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Justice Dept. Ignoring Evidence On Chinese Campaign Contributions
Source: Fox News
9.39 a.m. ET (1339 GMT) July 27, 1999
By Carl Cameron
A Justice Department task force investigating alleged illegal
foreign contributions to the Democratic Party has possessed
potentially incriminating documents since the fall of 1997, Fox
News has learned.
The documents � bank records from Citibank, which has branches in
New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong � indicate that big-time
Democratic donor Johnny Chung received $300,000 from Chinese
government officials.
Sources say Chung in 1997 turned over the records, which show he
received a wire transfer from Citibank's Hong Kong branch from
Liu Chaoying, a vice president at China Aerospace, a firm that
helps loft satellites into orbit on Chinese rockets. China
Aerospace has worked numerous times with U.S. satellite makers
Hughes Electronics and Loral Space & Communications, whose chief
executive, Bernard L. Schwartz, was the top donor to President
Clinton's re-election campaign, contributing almost $1 million.
Liu Chaoying, who is also a lieutenant colonel in China's
People's Liberation Army, introduced Chung to the head of Chinese
military intelligence, Gen. Ji Shengde, who arranged to have
$300,000 wired to Chung, who has since said he gave only a small
portion of that money to the Democrats. (Gen. Ji was recently
demoted from his position, reportedly because of the transfer of
funds.)
Chung has pled guilty to campaign finance violations and is
cooperating with government investigators. His appearance before
Congress in May was the first voluntary appearance by more than
100 people with connections to alleged Chinese attempts to
influence the 1996 elections.
Sources say the Justice Dept. never bothered to pursue the bank
records, a simple piece of evidence that would have revealed that
the origin of Chung's cash was one of China's top spies.
A senior DOJ task force source said investigators chose to
concentrate on other leads and in recent months have run into
problems with Citibank's reluctance to supply additional
information. The DOJ source said both U.S. and Chinese banking
regulations made pursuing the lead very difficult.
More Leads Ignored
There is also a battle raging within the Department of Justice
campaign finance task force over how to proceed with the
plea-bargained sentencing of long-time Clinton friend and
fund-raiser Yah-Lin Charlie Trie, who has pleaded guilty to
fund-raising violations.
Sources familiar with Trie's DOJ cooperation say some FBI
investigators want to hold off on Trie's sentencing in order to
pursue his allegations that top Democratic National Committee and
White House officials were aware of � and on at least two
occasions encouraged � illegally funneled foreign contributions
to the Democratic Party during the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign.
Sources close to Trie say he has been trying to tell
investigators about several alleged illegal contributions from a
mysterious Macao businessman named Ng Lap Seng.
Also known as Mr. Wu, Seng, who has ties to Asian organized
crime, allegedly funneled several hundred thousand dollars to the
DNC through various illegal means.
Sources with knowledge of Trie's testimony say, however, that
top-level Justice Dept. political appointees have expressed
little interest in Trie's revelations and want the case wrapped
up.
Sources say Johnny Chung, too, is telling friends he offered the
Justice Dept. new details of White House and DNC knowledge of
foreign fund-raising impropriety, but investigators "did not want
to hear it."
One senior Justice Dept. prosecutor expressed his frustration to
Fox News, saying there is "fertile ground" to till and that he is
being pressed to ignore it.
Chung, meanwhile, is trying to get a book deal. Sources say he
has been turned down by several publishers because he is seeking
a million-dollar advance.
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