Flashback: Cash and Kerry

Newsweek ^ | Feb. 9 , 2004 | Michael Isikoff

[bitt]

John Kerry needed cash, and soon. In July 1996 the Massachusetts senator was locked in a tough re-election fight, so he was more than happy to help when he heard that a generous potential contributor wanted to visit his Capitol Hill office. The donor was Johnny Chung, a glad-handing Taiwanese-American entrepreneur. Chung brought along some friends, including a Hong Kong businesswoman named Liu Chaoying.

Told that Liu was interested in getting one of her companies listed on the U.S. Stock Exchange, Kerry's aides immediately faxed over a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The next day, Liu and Chung were ushered into a private briefing with a senior SEC official. Within weeks, Chung returned the favor: On Sept. 9 he threw Kerry a fund-raiser at a Beverly Hills hotel, raking in $10,000 for the senator's re-election campaign.

[bitt]

"Who, Meeeeeeeeeee.....????????",

Kerry's encounter with Chung and Liu would turn into a political embarrassment. Federal investigators later discovered that Liu was in fact a lieutenant colonel in China's People's Liberation Army and vice president of a Chinese-government-owned aerospace firm. And Chung, who visited the Clinton White House 49 times, went on to become a central figure in the foreign-money scandals of 1996. Chung eventually pleaded guilty to funneling $28,000 in illegal contributions to the campaigns of Bill Clinton and Kerry. According to bank records and Chung's congressional testimony, the contributions came out of $300,000 in overseas wire transfers sent on orders from the chief of Chinese military intelligence—and routed through a Hong Kong bank account controlled by Liu.

[satchmodog9]

Can anyone explain why Clinton, gore and Kerry are not hanging upside down from a bridge. Oh yes, gutless GOP leadership.Karl Rove is a traitor in the eyes of the MSM and these tools are not. Oy.

[bitt]

When Jean F'n demands more paperwork from President Bush and John Roberts, I want the American public to demand an accounting for THIS episode in his life....

and then I want to see his form 180.

"In January 1998 he told the Boston Herald that the timing of the SEC meeting and the subsequent fund-raiser was "totally coincidental" and "entirely staff driven."

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[CHARLITE]

Thanks very much for the ping, bitt!

It is a great idea to post these flashbacks. We will need a ton of them, when it comes time to fight like he$$ to defeat Killery!

Char :)

[RandallFlagg]

"Doooon't tell me what to doooooo."

"Klaus Nomi. A man who looks exactly how he sounds" -Rush Limbaugh

[Smartass]

Add to "Hanoi John's" 180 form, a true confession from Chappaquiddick Ted...

THE CHAPPAQUIDDICK COVER-UP

by Leo Damore

Sometime between 11:30 pm. and 1 a.m. on the muggy, moonlit night of Friday, July 18, 1969, a car careened off a bridge on an obscure New England island and plunged into a tidal pond. The driver of that car was Edward Moore Kennedy, then a 37-year-old United States Senator, and the sole surviving heir to one of the most glittering political dynasties in American history Riding with him was Mary Jo Kopechne, only ten days away from her 29th birthday Kennedy lived. Mary Jo Kopechne died.

Nearly two decades have passed since the car driven by Senator Kennedy plunged off Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island. In the intervening nineteen years, Kennedy has seen the specter of that mishap haunt, frustrate, and finally foil his presidential ambitions. Not even the Kennedys' daunting political weight has been able to suppress the questions left, until now, unresolved by the official investigations into the accident: Why was a married United States Senator with Miss Kopechne in a remote part of Chappaquiddick Island? Why did he flee--how could he flee--an accident scene while she remained trapped, suffocating, in a car beneath the waters of Poucha Pond? And why did he not report the accident to the police until 10 a.m. the following morning?

What had begun in effervescence--six unmarried "Boiler Room" girls (former workers on Robert Kennedy's campaign staff) and six married men, partying in a rented cottage--had ended in tragedy Chappaquiddick shook the Kennedy dynasty to its very foundations, ending perhaps forever the presidential dreams of Ted Kennedy. Yet, on a deep and human level--the level of crime and punishment, of right and wrong--Chappaquiddick also came to symbolize cover-up, incompetence, and ruthless, raw power, a cruel travesty of justice.

Here, for the first time, are the words of Joe Gargan, Kennedy's cousin, co-host of the Chappaquiddick party, and trusted operative of the Kennedy clan, who finally decided that he had protected Ted Kennedy long enough. Gargan gives his candid recollections of the night of the party, and provides an eye-witness account of the initial attempts to rescue Mary Jo. Here, also, is a detailed report of how Kennedy, his high-powered lawyers, and his public relations counselors were able not only to contain investigations into the accident and Kennedy's conduct afterward, but to cover up numerous facts and implications in order to shield Kennedy against legal and even moral accountability

In seeking the answers to the many questions that surround the Chappaquiddick incident, Leo Damore conducted over 200 interviews, many with people close to the case--including police officers--who had never before spoken to the press. He had access to the files on Chappaquiddick locked in the district attorney's vault in Barnstable, and to personal notes about the case kept by key investigators of the accident. The result of his meticulous research is Senatorial Privilege, the true story of what really happened during those dark hours at Poucha Pond, and, over the months ahead, in the world of the Kennedy compound, as a massive apparatus of power and influence schemed and plotted to assure for Ted Kennedy life-after-Chappaquiddick's-death.

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[luvie]

Thanks for the ping! That man is one sick puppy! I don't understand how he keeps getting re-elected--even if he is a Kennedy! The people of Mass. can't be that immoral as a whole--can they?

[smoothsailing]

Thanks for the ping.

Hanoi John,that insufferable treasonous flipflopdootytwit.

I wonder if Hanoi Jane is saving him a seat on the Canola Express.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Spineless US Senate would rather protect Hanoi Kerry
than deal with the anti war crowd.

Anyone who thinks Hanoi Kerry isn't behind the anti war crowd needs to get a clue.

It's time to support our troops and ignore the jelly fish in the US Senate!

There is no need to impeach Hanoi Kerry from the US Senate

He is there illegally!

WAKEUP AMERICA!

For those who "forgot" what Hanoi Kerry
did in the past read on and learn the truth.

Hanoi Kerry was still a USNR officer while he:
gave false hearsay testimony to Congress
negotiated with the enemy
helped the US lose a war
abetted in the deaths of millions
created a hostile environment for all servicemen

Why is Kerry still in the US Senate?
This is in violation of
U.S. Constitution Amendment 14 Sec 3
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html

And the FBI has proof of his treason.

Hanoi Kerry Timeline of a traitor
includes FBI files

May 1970
Kerry and Julia traveled to Paris, France and met with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Vietnam (PRG), the political wing of the Vietcong, and other Viet Cong and Communist Vietnamese representatives to the Paris peace talks, a trip he now calls a "fact-finding" mission.

(U.S. code 18 U.S.C. 953, declares it illegal for a U.S. citizen to go abroad and negotiate with a foreign power.)

http://www.archive-news.net/Kerry/JK_timeline.html

a) A person charged with absence without leave or missing movement in time of war,
or with any offense punishable by death,
may be tried at any time without limitation.

http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/ucmj.htm#*%20843.%20ART.%2043.%20STATUTE%20OF%20LIMITATIONS

Distribute these url's!

Links to Anti Kerry sites
212 LINKS
News reports,
Viper's Vietnam Veterans Page

http://members.aol.com/ga1449ga/links/links.html


EXPOSE HANOI KERRY!

MUST SEE WEBSITE!!!!

http://www.kerrystreason.com/index.html

Full details on these url's!

http://stophanoikerry.150m.com

There is a backup site
if the 1st url is unavailable.

http://tonkin.spymac.net/hanoikerry1.html

Did you see this...?
(The 'Kerry's Promise Counter')
http://polipundit.com/index.php?p=6628
Polipundit even tells you how to install it on your own page!

Swift Boat Veteran For Truth John O'Neill Comments on Kerry's 180 'Release'
6/7/05
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1418592/posts

John Kerry was dishonorably dismissed from the Navy:
(statement from lawyers there at the time)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1406760/posts

Why does Hanoi Kerry continue to refuse to sign
form SF 180 and release his military records to the public?
Sam Sewell 09 June 2005

http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4388.html

[j_tull]

The people of Mass. can't be that immoral as a whole--can they?

You have no idea.

[gidget7]

And of course HE and The Slime who managed to become President, knew nooooothing about Liu's real "business!! Yeah right!! Again, Why is this man still in the Senate?? And is Corsi still planning to run against him. If so, where can I send a donation?

[luvie]

No, but I get an indication by the way they vote and the nutjobs that they support! LOL!

[gidget7]

No the people of MA aren't that immoral, but our government here definitely is!! And as corrupt a government as has ever seen the light of day! Money is how they keep getting elected.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[gidget7]

OK a lot of them are, but I truly believe most are moral, decent people, caught in a quagmire.

[luvie]

You guys are gonna have to get tough and make MA a red state! I'm sure it is hard with all the coruption but you at least have a start with a R governor. Is he, at least, above the fray?

[bitt]

Romney is chewed up like chopped liver every day.


I wish HE would run for Senator against Kennedy...
He's the kinda guy who could rise above the fray, while WE kick sand in the dem political machine's face.

[j_tull]

And as corrupt a government as has ever seen the light of day!

So what are you trying to say? That mob/union/Kennedy money keeps electing a veto-proof Dem majority? Are you saying that the RINO governor is assailed daily as a criminally conservative Bush-bot by the "press" and that the butt-sharks here believe it? Are you saying that a state that was once the co-seat of the American Revolution, later enacted a Constitution that requires appointed, not elected , Supreme Court justices to demand that the Legislature write a law commanding gay marriage? Are you saying that that same ruling requires that the marriages continue while that self-same constitution requires a two-year process to bring the matter to a vote of the people? Is that what you're saying? IS IT?

If so, you speak the truth.