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...stayed in regular contact with Lippo no matter what his occupation. Also under scrutiny are the CP Group of Thailand, headed by Chearavanont and represented in Washington by former Democratic fund raiser Pauline Kanchanalak, and San Kin Yip Group of Macau, a business partner of fund-raiser Charlie Trie. Like Lippo, both companies are owned by ethnic Chinese and have ties to Beijing officials. Federal investigators are also looking into the business practices of Johnny Chung, the Chinese-American entrepreneur who gave the Democrats $366,000 during a period in which he helped raise about $1.5 million from foreign investors...
...administration's most egregious campaign finance mistake was its failure to look into (or its willful oversight of) the ties to China of Ng Lag Seng and Charles Yah Lin Trie. Seng, who recently had his $15,000 DNC donation returned, formerly served on the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference...
...Trie, Seng's business partner, is an Arkansas restaurateur and longtime friend of Clinton who is believed to be the DNC contact who brought Wang Jun, a Chinese entrepreneur and the head of a military-owned arms company, to a coffee klatch for political donors hosted by Clinton...
...returning another $1.5 million in campaign contributions from 77 donors, bringing to almost $3 million the amount it has given back. Three-fourths of the suspect money was brought in by three Chinese-American moneymen: D.N.C. fund raiser John Huang, former Arkansas restaurant owner Charlie Yah Lin Trie and Johnny Chung, who brought six mainland Chinese businessmen to one of Clinton's radio addresses...
...documents do illustrate a few cases in which Lake and his staff prevailed in asserting national security over electoral victory. When Trie, a D.N.C. fund raiser and an old Clinton friend from Arkansas, asked for a presidential photo with Chinese officials he was hosting in April 1993, Lake argued against the meeting because the officials were not high ranking. He got his way. But as the Chung case shows, the President's donors had a greater interest in diplomacy than was previously known. In March 1996, Trie sent a letter to Clinton questioning whether his deployment of two aircraft carrier...