-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- February 26, 2000--NYTimes Singapore Man Charged With Lying About Campaign Contributions By DAVID JOHNSTON WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- The independent prosecutor investigating Labor Secretary Alexis M. Herman has returned an eight-count indictment charging a Singapore businessman with lying about the source of $200,000 in political contributions to Democratic Party groups, court records show. The indictment against the businessman, Abdul Rahman, was returned on Feb. 16 but was not disclosed by Ralph I. Lancaster Jr., the prosecutor in the case. Mr. Lancaster did not return a telephone call today, and efforts to contact Mr. Rahman were unsuccessful. The first count in the indictment accused Mr. Rahman of making a false statement, a felony. The remaining counts, misdemeanors, accused him of improperly making contributions as a foreign citizen. While Mr. Rahman's name has not surfaced before, he appeared to be the businessman who was cited, but not identified, by Attorney General Janet Reno when she referred Ms. Herman's case to an independent counsel in May 1998. In her referral, Ms. Reno said that the Justice Department had received accusations that an unidentified "foreign national" had been solicited by a company owned by Ms. Herman and a partner, Vanessa Weaver, to provide money for illegal contributions to Democratic groups in return for furthering his business interests. Ms. Reno said in the referral that she had no evidence that Ms. Herman, Ms. Weaver or anyone had violated the law. But she said a preliminary investigation had corroborated some aspects of the accusations. The accusations were made by Larent J. Yene, a Cameroonian who lived and ran a business in the United States. He said that Ms. Herman, when head of the White House public liaison office, had improperly agreed to accept payments in return for generating business for a consulting company she owned jointly with Mr. Yene and Ms. Weaver. Today, Ms. Herman's lawyer, Neil Eggleston, did not comment on the indictment, which made no reference to the labor secretary. The indictment said that Mr. Rahman had made the contributions to the Democratic National Committee and to several state Democratic Party organizations in the names of Ms. Weaver, her sister and several other Weaver relatives, who were each identified as a "contributor falsely identified." E. Lawrence Barcella, a lawyer for Ms. Weaver and her sister, said the two women had done nothing wrong. czarxina <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! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
