(sentencing in 2002) DEMOCRAT ILLEGAL CHINESE MONEY SCANDAL DURING THE 1996 ELECTION CYCLE

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ernest G. Green, 60, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today by the United States District Court in Washington, D.C. to two years probation, 90 days of home detention and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine for failing to declare and pay taxes on income received from Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie.

Green entered a guilty plea on December 21, 2001, to a criminal information charging him with failure to file income tax returns. The defendant received, as income, $30,000 from Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie as part of a planned business venture.

The investigation was conducted by special agents of the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation assigned to the Justice Department's Campaign Financing Task Force.

Green is the 27th individual charged by the Department's Campaign Financing Task Force, which was established in 1996 to investigate allegations of campaign financing abuses during the 1996 election cycle. In addition, two corporations have been charged with criminal wrongdoing.

In April, 2001, Pauline Kanchanalak, a Thai national, and her sister-in-law, Duangnet Kronenberg, were sentenced to campaign financing-related charges in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. before Judge Paul L. Friedman. In June 2000, Kanchanalak pled guilty to felony conspiracy and misdemeanor campaign financing charges and Kronenberg pled guilty to one count of making an illegal $10,000 corporate political contribution to the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) federal account. Kanchanalak was sentenced to three years probation, six months home confinement with electronic monitoring, a $3,000 fine, and 200 hours of community service. Kronenberg received 18 months of probation and a $1,500 fine.

In January of 2001, James Tjahaja Riady paid a record $8.6 million in criminal fines and pled guilty to a felony charge of conspiring to defraud the United States by unlawfully reimbursing campaign donors with foreign corporate funds in violation of federal election law. In addition, LippoBank California, a California state-chartered bank affiliated with Lippo Group, will pled guilty to 86 misdemeanor counts charging its agents, Riady and John Huang, with making illegal foreign campaign contributions from 1988 through 1994.

On June 6, 2000, Audrey Yu, an employee of David Chang, pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., to conspiring to obstruct justice by providing a false document to a federal district court during the grand jury's investigation into campaign financing violations in New Jersey.

On June 2, 2000, David Chang pled guilty to charges that as a principal of Nikko Enterprises, Bright & Bright Corporation, Panacom Inc., and Hudson Terrace Realty Management Corporation, he conspired to funnel illegal campaign contributions to Senator Robert Torricelli's 1996 campaign. Chang also pled guilty to four substantive violations of the FECA for his role in funneling illegal campaign contributions in others names. Chang further pled guilty to corruptly attempting to persuade a potential grand jury witness to give false statements related to a financial transaction which was material to the grand jury investigation.

On June 1, 2000, Cha-Kuek Koo, a Korean national residing in New Jersey, pled guilty to violating federal election law by making illegal contributions to Senator Torricelli's campaign. Koo admitted to assisting David Chang in making conduit contributions using Koo's employees at LG Group, Executive Office of the Americas.

On April 5, 2000, a federal grand jury indicted two Buddhist nuns, Venerables Yi Chu and Man Ho, with contempt of court for failing to appear as witnesses in the government's criminal trial against Maria Hsia. Yi Chu and Man Ho remain fugitives. The Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division has the responsibility for this case and will handle the prosecution in the event either of the defendants, or both, return to the United States.

On March 2, 2000, Maria Hsia was convicted in federal district court in Washington, D.C., on charges of causing false statements to be submitted to the FEC. The trial had been postponed pending an appeal of a ruling by the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., which had dismissed some of the false statement counts. In May 1999, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. overturned the ruling and reinstated those counts. The task force dismissed a second indictment on tax charges after a jury in Los Angeles failed to reach a verdict. The Hsia case is before the U.S. Court of Appeals on the defendant's appeal.

On December 17, 1999, Yogesh Gandhi was sentenced to one year in prison for mail fraud, tax evasion, and violating federal election laws by aiding and abetting the making of a political campaign contribution by a foreign national.

On November 1, 1999, Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie, a Little Rock, Arkansas businessman, was sentenced, after pleading guilty, to a two-count information filed in Little Rock, Arkansas, to three years probation, four months home detention, 200 hours of community service, and a $5,000 fine for violating federal campaign finance laws by making political contributions in someone else's name and by causing a false statement to be made the FEC. Antonio Pan was also indicted with Trie in the District of Columbia, but has not been prosecuted because he has remained outside the United States.

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.

On August 16, 1999, a federal judge sentenced Robert S. Lee to three years of probation and 250 hours of community service for aiding and abetting the making of an illegal foreign campaign contribution to the Democratic National Committee.

On August 12, 1999, former Lippo Executive John Huang pleaded guilty to a felony charge, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, that he conspired with other employees of the Indonesia-based Lippo Group to make campaign contributions and reimburse employees with corporate funds or with funds from Indonesia. He was sentenced to one year of probation, 500 hours of community service, a $10,000 fine and directed by the judge to continue cooperating with the investigation as a condition of his probation.

In June 1999, Berek Don, former GOP party leader in Bergen County, NJ, pled guilty to another conduit contribution scheme to the Senator Torricelli Campaign. On December 1, 1999, Carmine Alampi, a Bergen County New Jersey attorney, pleaded guilty to the same scheme. Alampi was fined $5,000, with no probation, for his misdemeanor violation.

On March 23, 1999, Juan C. Ortiz, the Chief Financial Officer of Future Tech International Inc., was sentenced to two years probation, $20,000 in fines, and 200 hours in community service for acting as a conduit for an illegal campaign contribution and participating in the reimbursement of eight other conduit contributions.

On December 14, 1998, Johnny Chung was sentenced to probation and 3,000 hours of community service for bank fraud, tax evasion and two misdemeanor counts of conspiring to violate election law.

On November 24, 1998, Howard Glicken, a fund-raiser for the Democratic party, was sentenced to 18 months probation, an $80,000 fine, and ordered to perform 500 hours of community service for violating campaign finance laws.

On November 4, 1998, Franklin Haney was indicted on more than 40 counts, including among others, conspiring with another to defraud the United States by impairing and impeding the FEC and conspiring to violate specific provisions of federal election law. He was acquitted of all charges on June 30, 1999.

On September 30, 1998, Democratic fund-raiser Mark B. Jimenez was indicted in Washington, D.C. on 17 counts of organizing, making and concealing illegal conduit contributions to a number of Democratic campaigns, including the Torricelli Campaign. In December 1998, Future Tech International, Jimenez's Miami based computer sales company, pleaded guilty to tax offenses resulting from its illegal deduction of a $100,000 contribution to the DNC and employee campaign contributions reimbursed through the company's payroll. On April, 15, 1999, Jimenez, who is now in the Philippines, was indicted in Miami on additional charges of tax evasion and fraud. The Criminal Division of the Department of Justice will continue to pursue Jimenez's extradition from the Philippines. In the event of Jiminez's return to the United States, the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division has the responsibility for the prosecution of the case.

In 1997, the Task Force obtained guilty pleas from Democratic fund-raisers Nora and Gene Lum, and their daughter Trisha, and Michael Brown for illegal fund-raising activities after their cases were referred from Independent Counsel Daniel Pearson. In August 1998, Gene Lum pleaded guilty to filing a false 1994 tax return and falsely preparing Nora Lum's 1994 tax return. After cooperating with the government, he was sentenced in June 1999, to two years in prison. Nora Lum was sentenced to 5 months in a halfway house, 5 months in home detention, and ordered to pay a $30,000 fine, a sentence which Gene Lum also served separate and apart from the sentence he received for his tax-related conviction. Trisha Lum and Michael Brown each received probation, a $5,000 fine, costs of more than $7,000, and were ordered to perform 150 hours of community service.

HERE IS THE NG LAP SENG SING-ALONG ON YOUTUBE - http://youtube.com/watch?v=jx1JDiXtwsQ

CLINTON RE-ELECTION FUNDS TRACED TO ASIAN PROSTITUTION RING
Charlie Trie Member of Triad Organized Crime Gang

By Marvin Lee

On no less than six occasions from 1994 to the election in 1996,
Macau crime syndicate figure Ng Lapseng passed customs at San
Francisco airport declaring suitcases full of cash, ranging from
$12,000 to $175,000 in amount. On every occasion, Ng Lapseng
entered the White House the day after. On no occasion did the
White House report any political contribution to the Federal
Election Commission from Mr. Ng Lapseng. It would have been
illegal, a violation of several laws governing official bribery
and political contributions.

If these suitcases full of cash coming in from Macau raise
questions about unreported illegal contributions to the Clinton
White House, the source of the money raises even more questions.
Congressional investigators Edward Timperlake and William C.
Triplett II have traced the cash back to Macau on mainland China
by visiting Mr. Ng Lapseng’s headquarters of operation there, the
Fortuna hotel. It turns out to be a brothel in the Asian
tradition with 30 “VIP” rooms where “hostesses” brought in from
all over the world meet the needs of their male clients.
Timperlake and Triplett also discovered that Ng Lapseng is a
partner with Clinton donor Ted Sioeng in a firm called “Ang-Du
International” that procures Thai women for Macau brothels.

Ng Lapseng is the proud owner of a group photo of himself
together with Bill and Hillary Clinton, shaking hands and
smiling.

Ng Lapseng (also known as Ng Lap Seng) is tied not only to the
People’s Republic of China and its military industry through arms
dealer Wang Jun, but also to Chinese organized crime, the Triads.
This is where his business association with Charlie Trie comes
from. Triplett and Timperlake have discovered—and confirmed—
that long-time Clinton friend Charlie Trie is a member of the
“Four Seas” Triad gang.

An unpublished 1988 U.S. Justice Department report listed Triad
businesses as “narcotics trafficking, money laundering, contract
murders, illegal gambling, loansharking, extortion, interstate
prostitution rings and alien smuggling.” In addition, Triads
have become valuable adjuncts of People’s Republic of China
intelligence services. It seems the Chinese government has used
Triad members to funnel cash to Bill Clinton.

In their new book, “Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised
U.S. Security for Campaign Cash,” Tripplett and Timperlake
document the numerous concessions the Chinese Communist Party has
won from Bill Clinton: a reversal on Taiwan policy, access to
U.S. military technology, at least one spy inside the U.S.
government, and a strategic foothold on U.S. soil in Long Beach,
just to name a few.

In addition to the suitcases of cash that Ng Lapseng carried
himself, he wired more than $1 million to his U.S. associate
Charlie Trie, who has been a friend of Bill Clinton since 1979.
Trie in turn, through conduits, laundered the money so it could
end up at the DNC or at Clinton’s legal defense fund.

The questions that are raised by the discoveries of Triplett and
Timperlake are these: did the suitcases of cash that Ng Lapseng
brought with him on the visits to the White House represent
proceeds of the Triad crime operations that include the
prostitution at the Fortuna hotel, and did the $1 million-plus
that Ng Lapseng wired to Charlie Trie for laundering into the DNC
and the Clinton defense fund represent funds that he funneled for
the Chinese Communist Party in return for the favors they were
asking of Clinton?

Definitive answers to these questions are hard to come by,
because everyone in a position to know, including those once
inside the White House, have either pled the Fifth or fled the
country. More than 100 witnesses sought by Congress are
unavailable for questioning. And the Justice Department is not
investigating.

Triplett and Timperlake’s new book “Year of the Rat: How Bill
Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Campaign Cash” is available
from the Washington Weekly web site at http://www.federal.com

Published in the Nov. 2, 1998 issue of The Washington Weekly
Copyright 1998 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
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RUSH AND DRUDGE FINALLY REPORT ON HILLARY CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD - welcome to the party
Limbaugh radio, Drudge ^ | July 6, 2007 | Doug from Upland

Posted on 07/06/2007 10:15:28 AM PDT by doug from upland

Attention NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, LOS ANGELES TIMES, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, TIME, NEWSWEEK, ETC ETC ETC --- contact me through FReepmail if you want to know the story. ===================================================================

First, a special hello to Rush. I have already left a message for your producer with my phone number. Peter Paul and/or I will be very pleased to go on the air to explain the story. The civil case Paul v Clinton will be heard in Los Angeles Superior Court. Hillary will be under oath. A new smoking gun video, filmed by Peter Paul on July 17, 2000, has been released. It shows Hillary's solicitation and coordination of an in-kind hard money donation in excess of $1.6 mil. It was illegal from its inception. Hillary has filed four false FEC reports and turned in a false declaration to the court. WATCH THIS VIDEO

Well, FReepers, perhaps people will finally start paying attention. Rush and Drudge mentioned it. Here is the story.

On FreeRepublic, this story was posted this morning -- Hillary Clinton's Former Campaign Finance Director Indicted

When the Admin Moderator saw it and realized that is was an old story, he changed the headline to the way it should have been written: (January 2005) Hillary Clinton's Former Campaign Finance Director.

Rush was obviously on FR this morning (oh, okay, perhaps he saw it on Drudge), saw the story before the date correction, and spent several minutes discussing it on his show. Millions of people heard it. Now, only about 290 million people are still in the dark about the greatest campaign finance fraud in history.

Drudge picked up on it, but it only lasted for a few minutes when he realized it was from 2005. While my printer was printing the story, it was removed from Drudge's site. I came close to not getting it. Here is the scan:

I hope Rush will correct the date of the story. At least we have many millions more with knowledge that there was some kind of campaign finance fraud. That is at least some progress. Come on, Rush, your audience now wants to hear from Peter Paul. It will make a difference.

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