaigns. "The House," he said not long ago, "needs to be taken off the auction block...
August 1977. Tongsun Park, a Korean businessman, was indicted for bribery and later testified that he had made payoffs to 31 legislators. Eighteen-month congressional investigations of "Koreagate" led to little action. The only man actually imprisoned was former Congressman Richard Hanna, 65, California Democrat, who was sentenced to a 2½-year prison term. Otto Passman, 79, Louisiana Democrat, was brought to trial but acquitted. Charles H. Wilson, John McFall and Edward Roybal, all California Democrats, were reprimanded by the House, but Wilson and Roybal are still there...
...pearl and diamond stickpin). That is, until 1978, when Wilson gained national headlines for his part in the "Koreagate" scandal. The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct found Wilson guilty of lying to conceal the fact that he had received an illegal cash gift of $1,000 from Tongsun Park, the Korean influence peddler, and the entire House voted overwhelmingly to "reprimand...
Monroe, La., probably has not seen so much unction since the halcyon days of Huey Long. There was smiling Tongsun Park signing autographs and granting interviews. He acted more like a Cajun politician than a disgraced influence peddler turned Government witness in the $213,000 bribery −tax evasion trial of former formidable Congressman Otto Passman, his old friend, in Passman's home town. Park even accepted an invitation to talk to 50 high school journalism students. Samples of their Q. and A.: How did he like Cajun food? Great, especially gumbo and rice. How were morals among young...
Harvard also negotiates the terms of donations. In 1971, the Corporation accepted $1 million to endow a chair in Korean studies from the Korean Traders Association, a quasi-governmental business group that practices the Tongsun Park style of public relations. Steiner said when the Koreans began dictating that its newly purchased professorship teach only economics, Harvard balked until the KTA agreed to leave educational decisions to the Faculty...