DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTON
SECTION: THE STORY OF A CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE
SUBSECTION: PROSECUTION
Revised 8/9/99

CONVICTIONS
INDICTMENTS AND TARGETS
OTHER CRIMINAL/TERRORIST ASSOCIATES

CONVICTIONS


Webster Hubbell
Jim McDougal
Susan McDougal
Gov. Jim Guy Tucker
Stephen Smith
David Hale
Eugene Fitzhugh
Charles Matthews
Robert W. Palmer
Chris Wade
Neal T. Ainley
Larry Kuca
William J. Marks, Sr.
John Latham
John Haley
Michael Brown (Ron Brown's son)
Eugene Lum
Nora Lum
Johnny Chung
Tyson Foods
Sun Diamond Growers
Richard Douglas
James Lake
Ron Blackley
Smith Barney
Crop Growers Corporation
Brook Keith Mitchell Sr.
Five M Farming Enterprises
John J. Hemmingson
Alvarez T. Ferrouillet, Jr.
Municipal Healthcare Cooperative
Ferrouillet & Ferrouillet
Linda Jones
Patsy Jo Wooten
Allen Wooten
Roger Clinton
Dan Lasater
Bill McCuen
Dan Harmon
Roger Tamraz (Lebanon by default)
Peter Lee
Harold Worden
William McCord (head of Lasater & Co.)
Jack Williams, Tyson lobbyist
Archie Schaefer, Tyson spokesman
Mark Cambiano (plea bargain: drop drug money to DNC for guilty plea on bank crime)
The Robert Mondavi Corporation
Richard Douglas - additional count of lying to FBI
IBM East Europe/Asia Ltd. (export of computers to a top-secret Russian nuclear weapons lab)
Johnnie Chung

 

AP 12/18/98 Michael Sniffen ".A Miami computer company will pay a $1 million fine and one of its executives will plead guilty to federal charges stemming from contributions to President Clinton's re- election and to other Democratic campaigns, the Justice Department says. Future Tech International Inc. and its chief financial officer, Juan C. Ortiz, both signed agreements to plead guilty that were filed in U.S. District Court in Washington on Thursday."

CNN 1/4/99 Terry Frieden ".A Florida businessman involved in a scheme to funnel illegal contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore re-election campaign will plead guilty in federal court in Washington Tuesday. The plea by Juan Ortiz, chief financial officer of Future Tech International (FTI), comes three weeks after the Justice Department announced Ortiz had reached an agreement with federal prosecutors. Government officials say Ortiz will plead guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman to charges of serving as a conduit for illegal contributions and reimbursing eight others who provided similar contributions."

AP 3/25/99 Kelly Kissel Whitewater figure David Hale was found guilty Thursday of putting $150,000 into his insurance company's bank account to show it was financially stable – "

 

Robert S Lee
Howard Glicken
Yogesh Gandhi
Trisha Lum


Washington Post 4/13/99 Bill Miller Barbara Vobejda Freeper Rodger Schultz "...Nolanda S. Hill, a former business partner of the late commerce secretary Ronald H. Brown, was given a four-month jail sentence yesterday for failing to report roughly $140,000 in income on her federal tax returns...."

Sacramento Bee 4/26/99 "...A businessman has pleaded guilty to violating federal elections laws by giving the Democratic National Committee $150,000 drawn from a South Korean corporation. Robert Lee, 49, was the 16th person charged in a Justice Department investigation of campaign financing in the 1996 election. He had agreed to a plea agreement in early April, Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel J. O'Brien said...."

5/27/99 AP "....A former county GOP chairman pleaded guilty today to violating campaign finance law by illegally funneling $11,000 to Democratic U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli. Berek Paul Don, 51, pleaded guilty to election law violation, mail fraud and tax evasion. He could get up to five years in prison and hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines when sentenced Aug. 19. Don, a lawyer, was Bergen County GOP chairman during the 1996 election. He said he cashed an $11,000 check from political donor David Chang, who had asked him to get the money into Torricelli's campaign fund, and solicited others to make donations with the understanding that they would be reimbursed...."

Kevin McNulty
Marc Nardone
Webster Hubbell
John Huang

Philadelphia Criminal Court 7/1/99 Physicist "...Brief report: Teamsters Kevin McNulty and Marc Nardone have plead GUILTY to all counts stemming from the beatings of anti-Clinton protestors Don and Teri Adams on October 2nd at City Hall in Philadelphia. Sentencing is to take place on August 13th, at which point we will learn how well justice has been served..."

New York Times 7/1/99 William Safire "...Two men who admitted corrupting our politics during the Clinton years have copped their guilty pleas and are cheerfully walking free -- without having to implicate any higher-ups. In Webster Hubbell's case, the crony and serial felon the Clintons appointed to run their Justice Department in 1993 triumphed over the Independent Counsel because Ken Starr was sure he could not get a jury to convict Hubbell, and he wants to close up shop as fast as he can.... Sherburne called [the President's personal attorney, David] Kendall. Could he ask the President whether he knew about any payment to Hubbell from Riady's Lippo Group? Did Clinton instruct anybody to help Hubbell? "Kendall said he would ask. . . . He got back in touch with Sherburne later. 'I've checked it out,' he said convincingly. 'It's not a problem.' " But then Clinton told a news conference, "I didn't personally know anything about it until I read about it in the press." "She called Kendall to remind him," writes Woodward, ". . . she had asked Kendall to check it out. Kendall said he recalled." She asks: " 'but how could that be true given the conversation we had?' Kendall reacted angrily, suggesting that there was some disconnect. . . . Sherburne thought that Kendall was one more person who didn't tell her the full story." And so, with no White House tapes and with Hubbell's zipped lip, Starr was unable to unearth the full story. But what could John Huang, the Riady employee placed in the Commerce Department and later as D.N.C. fund-raiser, tell us about the Clinton-Hubbell-Riady hush-money connection? ..."

New York Times 7/1/99 William Safire "...That's where the second walk comes in. Despite the strong protests of F.B.I. Director Louis Freeh and prosecutor Charles La Bella, Attorney General Janet Reno has kept tight political control over the carefully botched Chinagate investigation. This month, Reno Justice announced that John Huang, who raised millions in Asian money for Clinton that had to be returned, will plead guilty to raising just $7,500 illegally. His recommended sentence: a year's probation and a small fine. In return for this slap on the wrist, will he reveal what he knows about the Hubbell money; or what transpired in the Sept. 13, 1995, Oval Office meeting with Clinton and Riady, or why he got regular C.I.A. briefings and called former Lippo associates? Don't hold your breath. Justice's walk-don't-talk prosecutors have interviewed him extensively, they tell the court, but we will never see those transcripts...."

 

Office of Independent Council Donald C. Smaltz 7/21/98 "The Robert Mondavi Corporation, a Napa Valley, California producer, importer and distributor of premium table wines paid $100,000 to the United States in settlement of a civil tort and conflict of interest action brought today by the Office of Independent Counsel for giving six bottles of wine valued at $187 to or for the benefit of former Secretary of Agriculture Michael Espy in 1993 and dinner to and for the benefit of Espy and his girlfriend valued at $207 in 1994. Mondavi gave the gratuity while there were matters that company officials wished to discuss with or were within the jurisdiction of Secretary Espy. As part of its settlement, Mondavi agreed to spend at least $30,000 for a public education program to educate those in the wine industry and other California business leaders about corporate compliance programs and the bribery, gratuity and campaign finance laws. Mr. Smaltz stated: The management of Mondavi was quick to recognize the misdeeds of one of its senior officials and promptly accepted responsibility for his actions. From the inception of the investigation into the illegal gratuities, Mondavi has cooperated fully by making documents and witnesses available to this Office's investigators and lawyers.As part of the Settlement Agreement, the government agreed not to bring charges against any Mondavi employee who may have been involved in this matter.."

AP 7/7/99 "…A lawyer who helped make former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker a multimillionaire in a bankruptcy scam had his community service sentence cut in half Wednesday. John Haley, a former co-defendant with Tucker in a tax-avoidance case, had also requested that his travel restrictions be eased, but the judge reserved judgment on that issue. Haley pleaded guilty in February 1998 to a misdemeanor for his role as Tucker's lawyer in a $13 million cable television deal in the 1980s. Government prosecutors claimed Tucker, Haley and a third person set up a sham bankruptcy to avoid taxes…."

Associated Press 7/23/99 Janelle Carter "...A federal appeals court today reinstated the conviction of a Tyson Foods Inc. executive who had been found guilty of providing illegal gifts to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy. The ruling sends the case of Archie Schaffer III back for sentencing. A lower court had overturned the jury's guilty verdict. "We find sufficient evidence in the record from which a reasonable juror could have concluded that Schaffer violated the Meat Inspection Act,'' the court wrote in the 26-page decision..... U.S. District Judge James Robertson in September overturned Schaffer's June 26, 1998, conviction....."

Inland Valley DAILY BULLETIN 7/22/99 Todd Richmond "...A statewide investigation of voter registration bounty hunters has netted a woman who turned in more than 60 bogus cards and uncovered evidence that a Democratic registration drive may have submitted as many as 9,000 faulty cards. Kathy Lemus of San Bernardino pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of registering a ficitious person and one count of perjury, both felonies.She was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday....Lemus is the second voter registration bounty hunter to be prosecuted since the November 1998 election;Derrell Whitfield pleaded guilty to perjury earlier this year after he submitted 12 fake voter registration cards in Vallejo. Both worked for the California Voter Registration Project, which centers on drumming up Democratic votes, said Alfie Charles, spokesman for Secretary of State Bill Jones. CVRP has come under intense state scrutiny after only 4,500 names on the 13,000 cards its workers returned proved eligible to vote....."

AP 7/28/99 Laurie Asseo "...Fine print in presidential friend Webster Hubbell's agreement with prosecutor Kenneth Starr is giving Hubbell a shot at erasing his guilty plea to a misdemeanor tax charge. Starr is saddled with an appeals court ruling that makes his tax case against Hubbell hard to prove. Under the agreement with Hubbell, Starr needs to persuade the Supreme Court to overturn that ruling for the guilty plea to remain in place. This week, Starr asked the high court to hear his appeal and give him a chance to preserve Hubbell's guilty plea. If the court denies review or rules against Starr, he has agreed to seek dismissal of Hubbell's June 30 plea to the tax charge...."

INDICTMENTS AND TARGETS


Ron Brown (indictment was pending at time of death)
Herby Branscum
Robert Hill
Mike Espy (Acquitted)
Henry Cisneros
Charlie Trie
Nolanda Hill
Bruce Babbitt
Ron Carey
Monica Lewinsky
Hillary Clinton
Bill Clinton
Roger Tamraz (France)
Alexis Herman
William W. Hamilton, Jr. (Teamsters)
Carmen Lunetta
Susan McDougal (new charges Whitewater)
Susan McDougal (Mehta) (Acquitted)
Mayor Richard M. Daley
John and Patti Garamendi
Calvin Grigsby
Neal Harrington
CATIC, the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Company
Don Tyson
James Nicholson
Haley Barbour
Maria Hsia (already indicted for illegal campaign contributions, now also federal income tax charges.)
Howard Glicken - Indicted Campaign Contributions
Pauline Kanchanalak (24 counts foreign contributions to DNC, etc.)
Duangnet "Georgie" Kronenberg (with Kanchanalak)
Mark B. Jimenez (17 counts illegal contributions to Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign and other Democrats)
Franklin L. Haney - 44 counts illegal campaign donations (.also accused of conspiring to make illegal contributions to the campaign of former Tennessee Sen. James Sasser, who is now the Clinton administration's ambassador to China) - Acquitted
Webster Hubbell 15 felony counts, re: lying and fraud in federal banking regulator's investigations - Convicted

 

USA Today 11/30/98 Paul Leavitt ".A federal grand jury is about to indict Julie Hiatt Steele, who contradicted accusations that President Clinton groped White House volunteer Kathleen Willey in the Oval Office in 1993, Time reports. The magazine says independent counsel Ken Starr told Steele's lawyer of the pending indictment, which is expected to accuse Steele of perjury. Steele, who initially said Willey had told her of the incident when it happened, later testified that Willey hadn't told her but asked her to lie to a reporter by saying Willey had told her. Prosecutors reportedly are investigating whether White House officials conspired to discredit Willey.."

Abe Hirshfeld (offered Paula Jones $1 million to drop Clinton suit) - attempted murder, former business partner

AP 12/17/98 ".Hudson Foods Inc. and two employees were charged with lying to regulators about the quantity of meat that might have been tainted in what eventually became the nation's largest beef recall. The indictment, handed down in Omaha and released Wednesday, accuses the Arkansas-based company, its Columbus plant manager and a quality control official each with one count of conspiracy to provide false information to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.."

AP 1/8/99 John Solomon ".A grand jury investigating Kathleen Willey's allegation of an unwanted sexual advance by President Clinton indicted one of her friends Thursday on charges of obstructing justice and lying when she cast doubt on Mrs. Willey's story. Julie Hiatt Steele of Richmond, Va., was charged with three counts of obstruction of justice and one count of false statements in an indictment brought by Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. Among other things, the indictment accused Ms. Steele of filing a false affidavit in the Paula Jones litigation. The president's lawyers had used Ms. Steele's testimony in an effort to cast doubt on the credibility of Mrs. Willey, a former White House volunteer who alleges Clinton made an unwanted sexual advance toward her in the Oval Office in 1993..But Starr alleged that the affidavit and Ms. Steele's subsequent testimony before two federal grand juries were false. Ms. Steele was told about the advance by Mrs. Willey and repeated the information to her friends, Starr charged. Prosecutors also contend that Ms. Steele lied to FBI agents working for Starr and ``attempted in the Eastern District of Virginia to influence the testimony of one or more witnesses in the grand jury investigation.'' ."

AP 1/12/99 Pete Yost ".Presidential friend Webster Hubbell is seeking dismissal of a new indictment by prosecutor Kenneth Starr, arguing that the case cannot be brought because of a 1994 deal prosecutors struck with him. The former associate attorney general is accused in a 15-count grand jury indictment of covering up his and Hillary Rodham Clinton's roles in a fraud-riddled Arkansas land development called Castle Grande. His lawyers said in court papers this week that six of the charges against him are invalid because of a four- year-old plea bargaining agreement in which Hubbell admitted defrauding his former law firm and its clients of at least $394,000.."

Reuters 1/26/99 ".A U.S. federal appeals court gave independent counsel Kenneth Starr a victory Tuesday, reinstating tax evasion charges against Webster Hubbell, a longtime friend of President Clinton and the first lady..."

MSNBC 1/29/99 Freeper Mancini ".Keith Watters (sp?) told John Siegenthaler that he knows for a fact there are sealed indictmentS to be handed down by Starr once this trial is over. He looked very somber.."

AP 2/5/99 Linda Deutsch ".Two former and one current member of Kenneth Starr's prosecutorial team insisted they did not leak the story of the independent counsel's plan to indict President Clinton after impeachment hearings. The group was silent when asked if there is a sealed indictment against the president.. Immergut, who served with Starr for four months in 1998, said when she arrived there was ``a siege mentality which emanated from the White House attitude toward Ken Starr. ... We were so concerned with leaks. We only had each other.''. As for the explicit sexual detail contained in Starr's report, Bienert said, ``For my taste, I would like to have seen less detail.'' But he blamed President Clinton for putting at issue the definition of what is sex. ``It forced the office to get into details,'' he said. Levenson's final question -- ``Is there a sealed indictment?'' -- elicited only silence from all members of the panel.."

AP 2/22/99 Philip Brasher "...U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth issued the contempt order, saying Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt failed to produce documents related to a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Indian trust funds. The secretaries and Assistant Interior Secretary Kevin Gover were ordered to pay legal fees and other expenses that resulted from their delay in complying with Lamberth's November 1996 order to produce documents...."

Daily Republican 2/22/99 Mike Rathco Freeper hope "...The Clinton administration is in federal court again, this week. This time, a federal judge has filed 'contempt' charges against two Clinton administration Cabinet secretaries who are accused of orchestrating a refusal to comply with a federal subpoena for government records pertaining to records of the disposition of as much as $2 billion in in unaccounted for Indian trust funds................ "The court is deeply disappointed that any litigant would fail to obey orders for production of documents, and then conceal and cover up that disobedience with outright false statements that the court then relied upon,'' the judge wrote. "But when that litigant is the federal government, the misconduct is even more troubling."..."

Antonio Pan

AP 4/16/99 "...A businessman indicted on 17 counts of making illegal contributions to the campaigns of President Clinton and others faces more charges in an indictment announced Friday. An indictment issued in Washington in September accused Mark B. Jimenez of illegally giving candidates nearly $40,000. Those charges were incorporated into Thursday's indictment, which also accuses him of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud. Jimenez was Florida's largest donor to the national Democratic Party in 1996. Jimenez, a Philippine national, fled in December and is believed to be in that country. The Department of Justice said it would seek his extradition...."

Washington Post 7/2/99 Bill Miller "...Tennessee financier Franklin L. Haney, a longtime friend of Vice President Gore's family, was acquitted by a jury yesterday of 42 charges accusing him of violating campaign contribution laws.....Haney's defense lawyers suggested in court that Attorney General Janet Reno had tagged him to be the fall guy for the fund-raising excesses of the 1996 campaign....."

 

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE 7/28/99 Linda Sattler "..."An investigation into whether a conservative group may have paid Whitewater witness David Hale to influence his testimony has ended in a decision that "no prosecution be initiated." That's what special counsel Michael E. Shaheen Jr. wrote in a letter faxed Tuesday to Hale's Little Rock attorney, David Bowden.... "

OTHER CRIMINAL/TERRORIST ASSOCIATES


Jorge Cabrera
Dan Lasater (Pardon by Gov. Clinton)
Roger Clinton (half brother Pardon by Gov. Clinton)
Arthur Coia
Wang Jun
Gerry Adams
Yassar Arafat
Grigori Loutchansky, head of Russian/Austrian joint venture Nordex
Communist revolutionary fronts in Latin America, Africa, Middle East (1982+ Hillary Clinton, New World Foundation philanthropies)

 

WorldNetDaily Charles Smith 8/4/98 ".Another scandal revealed by the new documents from the files of Ron Brown shows that Roger Tamraz was inside the Clinton administration as early as 1994 -- two years before he met Bill Clinton in the White House. Tamraz, a Lebanese oil financier, was then wanted by Interpol for embezzling nearly $80 million dollars from a middle eastern bank. Tamraz would later give over $300,000 to the DNC via his links to the Clinton administration. In 1994 Tamraz was authorized by Bill Clinton to travel with Ron Brown on the Presidential Business development mission to Russia. Newly declassified documents show that administration officials arranged a series of meetings between Tamraz and Russian energy officials from the GAZPROM bureau. The document, a unclassified March 1994 telegram to U.S. Commerce representatives in Russia, orders them to arrange meetings between Tamraz and the Russian First Deputy Minister of Fuels and Energy..Another Brown document for the Russian trip, dated February 1994, lists Tamraz along with CEO's from Tenneco, Texaco, ARCO, Enron, Conoco, AT&T, Motorola, and Silicon Graphics. ."

Weekly Standard 8/31/98 Eugene Methyin "July 24, 1996, in the historic mahogany-paneled hearing room where grim-faced congressmen once considered the impeachment of President Nixon, chairman Bill McCollum of the House Crime Subcommittee gaveled for order. "There will be no photographs permitted of this witness," the Florida Republican instructed. A hood over his head, 50-year-old Ronald M. Fino was led to the witness chair, a screen protecting him from spectators' view. For 15 years, Fino was business manager of the Laborers' International Union of North America Local 210 in Buffalo, N.Y., and for eight years, one of the union's national officials. "During this time, I witnessed the gripping control of the union and its membership by La Cosa Nostra, and the defilement of its workers' dues and benefit funds," he testified. For all those years, Fino was also an undercover informant for the FBI. In more than 4,000 meetings with FBI agents, he detailed the mob's secret "shadow government" within the union, and how it reached into the Laborers' Washington headquarters just two blocks from the White House..The Laborers, under president Arthur A. Coia, had managed to snuggle up embarrassingly closely to the Clinton administration. Even before Bill Clinton took office, the Laborers made a $ 100,000 loan to his inaugural committee. Over the next four years, the union and its political action committee gave various Democratic groups and candidates $ 4.8 million. Harold Ickes, Clinton's first-term deputy chief of staff, was a New York labor lawyer whose clients included the Laborers, its "education trust fund," and its New York- New Jersey political action committee. Coia was a regular White House visitor. He was invited to a state dinner for the Japanese emperor, to join the president in greeting the pope in Denver, and to fly with Clinton on Air Force One to Rhode Island and Haiti. The House Crime Subcommittee documented more than 120 contacts in three years between Coia and the Clinton White House, including cash contributions, personal letters, and social-political invitations. The most important, for Coia, was a meeting in the Oval Office with President Clinton and Ickes on October 21, 1994. The White House had just asked the FBI for a "name check" preparatory to naming Coia to a prestigious presidential commission. The FBI's response was stark: "Coia is a criminal associate of the New England Patriarca organized crime family." Moreover, the Justice Department advised that its racket-busters were going to file a suit "within the next several weeks" that "will accuse Coia of being a puppet of the LCN [La Cosa Nostra]." Associate deputy attorney general David Margolis, an organized-crime specialist, repeatedly telephoned warnings to the White House about Coia. Nonetheless, in the Oval Office President Clinton presented Coia with a Callaway "Divine Nine" golf club and listened to Coia's complaints about the "low-level negative response" his union was getting to applications for federal job-training grants. The president assigned Ickes to look after Coia's concerns. Altogether, in the four fiscal years 1994-1997 after Clinton took office, the Laborers received $ 50.5 million in federal grants. The day after the Oval Office meeting, Coia wrote a check for $ 50,000 as a personal "soft money" contribution to the Democratic National Committee. He also gave Clinton a hand-crafted golf club bearing the presidential seal. .Arthur A. Coia today remains president of the Laborers' International Union of North America thanks to an unprecedented bargain he struck with the Justice Department. Two weeks after his 1994 Oval Office meeting with Clinton and Ickes, Justice Department racket-busters delivered to the union a draft racketeering complaint, relying heavily on Fino's testimony. Then strange things happened - - events that are the subject of a House Judiciary Committee investigation.. The union was allowed to undertake its own house-cleaning, under Justice Department oversight.. As Coia's hand-picked cleanup man, Luskin from the start seemed to drag his feet. More than a year elapsed before he prosecuted Fino's Local 210 in Buffalo, one of the country's most notorious mob-owned locals. He waited two-and-a-half years to seek a trusteeship over the equally corrupt Chicago district council, whose top officers -- all of them gangsters or mob associates -- oversaw 21 Laborers locals, 19,000 union members, and $ 1.5 billion in health and pension funds. Indeed, Luskin did not secure this trusteeship until February 9, 1998, two days before the original three-year term of the Justice Department's oversight agreement expired. Justice and the union agreed to a belated one-year extension. . Ron Fino and other critics complain that Coia has survived for nearly four years by adopting a shrewd damage-control strategy, playing the public role of reformer while moving chiefly against his rivals in the "shadow government" and ignoring the mob overlords in his Northeast home base. Indeed, federal informants report that the Genovese family is now in complete control of the union. Last November, when the three-year oversight agreement was about to expire and the Justice Department threatened to take over the union, Luskin moved finally to oust Coia. The charges: Coia "knowingly associated" with Mafia members and permitted them to influence the union, breaching his constitutional and fiduciary duties. Coia also "improperly accepted benefits" from a union service provider. .Meantime, the Justice Department's effort to cleanse the Laborers Union of the brutal shadow government Ron Fino so courageously exposed drags on. A recent issue of Hard Hat Construction Magazine paid him well-deserved tribute: "Unlike most mob informants, Fino volunteered. He was not trying to turn in mob associates in exchange for a lighter prison sentence, and he was not trying to get rich. He tried to do the right thing, and he has paid the price. He lost his good [union] job, he lost his family, and the Buffalo Cosa Nostra put a price on his head. He lives on the run, while many of the mobsters he incriminated are still leading the plush life." Clinton said in a statement released during his trip to Russia that Ickes "has been a trusted adviser and a dedicated public servant."."

60 Minutes 12/6/98 Freeper Fulbright reports ".If Time magazine called him "the most pernicious unindicted criminal in the world," and the U.S. State Department also believed he was "evil", how did Grigori Loutchansky get to speak to President Clinton at a DNC fund raiser? "60 Minutes" aired this remarkable piece tonight. Former CIA director Wollsey was interviewed and said for a President to have met with this individual showed very poor judgement. Loutchansksy was given a message to deliver to former Ukranian Prime Minister Leonid Kravchuck by Clinton concerning arms trading. Rep. Gerald Solomon was interviewed and said that for a person with Loutchansky's background to be given a diplomatic message to deliver is the most incredible thing he has heard of in his 31 years in Congress. .Ed Timperlake was on the 60 Minutes piece--said he feared for his life because of Loutchansky."

NY Post 12/12/98 Andy Geller ".Abu Abbas, cruel mastermind of the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, has been invited to hear President Clinton address the Palestinian National Council on Monday. But an aide to the former Palestinian guerrila leader said he probably won't show. The United States had sought Abbas for years in the killing of New York tourist Leon Klinghoffer, who was murdered when the Italian liner was hijacked by members of Abbas' guerrilla band in 1985. The 69-year-old wheelchairbound Klinghoffer was shot dead and then dumped overboard. Abbas is a member of the council, the top Palestinian decision-making body. His aide said Abbas was in Iraq on business.." Freeper mass55th adds ".And they bitch because Bob Barr accepted an invitation from a fellow Congressman and addressed an ALLEGED white supremacy group? After drug dealers and arms traffickers visiting the first felon in the White House, and his being received in Tiananmen Square in Communist China, why would it surprise us that Bill Clinton may be rubbing elbows with a wanted terrorist?."

The Weekly Standard 8/31/98 Eugene Methvin ". For 15 years, Fino was business manager of the Laborers' International Union of North America Local 210 in Buffalo, N.Y., and for eight years, one of the union's national officials. "During this time, I witnessed the gripping control of the union and its membership by La Cosa Nostra, and the defilement of its workers' dues and benefit funds," he testified. For all those years, Fino was also an undercover informant for the FBI. In more than 4,000 meetings with FBI agents, he detailed the mob's secret "shadow government" within the union, and how it reached into the Laborers' Washington headquarters just two blocks from the White House. Fino's testimony struck at the heart of an illicit alliance in which a Mafia-dominated union provided multimillion-dollar campaign contributions and Justice Department racket-busters were shackled. The House subcommittee had confidential information that federal prosecutors had been thwarted in their plan to take over and clean up the union. But subcommittee Democrats blocked subpoenas to compel testimony from witnesses who might have revealed the fix. Instead they heaped ridicule on the witness. "Mr. Fino, do you believe space aliens are linked to the mob?" mocked New York's Charles Schumer.."

Ether Zone Online 11/1/98 Bob Mementeller ". In 1995 the White House host a major drug dealer at it's Christmas party, Mobster Jorge Cabrera. Cabrera gave $20,000 to the DNC. Besides being photographed in front of the White House Christmas tree with Hillary, Cabrera was photographed with Al Gore at a Miami fund-raiser. The Clinton administration initially attempted to conceal the photo by arguing that a publicity shot with the Vice President is covered by the Privacy Act. Cabrera was indicted in 1983 by a federal grand jury, on racketing and drug charges. In 1988, he was accused of managing a continuing narcotics operation. He pleaded guilty to lesser charges and served 54 months on prison. After his visit to the White House, Cabrera would be sentenced to 19 years in prison for transporting 6,000 pounds of cocaine into the US. The Secret Service says letting him come to the White House was okay because he posed no threat to the President, we can't imagine why? ."

Insight Magazine Jamie Dettmer and Timothy Maier ".Mari Carmen Aponte, who was handpicked by President Clinton to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic, has withdrawn her name from consideration after reports she was recruited to be a Cuban spy. According to a confidential intelligence memo delivered to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms of North Carolina, first published by Insight several months ago, Aponte allegedly cohabited with an agent of the Cuban intelligence service, known as DGI. The man, who was not named in the memo, later was identified in followup press reports as Roberto Tamayo. In October, eight months after Insight's exclusive story concerning White House security lapses and Aponte's relationship with the suspected spy (see "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" March 23, 1998) the former member of Clinton's transition team quietly stepped aside. It was only earlier this month that news emerged about her withdrawal. .. Nonetheless, Aponte subsequently was provided a top-secret clearance at the State Department despite serious objections from career officials. Prominent in the minority legal community, Aponte has been a contributor to various Democratic Party campaigns and has given $21,400 to the Democrats, including $1,000 to Clinton's election coffers. The president has had nothing but praise for Aponte, a native of Puerto Rico, and may appoint her to a post at the Federal Housing Finance Board, a regulatory agency, according to the Washington Times. .."

Washington Weekly 2/15/99 Marvin Lee "."I am under a gag order not to speak to the press," says Matthew King of the San Francisco office of the U.S. Bureau of Customs. King was a participant in the "Dragon Fire" sting operation that netted Chinese gun smugglers in 1996. In 1997, before the gag order was issued, King managed to explain to reporters for Vanity Fair that the ultimate goal of the Dragon Fire operation was to arrest top Chinese Communist officials such as Wang Jun, who were engaged in massive weapons smuggling to the United States:.. But for some reason, the Dragon Fire sting operation was leaked to the press before Matthew King and his BATF colleague Dick Stoltz managed to get to the top of the military industrial complex of Communist China and nail Wang Jun and his lieutenants. What King and Stoltz did not know at the time, but was later revealed through the Chinagate investigation, is that Wang Jun visited the White House just one month before the press leak that aborted the Dragon Fire sting operation. The visit had been arranged by Chinese agent and Clinton friend Charlie Trie and Clinton friend Ernest Green. Trie has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Clinton and his legal defense fund on behalf of the People's Republic of China, and Ernest Green's wife, on the day of Wang Jun's White House visit, donated $50,000 to the Democratic National Committee [1].."

WorldNet Daily 2/23/99 Charles Smith "...The direct link between Beijing espionage, millionaire drug lords and Bill Clinton is Webster Hubbell. In 1993, Webster Hubbell was personally charged by Janet Reno with a top-secret project to tap every phone in America. Hubbell's initial task was to tap every phone in the government, starting with the Drug Enforcement Administration. This month, the Department of Justice was forced by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to release the Hubbell files. According to Justice, many of the Hubbell documents are being withheld for "national security" reasons. In addition, 15 Hubbell documents remain in the hands of the FBI and National Security Agency to be reviewed prior to any release. According to the NSA, FBI and the National Security Council, the Hubbell files are so sensitive that to release them today could result in charges of treason and the death penalty. The newly released Hubbell files are so secret that even the code word classification level was blacked out for "national security" reasons. Furthermore, Justice was forced to admit that a 1993 letter from AT&T CEO Robert Allen to Hubbell was "destroyed pursuant to the records destruction schedules." This in itself is highly suspect because this author has obtained documents dating as far back as 1983 that were returned by the NSC -- over 10 years prior to the "destroyed" AT&T Hubbell letter. One document released by Justice is a March 1993 memo from Stephen Colgate, assistant attorney general for administration. Colgate's memo to Hubbell details the Clinton officials charged with bugging every phone in America. According to the Colgate memo, Vice President Al Gore was to chair a meeting with Hubbell, Reno, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and Leon Panetta. The meeting was on the "AT&T Telephone Security Device." In 1992, AT&T had developed secure telephones the U.S. government could not tap. The Clinton administration secretly contracted with AT&T to keep the phones off the American market. According to Colgate, the secure phones were simply too dangerous for American citizens.... Part of the secret project included re-fitting the purchased AT&T phones with a new chip called "Clipper" developed by the NSA at Fort Meade, Maryland. This chip contained a secret "exploitable" feature allowing the government to tap the phone conversation with a special back door key. ..."

WorldNetDaily 5/14/98 Joseph Farah "…Clinton administration this week announced a comprehensive plan to target the growing power of sophisticated international organized crime syndicates. It's called the International Crime Control Strategy, which identifies the major global threats to the United States as drug trafficking, acquisition or sale of weapons of mass destruction by criminal, the transfer of sensitive U.S. technology to rogue foreign states and trafficking in women and children. Drug trafficking? Transfer of sensitive technology? Trafficking in women? These are certainly areas in which the Clinton administration has expertise…."

 

WorldNetDaily 3/16/99 Charles Smith "… In August 1994, Mr. Wu accompanied Ron Brown to China and Hong Kong. Mr. Wu traveled with several major donors to the DNC, including Bernard Schwartz CEO of Loral, Sanford Robertson CEO of Robertson & Stephens and Edwin Lupenberger, CEO of Entergy Corp. Wu was invited to various special events, including a post Hong Kong dinner and Democratic fund-raiser. K.S. Wu, according to his official Commerce Dept. information sheet, was a very busy man. Wu, according to the Commerce profile, was a graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University and did graduate work at Yale. In 1994, Wu was chairman of Pacific Century Group, a member of the Board of Directors of the Singapore Fund, the Japan Equity Fund, the China Direct Fund and the Sinung Corporation. Wu was also a board member of the Georgetown University Asian Law Program and the Enprotech Corporation. Wu traveled to China in August of 1994 with a self-described "close" friend, West Virginia Governor Gaston Caperton. In 1996, Caperton described K.S. Wu as a "close friend" and a "trusted advisor to Senator Rockefeller". Today, none dare speak of Mr. Wu. Former Governor Caperton, Democrat Senator Rockefeller both refused to comment on the late K.S. Wu. All questions to the Senator's office on K.S. Wu have been greeted by with the same answer, a short and angry "no comment"…. Lupenberger and Wu were given White House information sheets on every major member of the communist Chinese leadership. The White House bios included data on the most important Chinese communist citizens from President Jiang Zemin to the Mayor of Shanghai. The only civilian included by the White House was Li Ka-Shing, Director of CITIC. Li Ka-Shing owns the vast shipping enterprise, Hutchison Whampoa, Ltd. Li works closely with the official PRC shipping carrier, COSCO. Li and COSCO own both ends of the Panama canal. Li and COSCO tried to buy the former Navy port at Long Beach. Li financed several satellite deals between Hughes and China Hong Kong Satellite (CHINASAT), a company half owned by the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA). Li Ka-Shing and the Chinese Navy nearly obtained four huge roll-on/roll-off container ships, financed by the American taxpayers…. Wu, according to the official Commerce Department information sheet, was chairman of Pacific Century Group, an investment firm working to finance electric power plants inside China with U.S. money…. Pacific Century, according to sources on Capitol Hill, is actually a front company part owned by Li Ka-Shing and Macau prostitution drug-lord Ng Lapseng. The U.S. based business run by Wu was actually then owned by Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing and a major organized crime boss. The Ng family dominance of far east heroin, and oriental female love slaves in California, Oregon and Washington is well known to law enforcement at both the state and Federal levels. In fact, the CEO of Pacific Century, K.S. "Wu" was related to Ng. Ng, also a major donor to the DNC, often introduced himself as "Mister Wu". K.S. Wu was a cousin of Ng Lapseng. Crimelord Ng actually entered the inner-Clinton circle by introducing large amounts of cash to the DNC. Proof of this can be seen in a wonderful photograph of Mr. Ng with Mr. and Mrs. Clinton at a DNC fundraising event….. The 1994 trade trip to China included a Lippo backed power project in China with an Arkansas-based company called Entergy Corp. Former DNC fund-raisers Ira Sockowitz and John Huang worked at the Commerce Department and were charged by Brown to "vet" or check out the Entergy project in China…. Lupenberger and Wu attended the trade mission to China on the personal authority of President Clinton. Lupenberger also personally donated over $80,000 to Democratic candidates prior to the flight. Wu brought investors eager to finance the operation, including money laundered from his family holdings in Macau. Commerce documents show Edwin Lupenberger, Maria Haley, then head of the Export Import Bank, K.S. Wu, and Li Ka-Shing all met Madam Wu Yi. Madam Wu was then the Minister of China's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC). The investments made through Pacific Century were to back a joint Lippo/Chinese "soft coal" power plant. John Huang, Ron Brown, Edwin Lupenberger, Senator Rockefeller and K.S. Wu all helped to obtain the financing from U.S. citizens and taxpayers to build "soft" coal fired plants in the far east. Coal fired plants that cannot burn American coal. The sole source of U.S. soft coal is the state of Utah. Utah also happens to be the number one state competing with West Virginia on the coal export market. President Clinton declared most of Utah to be off-limits to coal mining without legislation, using a Presidential Executive order. With this single act, Clinton enhanced the standing of Democratic West Virginia and punished Republican dominated Utah…."

 

Washington Weekly 4/5/99 Marvin Lee "...On November 8, 1995, at a presidential luncheon at the "Car Barn" in Georgetown, an unusual constellation of guests were in attendance: Charlie Trie, Ng Lap Seng and Eric Green met Richard Mays and Eric Wynn. Also attending was then-Commerce Secretary Ron Brown who addressed the assembled people as "The Trie Team," and said that "big business helps us everywhere." What is "The Trie Team"? We know from Timperlake & Triplett's book "Year of the Rat" that Trie and Lap Seng are members of the "Four Seasons" Triad gang of Chinese organized crime. We also know that Trie is a long-time friend of Bill Clinton. Another long-time friend of Clinton is Richard Mays, a Little Rock lawyer whose name has appeared in the Whitewater and tainted blood scandals as well as the investigation into the death of White House Deputy Counsel Vince Foster. He is also a fundraiser for Clinton who has repeatedly solicited money from people reported by the Washington Post to be tied to U.S. organized crime: Eric Wynn and Richard Tienken. Mays has also successfully raised campaign contributions from Charlie Trie. The House Government Reform and Oversight Committee during its Campaign Finance investigation obtained a video tape of the Car Barn event in Georgetown. During a recently released deposition of Richard Mays, David A. Kass, Investigative Counsel for the Committee asked about the Car Barn event. Mays did not seem comfortable testifying about the event that was co-chaired by himself and Charlie Trie, and had no explanation for why participants apparently had tried to hide photos from the event showing President Clinton and several top DNC officials socializing with members of U.S. and Chinese organized crime. Mays admitted during the deposition to giving Eric Wynn "free legal advice." Mays left for Africa when the Committee later subpoenaed him to testify during Campaign Finance hearings....What is the link between U.S. and Chinese organized crime? The Car Barn event may be providing the answer. It was a fundraising event. Could it be that U.S. and Chinese organized crime serve as one of the funnels of cash between the Chinese military and the Clinton administration? The Chinese military - Lt. Colonel Liu Chaoying - Johnny Chung - White House channel could not possibly have paid for all the military technology obtained from the Clinton administration by the People's Liberation Army...."

 

House of Representatives 4/15/97 Rep Cunningham "...Some of the donors invited to the White House who participated in events with the President include: Mr. Russ Barakat, a south Florida Democrat party official who, 5 days after attending a White House coffee session in April 1995, was indicted on criminal charges and ultimately convicted of tax evasion. A Florida newspaper was full of the stories about Mr. Barakat's problems with the law before the executive mansion get-together...."

House of Representatives 4/15/97 Rep Cunningham "...Mr. Wang Jun a Chinese businessman and the head of a military-owned arms company, while a part of the United States Government, was out investigating Wang Jun for allegedly smuggling in arms to this country, that is, 2,000 AK-47's. He was with Mr. Clinton at a White House coffee courtesy of Charlie Trie...."

House of Representatives 4/15/97 Rep Cunningham "...Chong Lo, convicted of tax evasion in 1980 under the name of Esther Chu, who was another visitor at the coffee of the White House Clintons, has since been arrested again on 14 charges of falsifying mortgage applications, to which she had pleaded not guilty at the time...."