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Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2001 9:31 a.m. EST
Burton Eyeing Chinagate Links to Clinton Library
Chief House Pardongate prober Dan Burton, R-Ind., has subpoenaed
the donor list to the Clinton Library Foundation, which is known
to include Denise Rich. But he thinks that list may contain key
evidence about an even more explosive Clinton scandal.
In a comment missed by most of the press, the tenacious
Republican said Sunday that he'll be keeping an eye out for other
Clinton library donors with ties to the Chinagate scandal.
"When I subpoenaed those documents from the president's library
board we didn't intend to go public with them unless there was a
need to do so," Burton told CBS's "Face the Nation" host Bob
Scheiffer.
"Now if we find out that the Lippo Group in Indonesia, James
Riady, or Mochtar Riady gave a huge sum of money - anybody
connected with John Huang or some of these others, including Marc
Rich - then of course that's something we'll take a look at," he
explained.
"Because we want to find out why some of these people got light
sentences and breaks from the previous Justice Department and
some of these pardons from the president."
James Riady, for instance, took a sweetheart plea bargain from
the Clinton Justice Department that had him paying $8 million in
fines but doing no jail time.
Huang and Clinton donor Charlie Trie got off with similar slaps
on the wrist.
Their political donations had to be returned when the light of
public scrutiny showed them to be illegal. But since the Clinton
Library is tax exempt it's not subject to disclosure laws. What
an excellent place for any friend of Bill to hide oodles of cash
contributions.
And so Burton may be on to something.
Even though the Washington Post went public with a list of 20
megabuck Clinton Library donors in 1999, the ex-president's
lawyer David Kendall has vowed to fight hammer and tong to keep
other names secret.
And then there's the much-overlooked report in the Far Eastern
Economic Review last September that claimed the Riadys expected
Clinton to join Lippo's board of directors after he left the
White House.
If true, that means they intend to keep bankrolling Bill and
Hillary - and just about the only way they could keep that secret
is to donate to the Clinton Library.
Burton's committee has given Kendall till Thursday to come clean
on the library list. After that, he'll be subject to contempt
proceedings, a committee spokesman said Monday.
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