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...followers in the U.S. The donations appear to have been generated at Ching Hai meetings in several U.S. cities, where followers were urged to contribute to the Clintons' defense fund. Some members gave directly; the Washington Post reported that others were told contributions would be made in their name. Trie's ties to the group are a mystery, but then so is the cult. Sect members, who worship a 46-year-old woman whose real name is Hue Thi Thanh Wallenstatter, are said to believe in, among other things, the curative powers of their master's bathwater, the Wall Street...
Late Friday night the D.N.C. released 3,000 pages of documents showing that Huang worked closely with Trie toward such goals. Huang, the documents say, raised $3.4 million for the President's party, nearly $1 million more than previously reported. How much Trie raised still isn't known, but the documents show that from one dinner alone, he raised $100,000. He was so successful that Fowler wrote Trie to thank him, noting approvingly that he had been named a co-chairman of a special Asian-American fund-raising-event. Fowler urged Trie to ask for help "if there...
During that same period, Trie had generated similarly large sums for another worthy cause: defraying the Clintons' Whitewater-related legal bills. Michael Cardozo, executive director of the President's Legal Defense Trust, disclosed last week that Trie walked unannounced into Cardozo's office on March 21, introduced himself as a friend of the President's, and handed over two big manila envelopes. Inside, says Cardozo, were checks and money orders totaling $460,000. It was an astonishing donation. At that time, the trust had raised only $1.1 million...
...While Trie went to lunch downstairs at the tony Palm restaurant, Cardozo sifted through the checks. Some were plainly unacceptable. The Clinton defense fund accepts checks of $1,000 or less from individuals who are U.S. citizens only--not from corporations, lobbyists or federal employees. When Trie came back from lunch, Cardozo returned checks worth $70,000, while keeping the rest in escrow pending an investigation. The contributions were literally too good to be true: though some appeared to come from different people in different cities, the handwriting was often the same and some of the money orders were...
...White House was concerned about Trie and his methods, it gave little sign. Cardozo informed Hillary Rodham Clinton and deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes of the problems with the Trie donations on April 4. At the time, Mrs. Clinton didn't recognize Trie's name until Cardozo identified him as a Little Rock restaurateur. Two weeks later, Trie was named by the President to a federal advisory panel on Asian trade, a plan that had been in the works for months. On April 24, Trie again visited Cardozo, this time handing over $179,000 in donations. Cardozo refused them...