Charlie Trie arrested in Taiwan
Alleged extortion scheme lands
Chinagate convict in police department
By Julie Foster
� 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
According to major Taiwanese television and print media, Charlie
Trie, pal of the Clinton administration and convicted player in
the 1996 campaign finance scandal, was arrested for extortion
today in Taipei.
Trie was granted permission to return to Asia last month on
business after completing his community service sentence in
Little Rock, Ark. His return was anything but uneventful,
however, as Trie is now accused of extorting 5 million Taiwan
dollars (about $178,000 U.S.) from the founder of his dead wife's
religious organization.
Upon returning to Taipei, Trie contacted Sing-Bond Lin -- the
founder of a Buddhist educational foundation and soon-to-be
ex-husband of a famous Taiwanese actress -- on June 11. Lin's
foundation is one of many in Taiwan that educates members in the
Buddhist faith and spiritual healing.
Through an intermediary, known as Mr. Wu, Trie asked the
foundation to pay 8 million Taiwan dollars to compensate for the
death of his wife, Wang Mei.
Lin had told Trie's wife that if she worked as a volunteer in the
organization, only Buddha could save her life from cancer.
According to Trie, his wife volunteered for four months, and as a
result of her hard work, died.
The foundation's chief executive officer, Ting-Wen Chuang, told
Taiwanese media, "In June of this year, Charlie Trie asked Mr.
Lin and other organization officials to meet at a restaurant in
Taipei to talk about compensation."
The foundation sent its secretary and CEO to the meeting, which
included Trie and his friend Wu.
According to Chuang, "Trie said he would find someone to falsely
testify and also give information to the news media to keep
pressure on the organization," and mentioned that he had a good
relationship with the Taiwanese Mafia.
As a result of negotiations, foundation officials agreed to pay
Trie 5 million Taiwan dollars and arranged for a pickup of the
money. They then reported the extortion scheme to Taipei police
Saturday night.
The Taipei police department criminal division rushed to the
scene of the pickup -- a local restaurant -- this morning, where
they arrested Trie with the money and took other witnesses back
to the police department.
Trie was smiling as policemen fingerprinted him, said reports,
and was released on bail.
According to Lin's foundation, Trie was a member of the
organization with his wife, but the two had been inactive for
some time.
"The organization has nothing to do with Charlie Trie, although
Charlie Trie's wife is a volunteer who later died of cancer,"
Chuang said. "The organization had nothing to do with this.
Charlie Trie and others came not once, but several times to
harass [the foundation.]"
Trie pleaded guilty last year in the United States to violating
campaign finance laws and completed four months of home detention
as part of his sentence. His lawyer said he needed to travel
abroad for a new job marketing videophones in Asia and elsewhere.
A district court judge granted Trie's request but required him to
report by telephone monthly to a federal probation officer in
Arkansas.
Trie, who owned a restaurant in Little Rock, is accused of moving
more than $700,000 in illegal contributions from foreign
nationals to the Democrat Party, President Clinton's 1996
campaign and various Democratic politicians.
In May 1999, Trie pleaded guilty in Little Rock to two felonies
related to campaign finance laws. Besides four months of home
detention and three years probation, he was fined $5,000 and
ordered to perform 200 hours of community service.
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