"UNPRECEDENTED" they said...???
...or just since 2000?
http://www.investigatemagazine.com/pr05.htm
"A US Senate investigation recently found that James Riady and the Lippo Group ‘have had a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency’, and that Riady and Lippo have been making illegal donations to US President Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign fund.
"In addition, Riady’s assistant in the US, John Huang was appointed to a top job in the US Commerce Department at the insistence of the Clintons, but was then arrested in regard to these matters and identified as a Chinese spy. Riady and Lippo group were also involved with drug-bank BCCI.
courtesy CNN
"When US Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown was killed in a mysterious plane crash, he was replaced as Secretary of Commerce by Mickey Kantor – Lippo Group’s US lawyer. Kantor then appointed another Lippo executive to the Commerce Department.