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February 10, 2000
ESSAY / By WILLIAM SAFIRE
Justice in the Tank
Loeb's delicatessen on 15th street serves the best hot corned
beef sandwich in town. It was there I ran into Lee Radek, who for
years has been successfully making certain that no investigation
of illegal Asian money poured into the Clinton-Gore campaign
touches any of the higher-ups.
Munching a pickle, I asked how come the current trial of Maria
Hsia -- the longtime Gore fund-raiser charged with using Buddhist
nuns as conduits for $140,000 in illegal contributions -- was
being held in Washington, rather than near the Hacienda Heights,
Calif., temple, scene of the alleged crime.
"We thought this would be a better venue," the chief of the
cover-up replied. From his concealing standpoint, he's right --
the nation's capital is far better for acquittal or most lenient
sentencing of the defendant.
Reno Justice wants none of the Clinton-Gore Asian funny-money
traffickers such as John Huang, Pauline Kanchanalak and Charlie
Trie to face punishment that might induce them to involve any of
the famous recipients of China's largess.
In moving the trial of Hsia (pronounced shaw) to Democratic D.C.,
Reno Justice was certain it would get a Clinton-appointed judge.
That's because in all the "Asian Connection" cases here, the
chief federal judge bypassed the normal random assignment
procedure to direct all those cases to Judge Paul Friedman.
After this liberal jurist relieved Clintonites in 1998 by
dismissing as "Alice in Wonderland" five of six felony counts
against Hsia, the Court of Appeals overruled him, reinstating the
charges whose prosecution he so reluctantly oversees today.
(Feeling the heat of criticism about being the repeatedly chosen
instrument of the cover-uppers, Friedman last week got the chief
judge's egregious assignments stopped.)
Reno's Radek not only has a demonstrably anti-prosecution
Democratic judge but the usual 90 percent Democratic D.C. jury.
Hsia's lawyer reminded it this week that the defendant "is a
minority, supports Democrats and has all her life."
Witnesses against Hsia? Not to worry. John Huang, having been
given a walk and thus under no coercion to talk, will remember
nothing about Clinton-Gore involvement. Two potentially
incriminating Buddhist temple money handlers, given immunity by
Justice in return for promises of testimony, have fled overseas.
(It just didn't occur to ever-trusting Radek to pick up their
passports.) The judge won't allow the absent witnesses'
grand-jury testimony to be used at the trial.
No wonder Justice considers D.C. the best place to pretend to be
prosecuting the Clinton-Gore milking of Asian money sources. Only
here can it safely point to Maria Hsia as the evil mastermind of
a secret plot -- and portray the vice president and members of
his staff who were present at the Buddhist temple fund-raiser as
the innocent victims of her nefarious scheme. This argues that
the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, also present
with his hand out, was duped as well.
Reno Justice thus dumps everybody's guilt on Maria Hsia's head,
treating her as the Dragon Lady of money-laundering -- all the
while confident of her acquittal or (if the jury surprises) sure
of her gentle treatment in sentencing, or (if the judge suddenly
wants to learn the truth) relying on her presidential pardon
right after Election Day.
About that awful word, "truth": At first Gore said the
fund-raiser was merely "community outreach"; months later, he
amended that to knowing only it was "finance-related." But Gore's
10-year relationship with Hsia was always based on her
fund-raising; Harold Ickes sent him a memo that John Huang was
organizing the temple event to raise $250,000; and there stood
fund-raising Maria in a golden robe when he walked in. Yet he
still denies he knew he was raising Asian-generated money in a
Buddhist temple.
But Gore has never denied it to the Justice Department. That's
because no prosecutor, no grand jury, no F.B.I. agent has ever
dared to ask the vice president. Janet Reno protected him as
Maria Hsia will protect him. Gore has broken no law because -- as
we have seen all too often in the Clinton administration -- there
is no law against misleading the public.
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Shalom, A Salaam Aleikum, and to all, A Good Day.
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