Word: wiriadinatas
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...party as questionable or worse. In the Oval Office we also see Clinton courting James Riady, whose family controls the Lippo Group, the Indonesian conglomerate with major projects in China, and questionable D.N.C. contributions. And then there is the Boris-and-Natasha moment, when Clinton is greeted by Arief Wiriadinata, the Indonesian gardener who with his wife somehow contributed $450,000 to the Democrats--later returned--and who tells the President, "James Riady sent...
...Friday the Democratic Party announced that it would return $450,000 it had received in 1995 from Arief and Soraya Wiriadinata, two Indonesians with ties to the Riady empire who lived briefly in Northern Virginia. Only 10 days before, Democratic National Committee chairman Don Fowler had said the donation was legal and had been "thoroughly reviewed." But on Friday the D.N.C. said that the Wiriadinatas had "not filed their U.S. income tax return for 1995" and that the committee could not take the money "in these circumstances." The D.N.C. said it would return the money--just as soon...
...routine get-well card to Hashim Ning, co-founder and major shareholder of the Lippo Group, a $6 billion insurance, banking and real estate empire controlled by Indonesian patriarch Mochtar Riady. Not long after the card was received, Hashim's daughter and son-in-law, Soraya and Arief Wiriadinata, donated $425,000 to the D.N.C. The Wiriadinata couple, who were living in suburban Virginia, had been U.S. residents for only a short time. They have since returned to Indonesia, where several of the checks they contributed may have been signed...
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