Posted on 08/25/2007 6:01:09 PM PDT by Dr. Marten
The corrupt "Two-Party Cartel".
This seems like a shortened version of the Downside Legacy!
Excellent post here, I totally agree.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884984/posts
Road to Moscow: Bill Clinton’s Early Activism from Fulbright to Moscow
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http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2000/June/350crm.htm
Excerpt:
Pauline Kanchanalak, a Thai national, and Duangnet Kronenberg today agreed to plead guilty to campaign financing-related offenses and to cooperate in the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation, the Campaign Financing Task Force announced.
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Kanchanalak caused more than $690,000 in foreign money to be contributed to the DNC and other political committees between 1992 and 1996. All of the illegal contributions were made on checks drawn on the accounts of Duangnet Kronenberg and Praitun Kanchanalak, who is Duangnet Kronenberg’s mother and Pauline Kanchanalak’s mother-in-law. A portion of the funds that were used to make the illegal contributions were provided to Kronenberg and Praitun Kanchanalak by Ban Chang International (USA), Inc. (BCI), a Cayman Islands corporation of which Pauline Kanchanalak was President. Duangnet Kronenberg also was an officer of BCI.
According to the Superseding Information, Kanchanalak engaged in the conspiracy in order to gain favor with the DNC, and thereby to gain attendance to fundraising and political events with President Clinton, members of his Administration, and prominent members of the business community. Kanchanalak and her coconspirators believed this would help develop business and networking opportunities for Kanchanalak and BCI’s clients. More than $457,000 of the illegal contributions caused by Pauline Kanchanalak were provided to the DNC and five state Democratic party committees in connection with a “coffee” held at the White House on June 18, 1996. The coffee was attended by, among others, President Clinton, Pauline Kanchanalak, John Huang, and two executives of Charoen Pokphand Group (also known as the CP Group), a Thai corporation.
Count Two of the Superseding Information charges Pauline Kanchanalak with causing BCI to make an illegal $20,000 corporate contribution to the DNC’s federal account in May 1994, in criminal violation of the Federal Election Campaign Act (”FECA”).
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On September 15, 1999, Lawrence Penna, the former President of a now-defunct New Jersey securities firm, was charged with violating election laws by funneling illegal campaign contributions to the 1996 federal election campaigns of President Clinton and Senator Torricelli. Penna’s case was transferred by agreement to the Southern District of New York where charges relating to his violation of United States’ securities laws were pending.
David Chang, an international businessman, is one of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors. He visited with President Bill Clinton at the White House on several occasions and claims to have eaten pizza with the President in South Korea. On April 13, David Chang was placed under 24-hour house arrest for allegedly coercing a former employee to lie about the methods in which he made campaign contributions.
Chang is a target of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Campaign Financing Task Force. His house arrest stems from taped conversations made by federal investigators between fired Chang employee Chris Kim and Chang in which Kim was reportedly asked to lie to federal authorities about Chang’s alleged laundering of $80,000 in South Korea. At the time, Chang was free on $500,000 bail after being charged with making illegal campaign contributions to Senator Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) in 1996.
A letter from the Justice Department released in mid-April states the government has evidence that Chang “received and/or solicited” help from Senator Torricelli on four matters. These matters are helping to unfreeze Chang’s assets in North Korea, helping him purchase a South Korean insurance company, writing college recommendations for relatives and making introductions for him with foreign dignitaries.
Torricelli’s office admits to helping try to unfreeze Chang’s North Korean assets, but reports it was unsuccessful. Chang received bipartisan support in his attempt to buy the Korea Life Insurance Company as well as seeking Torricelli’s assistance, but that also failed. On a trip to South Korea last September during negotiations on the sale, Chang was accompanied by President Clinton’s chief fundraiser Terrence McAuliffe.
Regarding charges that Chang funneled $23,000 to Torricelli’s 1996 Senate campaign, three people have already pled guilty to the illegal activity and one has fled the country. Chang passed money to members of the Bergen County (NJ) Democratic Party leadership which then reimbursed others for their donations to the Torricelli campaign. Torricelli’s initial response was to speculate that every member of Congress gets donations from such “straw donors,” and that “people have to learn to take these laws seriously.” He denies knowledge of any illegal contributions.
>>>A Federal judge orders a trial on July 25, 1994 to determine if Hillary Clinton’s heath care task force illegally operated in secret.<<<<
Healthy People 2010 is the result of this health care task force:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
Healthy People 2010
Indeed, it does!
Gee, get with the program
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886162/posts
BREAKING HARD ON FREE REPUBLIC - Peter Paul Passes Polygraph in Paul v Clinton Case
In 1993, John Huang was very close to the Clintons, having worked with both Bill and Hillary during the Arkansas years at the part-Indonesian-owned Worthen Bank. Bill Clinton’s personal choice for the Commerce Department was former Lippo banker John Huang.
Indonesian billionaire Moctar Riady and James Riady paid Huang very well at Lippo Bank, much more than any income he could legally earn at the Commerce Department.
Huang pulled down six figures while at Lippo but barely broke $50,000 a year inside the Clinton Commerce Department. When Huang left Lippo for the Clinton administration, he bravely took a major cut in pay and a secret clearance.
Mrs. Clinton reportedly insisted that John Huang be given a position at the U.S. Commerce Department under Ron Brown. Mrs. Clinton has not made any public comment on her relationship with Huang’s employer, Indonesian billionaire Moctar Riady. Yet there is a very nice picture of Mrs. Clinton greeting Moctar Riady in the White House.
Indonesian billionaire Moctar Riady has been accused of passing illegal monies to the 1992 and 1996 Clinton-Gore campaigns. His son James pleaded guilty to passing illegal money to the Clinton campaign.
Ironically, the CIA also accused Riady of working for Chinese military intelligence. According to a 1998 CIA report presented to Senator Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., “James and Moctar Riady have had a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency. The relationship is based on mutual benefit with the Riadys receiving assistance in finding business opportunities in exchange for large sums of money and other help.”
“The Chinese intelligence agency seeks to locate and develop relationships with information collectors, particularly with close association to the U.S. government,” states the CIA report on Riady.
John Huang
Documents from Huang’s office show that while at the Commerce Department he worked on weapons exports. Huang had detailed documents covering proposed exports of Patriot missiles to South Korea, artillery to Kuwait, attack helicopters to the Netherlands, and fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates.
During his stay at Commerce, Huang obtained a secret clearance and attended more than 37 classified briefings from the CIA.
Huang’s documents show that the Commerce Department and the CIA were aware of massive corruption inside electric power plant deals for Indonesia. The “corruption, collusion and nepotism” cost the U.S. and Indonesian taxpayers billions of dollars siphoned off into the corrupt Suharto family dictatorship.
John Huang pleaded guilty in 1999 to federal charges of making illegal political contributions to the Clinton-Gore campaign. In addition, Huang took the Fifth Amendment over 2,000 times when asked under oath if he was an agent of the Chinese government.
The federal judge in charge of Huang’s case has cited him for contempt for not answering questions under oath. Still, the judge has never enforced any penalty on the convicted felon for not answering questions.
Blame It on Freeh
Bill Clinton mentions the Chinagate scandal in his 957-page book only once, blaming the entire series of events on FBI Director Louis Freeh.
“I didn’t believe Freeh was foolish enough to think the Democratic party would knowingly accept illegal contributions from the Chinese government, he was just trying to avoid criticism from the press and the Republicans,” writes Clinton.
Of course, Clinton does not go into the close working relationship his wife had with Johnny Chung. Chung frequently paid visits to the White House, delivering brown paper bags of cash to the first lady – no questions asked.
In 1996, the head of Chinese military intelligence, General Ji, met with Johnny Chung in the basement of a Hong Kong restaurant. At the same time, Johnny’s daughter and her teenage friend were inside communist China, under the close supervision of Chinese army agents.
“We like your president,” General Ji told Chung before passing a check for $300,000 across the table. “We want him re-elected.”
Considering that his daughter’s life was at stake, Johnny Chung was certainly in no position to disagree with General Ji. Some of the $300,000 in red army money made it to Clinton and Gore through the Democratic National Committee.
Johnny Chung pleaded guilty and currently cites his bank-account record as proof that Chinese army money was passed to the Clinton-Gore campaign.
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Horrible flashback ping {{{{shiver}}}}
Remember Les Aspin’s news conference when he said he wouldn’t send tanks into Somalia to back up US troops because ‘we’re saving the tanks for Bosnia’. That let the cat out of the bag that the admin. was planning to send US ground troops to the mess in Bosnia without any by your leave from congress or the people who pay the bills. With that remark, US participation in Bosnia turned into air strikes.
BTTT
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