-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a prelude to war! <A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/updates/lat_trie000205.htm">FBI Details Democratic Fund-Raising Abuses</A> http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/updates/lat_trie000205.htm FBI Details Democratic Fund-Raising Abuses Probe: A 74-page report recounts numerous election-law irregularities by businessman Charlie Trie. By WILLIAM C. REMPEL and ALAN C. MILLER, Times Staff Writers A letter, shown in the background, seeking the president's help identifying a mystery guest at the White House, was sent via Nicole Seligman, one of Clinton's personal attorneys. Democratic fund-raiser Charlie Trie is pictured in the foreground. latimes.com composite WASHINGTON--Newly obtained FBI documents show that Democratic fund-raiser Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie smuggled a wealthy Taiwan businessman using a false identity into the White House to meet President Clinton. The incident is among numerous revelations in a confidential summary of Trie's statements to federal investigators that are certain to reverberate during an increasingly contentious election-year debate over campaign finance abuses. The bizarre episode, regarded as a serious breach of presidential security by federal officials, occurred at a White House holiday party Dec. 13, 1996--days before Trie fled the United States to avoid authorities investigating fund-raising improprieties. Trie, a former Arkansas restaurateur and friend of Clinton, was interviewed extensively by FBI agents after he pleaded guilty in May to election-law violations and agreed to cooperate with investigators. He also named new sources of secret foreign funds that were funneled into the last presidential campaign. A 74-page FBI report obtained by The Times offers the first detailed account of illicit foreign fund-raising by Trie, one of the most notorious financial supporters of Clinton's 1996 reelection effort. Trie, for example, revealed for the first time the role of Tomy Winata, a Jakarta billionaire with financial ties to the Indonesian army and an aide to the chief of Chinese military intelligence. Trie said Winata sent him $200,000 in travelers checks to "help out" with donations, a portion of which Trie used to make illegal contributions to the Democratic National Committee and reimburse donors to the Clinton legal defense fund. Federal law prohibits campaign contributions from foreign sources as well as hiding the true identity of donors. Trie's account also could further embarrass Vice President Al Gore by shedding new light on a particularly damaging event from the Democratic front-runner's past. Trie told the FBI that he first suggested either Clinton or Gore visit the Hsi Lai Temple in Southern California, specifically to raise political funds. Trie called Democratic fund-raiser John Huang with the proposal, he said, adding that they shared an understanding with "Asians in general that there was a lot of money" at the temple. Gore, surrounded by saffron-robed nuns and monks, attended a luncheon at the Hacienda Heights temple that raised $140,000 for the Democratic National Committee--a visit that came to epitomize the 1996 fund-raising scandal. The vice president later denied that he knew the event was a fund-raiser. Both Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the Republican winner in last week's New Hampshire primary, and former New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, Gore's Democratic rival, have hammered the vice president for his role in 1996 fund-raising excesses. <SNIP!> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <A HREF="http://www.ardemgaz.com/search%5Fweek/sat/ark/a1xtucker5.html">Scan dal ties turn up at Tucker's new job</A> http://www.ardemgaz.com/search%5Fweek/sat/ark/a1xtucker5.html Scandal ties turn up at Tucker's new job NOEL E. OMAN ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Jim Guy Tucker may be a half a world away these days, but it's never far enough from Whitewater. The former Arkansas governor is in Jakarta, Indonesia, to help run a cable TV company -- a not-unlikely role since he and his wife, Betty, have nearly 20 years of experience in the business. The cable company, however, is controlled by the family of James Riady, the Indonesian businessman, friend of President Clinton's and prominent figure in some of the scandals that have dogged the president. Riady has been linked to a fund-raising scandal concerning foreign donations to Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign. In addition, his family's financial conglomerate, the Lippo Group, paid longtime Clinton friend Webb Hubbell -- a former Little Rock lawyer and associate U.S. attorney general -- a $100,000 consulting fee while Hubbell was under criminal investigation. Riady's family has supported Clinton's campaigns dating to his years as Arkansas governor, when Lippo held an interest in the former Worthen Bank in Little Rock. When the Riadys lived in Little Rock, they became acquainted with Clinton and other Arkansans, including Tucker. Tucker confirmed that he started helping run the Jakarta cable company in March 1999, when he was cooperating with Whitewater prosecutors. Two months later, he was sentenced in the second of two convictions stemming from the Whitewater investigation. His dealings with Riady, first reported by The Wall Street Journal last month, began in 1996, a year after Tucker was first indicted. But Tucker said his current role should be no surprise because of his long-standing relationship with Riady and his background in the cable business. "Mr. Riady has been my friend for over 20 years," Tucker said by e-mail. "We attended church together during the time he lived in Little Rock. "I believe most of the Arkansans who have invested in Indonesia over the past decade or so have done so at the invitation of the Riady family." The former governor confirmed the substance of the story in the Journal, which could not reach him for comment. But he added that contrary to the Journal's report, he made the initial investment, not Betty Tucker. "The investment was mine, not Betty's, and I bought physical assets, not a company," Tucker said. In 1996, Tucker invested $6.5 million in equipment that was turned over to a Riady-affiliated Indonesian cable company. He received a guaranteed minimum 5 percent annual return. The Riady family later took control of the business through a company called Tanjung Bangun Semesta. In March 1999, Tucker was hired to help run the company, which bought his cable equipment and paid him with a minority stake in the company. Two months later in U.S. District Court in Little Rock, Tucker was placed on four years' probation, ordered to pay $1 million in restitution and fined $6,000 for his role in putting a Florida cable company through a sham bankruptcy to avoid paying taxes. Tucker faced five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine, but at sentencing, Whitewater prosecutors recommended probation because he admitted guilt and cooperated. Deputy Whitewater prosecutor W. Hickman Ewing Jr., noting that Tucker testified twice before a Whitewater grand jury and met with prosecutors 15 times, said at the time that the ex-governor provided "substantial assistance," including documents. "He helped resolve some things -- some helped exonerate some people; some helped incriminate some people," Ewing said then. A spokesman for the independent counsel's office declined to comment Friday on whether prosecutors knew about Tucker's relationship with Riady when the former governor was cooperating. Tucker declined to comment on whether he made the prosecutors aware of that relationship. "But my travels here are well-known and, as you can imagine, I have made extensive financial disclosures," he said. Tucker served 18 months of home detention for his 1996 convictions on fraud and conspiracy in a trial with James and Susan McDougal, Clinton's former business partners. U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. also sentenced Tucker to four years of probation. Tucker was elected lieutenant governor in 1990 and became governor in 1992 shortly after Clinton won his first presidential bid. Tucker was elected to a full four-year term in 1994. He resigned in 1996 after his first conviction. This article was published on Saturday, February 5, 2000 **COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! 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