With Friends Like These ... by Marin Cogan, Melanie Mason, and Barron
YoungSmith
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Clintons' shadiest donors.
Post Date Monday, February 04, 2008

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It's not that we expect politicians to have squeaky-clean donor lists. You
try running for office without, at one point or another, taking money from
someone you probably shouldn't. Even Barack Obama, Mr. Clean, has Tony
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Rezko. But the Frank Giustra-Kazakhstan-Uranium affair, blown
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html?ei=5065&en=6a843
530898e147a&ex=1202446800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print> open by The New
York Times last week, serves as a reminder that the relationship between the
Clintons and money has not always been lily-white. Here, a guide to the
unsavory characters who have been associated with Bill and Hillary Clinton.




THE DONOR
Norman Hsu, Hong Kong "apparel executive."

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THE GREEN
Hsu bundled more than $850,000 for Hillary's presidential campaign and
$260,000 for Clinton's Senate races.


THE SCANDAL
Hsu parlayed his charming, obsequious personality into a spot as one of the
top
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR200709150
1386_pf.html> twenty Democratic fund-raisers nationwide. Problem is, he
turned out to be a convicted felon, on the lam since 1992 due to a grand
theft conviction. Then, this December, Hsu was indicted
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119679269014413319-0cA4qAVFSiAMn9MYH
wFvJgIQpZ4_20080104.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top>  for running a pyramid scheme
that defrauded investors out of at least $20 million and that made $25,000 a
year in fraudulent political donations.


THE SLEAZE FACTOR (on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 somewhat sleazy and 10
stupendously so)
8. Hsu missed his initial (September 5) court date for the 1992 grand theft
charge, only to be apprehended a day later on a train in Colorado; he was
"freaked
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/08/MN9IS19EH.DTL>
out," shirtless, shoeless, and holding a suitcase packed with Tiffany
jewelry and $7,000 in cash. Now in federal custody, he confessed
<http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0920072hsu1.html>  to
running "phony
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119482937807389596-liX4_ARvtzRtiKKn5
HRVMFUKkl8_20071212.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top> " companies and leaning on
investors to make political donations.


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS (on a scale of 1 to 10)
7. Extensive Hsu coverage stretched out over several news cycles during
Hillary's presidential campaign, and the sordid details of the affair--the
pyramid schemes, the links to Asian gangs, the eccentric professional con
artist himself--stirred up memories of Clinton fund-raising scandals past.
Hillary blamed
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/10/AR200709100
2545.html?nav=rss_politics>  the fiasco on errors in the donor-screening
process.

  
THE DONORS
Marc Rich, fugitive American businessman; Denise Rich, songwriter and
socialite. 


THE GREEN
Denise Rich contributed
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504E3D91230F935A25751C0A967
9C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/R/Rich,%20Denise>  $70,000 to
Hillary's Senate campaign and $450,000 to the Clinton presidential library
fund.


THE SCANDAL
Over seventeen years after Marc Rich fled to Switzerland to avoid charges of
racketeering, illegal trading, and tax evasion (he owed $48 million), Bill
Clinton pardoned Rich during his last moments in the White House. His
ex-wife Denise's generous donations and Friend of Bill status gave the
pardon a particularly rotten stench. 


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
7.5. Rich has been accused of a long list of white-collar crimes. The
classiest: trading with Iran while the country was still holding U.S.
hostages.


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
9.5. As Hillary began her career in the Senate, a media frenzy and
investigations in both houses of Congress and the Justice Department were
launched to see if Denise's contributions bought her ex-husband's pardon.
Though the president was never indicted for wrongdoing, the Rich affair is
often mentioned as Exhibit A of Clintonian sliminess.


**


THE DONOR
Aaron Tonken, former Hollywood fund-raiser, current federal penitentiary
inmate in California.


THE GREEN
In 2000 he hosted a fund-raiser that took in more than $1 million for
Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign.  


THE SCANDAL
Tonken originally drew interest from the FBI for failing to report some
donations from the event to the FEC. Although he was never charged for
election-law violations, in 2003 he pleaded guilty to stealing from
charities, including, according to an ABC News report
<http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=248834&page=2> , the Betty Ford clinic.
He is currently serving a five-year sentence for mail and wire fraud.


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
9. The self-described con man got his start in Hollywood as Zsa Zsa Gabor's
dog keeper. He sold stories about her to tabloids and snuck tourists into
her dilapidated, dog feces-ridden mansion while she was out of town. In his
memoir, King of  <http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9781595550002-6> Cons,
Tonken wrote, "In a land of moral imbeciles, I knew I could be king." 


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
4. A fund-raising committee for Hillary Clinton's 2000 campaign had to pay
$35,000 in fines to the FEC for underreporting the costs of the gala, even
though a federal inquiry failed to find any culpability on the Clintons'
part. The financial burden to the Clinton campaign was insignificant--the
real harm done was in the image of guilt by association.


**


THE DONOR
Peter F. Paul, renaissance man, jack of all trades.


THE GREEN
He co-hosted
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR200510040
1150.html>  the 2000 fund-raiser with Tonken.


THE SCANDAL
How did Paul underwrite the gala? According to The Washington Post, by
improperly borrowing
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/04/AR200510040
1150_5.html>  more than $4 million from Merrill Lynch. Shortly after that
was discovered, Paul hopped a plane to Brazil and spent years waging a
two-front war: fighting extradition and trying to sue Hillary for
underreporting the value of the event. In 2003, Paul was extradited to the
U.S., and Clinton agreed to pay a $35,000 fine to the Federal Election
Commission.


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
9.5. You've gotta give this guy credit for flamboyance. According to The
Washington Post, Paul's laundry list of crimes includes a 1970s plot to sell
$8.75 million worth of nonexistent coffee beans to Fidel Castro--the plan
was to sink an empty cargo ship before it reached Cuba so he could keep the
cash. In 1979, he was imprisoned for fraud and cocaine possession, then
later violated parole, reportedly fleeing
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/11/nyregion/11clintons.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>  to Canada with a dead man's identity. After his release from prison in
the '80s, he served as partner and manager to Fabio.


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
4. Hillary offered the same explanation for missing Paul's criminal
background as she gave for missing Norman Hsu's: technical errors in the
vetting process. It worked--by 2008, most Americans have forgotten about
Peter F. Paul.


**


THE DONOR
Sant S. Chatwal, founder of Bombay Palace restaurants.


THE GREEN
In 2000, Chatwal hosted a half-million dollar fund-raiser for Clinton in New
York. In 2007, he declared his intentions to raise $5 million for Hillary's
presidential campaign.


THE SCANDAL
According to The
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/02/AR200709020
1436.html> Washington Post, as of September 2007, The IRS was pursuing him
for $4 million in back taxes, the State of New York for another $5 million,
and the FDIC is suing
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/fdichatwal.pdf>
himin connection with a failed bank venture. The Post wrote, "Yet none of
the legal and financial woes--occasionally touched on in American or Indian
newspapers or highlighted by political opponents--raised red flags inside
Hillary Clinton's fund-raising operation."


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
4. Though Chatwal's legal troubles span several suits and two continents
(he's also been charged with bank fraud in India), his alleged crimes lack
the color and imagination of, say, a Peter F. Paul. 


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
1. So far, none. But if any of the lawsuits against him come to a head
during election season, the timing would be awful for Clinton. 


**


THE DONORS
International Profit Associates (IPA) <http://www.ipa-iba.com/> , an
Illinois-based management consulting and business development company.


THE GREEN
Bill Clinton pocketed $125,000 for addressing IPA workers in December 2001.
The Chicago
<http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/06/sweet_blog_special_clinton_oba.html
> Sun-Times reported that firm employees have forked over nearly $130,000 in
contributions to Hillary's Senate campaigns since 2000.


THE SCANDAL
IPA has faced a string of scandals--most notably, a widely reported sexual
harassment suit involving 113 former female employees. Two of them told
their
<http://www.oprah.com/tows/slide/200509/20050930/slide_20050930_350_108.jhtm
l> stories on a 2005 episode of "Oprah Winfrey Show."


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
8.5. The harassment suit included accusations
<http://www.nbc5.com/news/2752476/detail.html>  that the CEO offered money
to a female employee in exchange for sex and that a sales manager would pin
female employees up against the wall and ask if they enjoyed intercourse. 


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
3. Though never a large-scale national scandal, it doesn't look good that
Hillary has, in effect, shrugged off what the lead attorney for the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (the federal agency leading the
investigation) called
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/nyregion/07company.html?ei=5088&en=64e3c8
b91c10c59e&ex=1304654400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all>  one of the
"most egregious case of sex harassment that the Chicago district office has
seen." Senator Clinton--unlike other politicians who received campaign
donations from IPA employees, such as Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle--has opted not to return the contributions.


 

**


THE REELECTION FUND-RAISING FIASCO

The tangled web of scandals associated with the Clinton-Gore reelection
campaign in 1996 led to hearings by a Senate
<http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/1-1.htm> committee led by
Fred Thompson. Though Thompson's hearings are widely considered
<http://nymag.com/news/features/34992/index5.html> to have been a bust,
several unsavory characters came to light. 

 

THE DONOR
Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie, Taiwanese-Arkansan restaurateur-turned-fund-raiser.


THE GREEN
Trie funnelled
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/trie.
htm>  more than $2.2
<http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/1-1.htm> million, much of
it from foreign corporate donors, to the DNC from 1994-1996 and helped
<http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/reports/105/sr167p2.105.pdf>  pay $460,000
<http://www.washingpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/op080397
.htm> of the Clintons' legal bills between 1994-1997
<http://www.opensecrets.org/clinton/legalfund/legal_early.asp> .


THE SCANDAL
Trie, who knew Clinton from his days as the owner of the Fu Lin restaurant
in Little Rock, moved to Washington in 1994 and began donating to the
Clintons and the DNC through various shady channels, including through
"straw donors," typically poor legal immigrants who stand in for foreign
businesspeople. 


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
7. Trie was notorious for peddling access to President Clinton. Most
distressingly, he set up a White House coffee klatch with a Chinese arms
dealer.


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
7. Trie earned the dubious distinction of being the first Clinton donor
indicted during the Justice Department's 1997 campaign finance
investigation. 


**


THE DONOR
John Huang, businessman and Commerce Department official under the Clinton
administration from 1993 to 1995.


THE GREEN
He raised $3.4 million for the DNC in 1996. Most of it has since been
returned.


THE SCANDAL
In 1996 Huang solicited an illegal
<http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/1-1.htm> donation of
$250,000 from a company in South Korea, as well as $425,000 from donors
whose U.S. citizenship was an issue of contention. He also co-organized a
1996 fund-raising event at the Hsi Lai Temple in Southern California, where
monks and nuns under an oath of poverty mysteriously contributed large sums
of money to the DNC. It was later revealed that they were reimbursed for
their donations by the church, and the money had to be returned.


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
7.5. Thompson's committee suggested darkly that Huang may have been acting
as an "agent of influence" for China, though the committee ultimately had
scant evidence supporting the plot.


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
8. Considerable. Though the money he raised was primarily for the DNC, Huang
had remarkable access to the president and the West Wing. The Commerce
Department even gave him a top-secret
<http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/1-14.htm> security
clearance--with a cursory background check far less thorough than normal
procedure--when he was still a private citizen.


**


THE DONOR
James Riady, Indonesian
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/riady
.htm> banking magnate.


THE GREEN
Riady and his business associates gave
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf052
797.htm> more than $700,000 to the Democratic Party between 1991 and 1997.
They also paid $100,000 to Clinton friend Webster L. Hubbell, who
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/hubbe
ll.htm> resigned from his job as associate attorney general after being
charged with tax evasion and mail fraud.


THE SCANDAL
Riady, a regular visitor to the Clinton White House, was busted
<http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/January/017crm.htm>  by the Justice
Department in 2001 for funneling foreign corporate money into Clinton's 1992
election effort. (He had to pay out
<http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2001/January/017crm.htm>  $8.6 million to the
DOJ--the largest campaign finance settlement in history.) In 1997, the
Thompson-led committee accused
<http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/2-18.htm>  Riady of
maintaining "a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency." 


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
7. Riady was a big fund-raiser for Bill from his Arkansas days, and
repeatedly pressed Clinton on sensitive foreign policy issues. Riady was
also closely linked to a number of other scandals, including the improper
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/huang
.htm> appointment of John Huang (a former manager at Riady's company) and
the Hsi
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/templ
e.htm> Lai Temple fund-raiser (which was organized by Huang). 


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
6. In 1997, pre-cigar, William Safire called the Riady affair "the
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E5D81F3DF93BA35753C1A961
958260> low point of the Clinton Presidency." Still, his name is all but
forgotten today. 


**


THE DONOR
Johnny Chung, a Taiwan-born, California-based businessman.


THE GREEN
He gave $366,000
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/players/chung
.htm>  in personal and corporate donations between 1994 and 1996. All the
money was returned by the DNC.


THE SCANDAL
Chung's contributions to the Democratic Party earned him significant access
to the Clinton administration: He made at least 49 visits to the White House
between 1994 and 1996. He arranged for five of his Chinese business clients
to attend a taping of one of President Clinton's weekly radio addresses
after making a $50,000 donation to the DNC. Furthermore, Chung claimed
<http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/05/11/chung/>  that part of his
donated funds came from sources connected to the Chinese government. (The
Chinese government emphatically denies the allegations.)


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
7. Ick! One radioactively slimy Chung quote
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE1D71F3EF93BA15751C1A961
958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all> : "The White House is like a subway: You
have to put in coins to open gates." 


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
7. Chung was one of the most recognizable--and damning-- figures in the
campaign finance controversy; 49 White House visits will have that effect. 


 
**


THE DONOR
Roger Tamraz, a Lebanese-American businessman.


THE GREEN
Tamraz and his company donated $300,000 to the Democratic Party in 1995 and
1996. 


THE SCANDAL
In 1996, Tamraz apparently sought to leverage his donations into a
face-to-face meeting with President Clinton over the objections
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/july-dec97/hearing_9-17.html>  of a
National Security Council staff member. Members of the Democratic National
Committee, the CIA, and the Clinton administration were all alleged to have
gone to bat on Tamraz's behalf to allow him access to the White House.
Tamraz then used the meeting to propose a $2.5-billion oil pipeline through
Central Asia, a proposal that was then passed on to officials in the Energy
Department. (Nothing ever came of it.) He was later a key witness
<http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/july-dec97/hearings_9-18.html>  at
the Thompson committee hearings.


THE SLEAZE FACTOR
7. Know when your reputation could use a boost? When The New York Times
writes sentences about you like this
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E4DF1E38F93AA2575AC0A961
958260> : "Indeed, in describing Mr. Tamraz in testimony on Wednesday and
again today, the adjective used most often by lawmakers was 'shady.'" (It
didn't help that when Joe Lieberman asked Tamraz at the Senate hearing if he
thought he got his "money's worth" for his $300,000 donation, Tamraz replied
"I think next time I'll give $600,000.") Also, at the time of his meeting
with Clinton, Tamraz was wanted
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E2D71338F93BA25750C0A961
958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all>  by Interpol for allegedly embezzling
hundreds of millions of dollars from a Beirut bank. In a separate case
before that, the Times reported, a French court had ordered him to pay $56
million for his role in the collapse of a French bank. 


THE DAMAGE TO THE CLINTONS
3.5. Not so bad in the context of the larger scandals. But Tamraz's name
continues to surface from time to time, most recently on the best-seller
list and the movie marquee. The saga of a man (modeled after Tamraz) using
cash to gain access and influence in the White House appeared in former CIA
agent Robert Baer's book See
<http://www.amazon.com/See-No-Evil-Soldier-Terrorism/dp/140004684X/ref=pd_bb
s_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195574852&sr=1-2> No Evil, which served as the
inspiration for Syriana <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365737/> .   




**


HONORABLE MENTIONS

So many donors, so little time. Here, other donors who have sullied the
Clintons' reputation over the years. 


 

Jeffrey Epstein: In 2002, the wealthy money-manager
<http://nymag.com/news/features/41826/>  and Friend of Bill flew the former
president in his private jet to Africa to discuss AIDS policy. He was
recently indicted on charges of soliciting prostitution from underage girls.
The Smoking Gun has the gruesome
<http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0726062epstein1.html> details.
(Warning: Link is disgusting.) 

John K.H. Lee: The South Korean businessman scored a meeting with President
Clinton in 1996 after making a $250,000
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf041
697.htm> donation to the DNC. Under U.S. federal election law, foreign
companies and individuals are not permitted to make donations, but Lee tried
to skirt the restriction by donating via a U.S. subsidiary of his company,
which, problematically, didn't really exist. When it was discovered in
September 1996 that the money had originated from Lee's South Korea-based
parent company, the DNC returned the contribution.

Pauline Kanchanalak: Kanchanalak, a business executive and Democratic
fund-raiser who met frequently with President Clinton, was sentenced to six
months of house arrest <http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2000/June/350crm.htm>
in 1996 for funneling $690,000 of foreign contributions to the DNC. She
claimed the money came from her in-laws. 

Ng Lap Seng: The businessman and owner of Macau's Fortuna Hotel (per
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/donor
s.htm> The Washington Post, "known as much for its prostitutes working the
lobby as for its floor show of whip-wielding, leather-clad dancers
upstairs") wired
<http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_rpt/sgo-sir/2-19.htm> more than one
million dollars to convicted Clinton donor Charlie Trie between 1994 and
1996 through a company the two co-owned--nearly a quarter of that money
ended up in the DNC's hands. Ng attended DNC events and met with the
Clintons at the White House. 

Abdul Rehman Jinnah: According to the Los Angeles
<http://www.caclean.org/problem/latimes_2007-04-15.php> Times, this
Pakistani immigrant raised more than $45,000 for Hillary Clinton's HillPac,
allegedly reimbursing employees who contributed to Democratic causes,
including Clinton's political action committee, which is illegal. He fled to
Pakistan after a grand jury indicted him for violations of election law in
2006, and was placed on the FBI "featured fugitives" list. He returned to
the U.S. last year. 

Ron Burkle: He's never been accused of any crimes, but Ron Burkle lies at
the center of any innuendo about Bill Clinton's post-presidential life. A
much-commented-upon May 2006 New
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/nyregion/23clintons.html?pagewanted=all>
York Times article
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/nyregion/23clintons.html?pagewanted=all>
stated, "Mr. Clinton is rarely without company in public, yet the company he
keeps rarely includes his wife. Nights out find him zipping around Los
Angeles with his bachelor buddy, Ronald W. Burkle." The zippy Burkle,
friends with Bill since 1992, often flies the former president in his
private Boeing 575, described by Clinton as "Ron Air" and "Air Force Two
<http://www.observer.com/node/32454> ." Burkle, also reportedly a "longtime
<http://www.nypost.com/seven/11202007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm> friend" of
Michael Jackson, has thrown lavish
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/magazine/18WWLNQ4.t.html> fund-raisers
for Hillary at Green Acres, his Hollywood estate. Rumors abound about the
supermarket
<http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/54/biz_06rich400_Ronald-Burkle_TTQT.html>
billionaire's private life. "Page Six" covered Bill's bachelor buddy
unfavorably, writing <http://www.observer.com/node/32454>  that he used the
jet to entertain young models--and that he was dating Gisele Bundchen.
Burkle then made headlines by secretly recording an alleged extortion
attempt by a reporter for the gossip column. He has also been accused of
using his influence as a Democratic donor to speed a law through the
California legislature that would have kept the
<http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m5072/is_3_27/ai_n9508596> records of
his messy divorce proceedings sealed.

Bill Clinton has been a senior advisor to Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. since early
2002. Clinton is only now trying to untangle
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120097424021905843.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
himself from the company, a move that will simultaneously free him from
questions about Yucaipa's ties to Dubai, while also netting a reported $20
million payday. One particularly shady deal Clinton's scheduler helped
Yucaipa arrange was its investment in Catholic Church properties at the
urging of a young Italian businessman named Raffaello Follieri. As The Wall
Street Journal reported last fall, in 2005, Follieri intimated
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119076741770539360.html?mod=blog>
to Clinton aide Douglas Band that Yucaipa could make a killing on the
deal--and that his ties to the Vatican would smooth the transaction. Yucaipa
plowed as much as $100 million into the venture, and Band was paid a
$400,000 "finder's fee" by Follieri. The Italian then spent Yucaipa's cash
on an apartment in New York, private jets, and gifts for himself and his
girlfriend, The Devil Wears Prada star Anne Hathaway. Burkle is currently
<http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-njdce/case_no-3:2007cv02711/case_id-
203245> suing Follieri for misappropriating at least $1.3 million.


Marin Cogan is a journalist in Pittsburgh. Melanie Mason is a journalist in
Washington D.C. Barron YoungSmith is a web intern at The New Republic.



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