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...disappointed in Yah Lin ("Charlie") Trie's decision not to appear at the Senate's hearing on campaign fund-raising abuses, but not because I'm eager to learn more about how to make wire transfers for shady purposes from Macao. I wanted to hear more about Charlie Trie's Chinese restaurant in Little Rock...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: FBI agent Jerry Campane told the Senate campaign finance panel that Charlie Trie, a restaurant owner in Arkansas, had dipped into a $905,000 payment from a business partner in Asia known as Mr. Wu to reimburse himself for a $220,000 donation he made to the DNC, and to pay back other associates who made similar contributions. Since the money originated from a foreign source and disguised the name of the real contributor, the contributions may have been illegal. Did the money come from the Chinese government? Hard to say, since Trie and his partner have refused...
...proceeding at a much slower pace to investigate Huang and his web of donors. Thompson is limited by law in his scope, dogged by Democrats to expand the probe and pressed by his own party's conservatives to confine it. Meanwhile, key Democratic fund raisers, including Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak, have either fled the country or were abroad to begin with...
...Republican counsel in the Watergate hearings, was still looking for the basic elements of political spectacle: star witness, clear story line, boffo ending. Virtually every principal figure on the foreign-money side of the scandal plans to take the Fifth or has fled--bankrollers James Riady, Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak are living in Asia, beyond the reach of subpoenas...
...during the '96 election, was a lobbyist at the same firm as Brown and was also a Kennedy confidant. The Lums have tales to tell about many other figures in the fund-raising scandal. They crossed paths with the likes of notorious Democratic fund raisers JOHN HUANG and CHARLIE TRIE. And NORA LUM certainly knows her way around the White House: she visited 18 times during Clinton's first term...