Chapter Nine: The Candy Rose File

"Ms. Candy, I do want to see the rest of the LUM file... E: me!"

The Candy Rose File

[as posted by "Candy Rose" in the Washington Post Talk Central forum site:THE "CHINA PLAN" on May 19, 1998]

Candy Rose-9:45pm May 18, 1998 EST (#70 of 100)

He's the north end of a south bound skunk

It didn't start in '96, it has been in place for a very long time.

ARKANSAS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: Set up by C. JOSEPH GIROIR,JR. to do business with LIPPO in Indonesia & China.

BILL CLINTON: The most uninformed president in American history. He doesn't know about any of this, he isn't told about anything. The only way he hears about anything going on in the White House, the nation, the world, his circle of friends, his cabinet, his business partners, his business partners, his business dealings and his wife is what he gets from the press at his seldom held press conferences. OR he is the "the" biggest liar to ever walk the face of the earth. Bill was finally forced to admit during a Jan 28 news conference that "mistakes had been made". Of course he was guilty of nothing becasue he didn't know what was going on inside his own house. But by the first of February a White House lacky was forced in front of reporters to tell them that the president had indeed approved a White House Coffee guest list himself. This one included DNC officials, Banking Executives and the Comptroller of the Currency. Big, Big, ethical boo boo.

----Feb. 13th it became known that Clintton's people, if not Clinton himself had solicited donations from the Chinese Embassy. A felony.

HILLARY CLINTON: Wife of the president, former partner of the ROSE LAW FIRM and former board member of Wal-Mart, and the "smarteset woman alive". She managed to secure a full partnership with an old established Arkansas Law firm, who prior to Mrs. Attorney General- soon to be Governor came on board, didn't give partnership unless the attorney had been a prolific member of the firm for decades. But Hillary's resume of 60's radicalism, Watergate research assistant and CHildren's Defense fund groupie was so powerful in its accomplishment that they were instantly moved to capture her (before anyone else did) and bring her into the firm at full partnership. This being simply on her merits as an attorney with absolutely no litigation experience and having nothing what so ever to do with Bill's position at the time, soon to increased position of power.This doesn't even mention her dealings with these people in Castle Grande, Cattle Futures, Travelgate, Whitewater, Madison Guaranty, Rose Law firm and all the other little cuties mommy dearest has participated in.

EAST TIMOR: An occupied territory of Indonesia where roughly one third of the people have been slaughtered by Indonesian troops over the past 20 years. Candidate BILL CLINTON said of East Timor, "I think we have ignored it in ways that are unconscionable." Then during his presidency, Clinton approved more than $470 million in arms sales to the Indonesian regime.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF Mena: this bank, in the tiny town best known by its Contra arms supply, drug running and money-laundering operation, was purchased by MOCHTAR and JAMES RIADY. (We'll get to them in a mo.)

C. JOSEPH GIROIR JR.: ROSE LAW FIRM partner, board member of the WORTHEN BANK and th man who hired HILLARY CLINTON (because her credentials were so stunning). Set up the ARKANSAS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION to do joint ventures with the LIPPO GROUP. Brokered dealings bewtween LIPPO, Tyson Foods, Wal-Mart (remember Hillary was on the board) and Jim Tucker, Arkansas Governor and cable TV franchise operator. Current plans include a $1 billion power plant in China. The backwoods Arkansas airport was used to ship Tyson chickens to Indonesia.

JOHN HUANG: Formerly a LIPPO GROUP executive in Little Rock, later a high Commerce Department official, until recently with the Democratic National Committee. Solicited the contribution of ARIEF WIRIADINATA (the gardener who though virtually penniless was able to donate substancially to the DNC and Clinton/Gore. Also responsible for the Democratic Party fundraiser at the HSI LAI BUDDHIST TEMPLE near LA. (Where Gore thought it was an outreach program and people were just out reaching in their pockets and shoving money in his hands.) Also was vice-chair of the LIPPO BANK until he joined the Commerce Department in 1994. John Huang is at the center of the fundraising crimes. Huang has seen $1.5 million of the $4-5million he raised for the Democrats returned to the donors,( or claimed to be returned to donors...remember, no one has seen any canceled checks or receipts and the DNC is in the hole, strapped for cash. So I don't know how they paid back anyone.) Huang, 46, was born in China, but grew up in Taiwan and attended the University of Connecticut. He became a U.S. citizen in 1976. Before joining the DNC, Huang was a Deputy assistant secretary for trade in the Commerce Department and befoe that he was headed Lippo's U.S. affiliate. Huang is a longtime associate of Bill Clinton's, at times claiming that Clinton sponsored him for his citizenship when it was, in fact, STEPHENS officials. He lies too, a prerequesite for membership into this little mob. Huang also was vice president of the WORTHEN Bank in Little Rock, Ark. Records show that Huang had been a frequent visitor to the White House, although Clinton denied it vehemently until the log records were publicized. He has pressed Clinton on matters related to Indonesia, the power plant, coal, Vietnam, among other things. Huang arranged for a Chinese weapons dealer to attend a White House Coffee, and his reord show he also attended policy meetings at the Chinese Embassy in 1995. John Huang was LIPPO's top American Executive before becoming a high Commerce Department official and then a turbo-charged DNC fund-raiser. Upon leaving the LIPPO group for the greener pastures of the Commerce Dept., Huang received $900,000 from the LIPPO GROUP. Even though officially resigned from Lippo, according to Commerce phone records and a paper trail, Huang kept in close touch with the Riady's and LIPPO. Before the 1992 election, the Riady family and the businesses gave Clinton $225,000. Riady and Huang gave another $100,000 to the first Clinton Inaugural, although Huang's name did not appear anywhere on the Inaugural donor's list. An oversight I am sure.

As a result of Huang's top- secret clearance, there were dozens of intelligence briefings- many of which dealt with China. His phone logs show that he made 70 calls to the Lippo offices in Los Angeles during that time, often on the same day he received classified documents. Amazing coincidence isn't it?

As a fund raiser Huang was a buzz saw. He generated over $5 million in just one year. $450,000 of it from his former employers the LIPPO GROUP. Quite a lot of those donations were illegal and the DNC has said they have returned them...after their existance and questionability was made public.

During the time between 94 and 96 Huang visited the White House 70 times. There are alot of unresolved questions about Huang as well, like how he got a top-level job at the Commerce Department and who arranged for him to switch to the DNC in December of 1995.

It also isn't clear why the Chinese-born Huang got a top-secret clearance six months before he started at Commerce without a standard check of his overseas activities and why he was allowed to keep the clearnace for a year after becoming a DNC official.

FBI Director Louis Freeh has said his agents are investigating whether Huang leaked sensitive government information to the Lippo Group, which he often contacted while a Commerce official.

Candy Rose-9:56pm May 18, 1998 EST (#71 of 100)

He's the north end of a south bound skunk

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WEBSTER HUBBELL: ROSE LAW FIRM partner, went to work for a LIPPO GROUP affiliate after being forced out of the Clinton Adminsitration and before going to jail. He had no experience in Asian trade and worked only a short time putting in few if any actual hands on hours. He was paid a reported $250,000. When he was asked at the Senate hearing by the majority counsel: "I guess the question is really this, it is whether in connection with this representation, you received a large amount of money and that may have had an impact on the degree of cooperation with the Independent Counsel or with us?" Hubbell responded, with lips turned down and a tear in his eye.."that's pretty rotten" and Al D'Amato backed off. Hubbell represented both WORTHEN and JAMES RIADY during the 1980s. HUBBELL testified: "The Lippo Group itself is not my client, but a representative of that group--one of their affiliates-- was a client of mine." yet his pay check was directly from the Riadys. The job, it has since been shown was nothing more than hush money designed to keep Web from talking about all he knew to Ken Starr. Although with the string of dead bodies connected to Clinton of those who knew too much, that alone should have guaranteed Hub's silence.

BERT LANCE: Georgia financier and Jimmy Carter's budget director. Old friend of JACKSON STEPHENS. Deeply embroiled in BCCI scandal. Gutmann reports, as far back as 1977. Investigator Ethan Gutmann reports that MOCHTAR RIADY and James first arrived in this country and started buying up Bert Lance's assets, clearly making a play for the Carter Adminsitration. But their attention was later turned in another direction by JACKSON STEPHENS who introduced them to Bill Clinton.

LIPPO BANK: a California Bank owned by the RIADY family, until 1993 within days of Clinton's Inauguration, when 15% of it was purchased by a front for the Chinese intelligence. That was increased to 50% later in that same year. In 1994, federal regulators, according to the New York Times, found evidence that the bank had violated "laws and/or regulations" and that it needed tighter controls to prevent money laundering. John Huang, who was given top security clearnace without a background check by the FBi or the State Department's Office of Security, was an employee of the Hong Kong Chinese Bank in the early 1980's, and moved to Little Rock in the mid-1980's where he met the Clintons. Huang's unusual access to the White House has been well documented recently, and is discussed further down this page. So now Mochtar and James Riady, the long-time friends and Financial backers of Bill Clinton, find that half of their company is now owned by a company that is a front for the Chinese Military.

---The order against the bank was lifted this March of '96

LIPPO GROUP: Huge Indonesian conglomerate- Worth over $6 billion that seems to have had a long history of ties with Clinton and Bill's friends. Began doing business in Arkansas in 1983 with the help of an SBA loan of $2 million. To get the loan, Lippo named an American-- recently departed from the Carter SBA administration, Vernon Weaver-- to front as chairman of the Little Rock subsidiary. Weaver used then-governor Clinton as a character reference to obtain the SBA money.

HSI LAI BUDDHIST TEMPLE: This is the temple full of monks who all took a vow of poverty. Amazingly enough it was the site chosen by JOUHN HUANG for a major Democratic National Committee fund-raiser. The one Al Gore swore he thought was an outreach meeting, where poverty- stricken nuns and priests shoved money into Algore's hands. According to the Washington Post, "Several people named in official DNC reports as having contributed $2,000 to $5,000 at the fundraiser were listed with addresses at or adjacent to the temple. Both the DNC and Peter D. Kelly, the attorney for the temple said that thsoe donors were monks and other religious personnel at the temple." The temple abess, Tzu Jung, said the temple only provided the site and that monks and nuns "do not have that kind of money." She, however is listed as one of the donors under her other name, Su-Jen Wu. The Wall Street Journal reported that another woman had been approached at the time of the fund-raiser, given $5,000 in small bills and asked to write a check for that amount to the DNC.

---Who is lying? The nun or the politician?

CHING HAI-- Spiritual leader of a Taiwan-based Buddhist sect, Ching Hai urged her followers to contribute to President Clinton's Whitewater legal defense fund after meeting with Clinton associate Charles Yah Li n Trie[Charlie Trie], who is a follower of Ching hai. Of the $600,000 in donations from Ching Hai's followers most were returned becasue they did not meet the fund's guidelines. Returned to whom? If these people had taken a vow of poverty they certainly won't accept 4 to 500,000 dollars. Unless their view of poverty and mine are diametrically opposite, it is impossible that the money came form them in the first place.

MOCHTAR RIADY: An Indonesian billionaire. Indonesia has but 6-10 billionaires, so that tells you how powerful this man is. He is a member of that country's powerful ethnic minority.--Founder and chief executive of the LIPPO GROUP, whose affiliates have donated heavily to the DNC. According to the Wall Street Journal, Oct 16, 1996, he was born in 1929 into a Chinese immigrant family in East Java. MOCHTAR RIADY or Li Wenzheng, his Chinese name--- smuggled medicine and other supplies for the anti-Dutch guerrillas as a young man. After a brief exile in China, he helped build up a small bank owned by his wife's family. But his big break came in the 1970's when Indonesia's foremost Chinese entrepreneur, Soedono Salim(formerly Liem Sioe Liong)a close associate of President Suharto, tapped him to run Mr. Salim's Bank Central Asia. Mochtar Riady got a 15% stake in the bank as part of the deal. The Riady family and businesses have given nearly $1 million to the Democratic Party. Being very close to Suharto on East Timor. He brought $16 million worth of stock in the WORTHEN BANK and installed his son, JAMES RIADY as a director, and was subsequently given a seat on the Board of Directors, as was his son. "In fact, they elected MOCHTAR RIADY chairman of WORTHEN"S executive committee after he bought the large stake in the company." (According to business Investor's Daily) With JACKSON STEPHENS, he bought BCCI's former Hong Kong subsidiary from its liquidators in 1991. Also a major investor in the LIPP GROUP, an Indonesian conglomerate that made a major investment in the Stephens family's WORTHEN BANK of Arkansas. A front for the Chinese Intelligence bought 15% of LIPPO just before the 92 elections and immediately after the elections,(and Clinton Victory) bought 50%. Now Mr. Riady's company is controlled by the Chinese military.

President Clinton met twice with Riady at the White House. The Lippo Group holds interests in insurance, banking, securities, real estate and electronics. Lippo, the Riady's have substancial interests in China: real estate, banking, electronics, currency exchange, retail, electricity, tourism. MOCHTAR RIADY was kept appraised of top level trade meetings and policy changes by Commerce employee JOHN HUANG who is a former employee of Mr. Riady. Accroding to the Los Angeles Times, both Mochtar and son, James have told associates that they were able to get Huang his government position as a result of their political support of the Democrats.

Candy Rose-9:59pm May 18, 1998 EST (#72 of 100)

He's the north end of a south bound skunk

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According to Investigator Ethan Gutmann, NET TV, "as far back as 1977 when MOCHTAR RIADY and his son, James first arrived in this country and started buying up Bert lance's assets, they were clearly making a play for the Carter administration. But their attention was late turned in another direction by JACKSON STEPHENS who introduced them to Bill CLinton." "So the Riady's started investing like mad in Little Rock and in the political career of William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. They got to know Hillary Clinton, Webbster Hubbell, Vince Foster and others in the Clinton circle of power. They bailed Clinton out in the New Hampshire primaries and on all the way through to the White House -- where they put John Huang in a key position in the Commerce Dept." thanks to an expedited top level security clearance courtesy of the Clinton White House. MOCHTAR RIADY and his family members and associates have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Clinton and the Democrats. Earlier in December of 95, Bill Clinton admitted that he received a letter from Riady urging him to "normalize" trade relations with Viet Nam at a time when Riady it's $6.9 billion real estate and investment empire into the country. Riady also asked for renewal of MFN status for China. Clinton signed the MFN status.

---Shortly thereafter, in 1994 over protests from veterans and family members of American soldiers missing in action in the Viet Nam War, Clinton ended the 30-year Vietnam Trade Embargo. Wall Street Journal, October 16, 1996.

JAMES RIADY: MOCHTAR RIADY's son, who became an official of WORTHEN BANK. Came to Little Rock in 1977 to work at the STEPHENS family's investment firm, Stephens, Inc. He said he was sponsored by Bill Clinton although other accounts have Stephens officials inviting him to come as an intern. gave at least $175,000 to the Clinton Inaugural Committee, although not on the originally released list. Now living in Indonesia. JAMES RIADY met personally with President Clinton at the White House(six times, according to administrative aides), meetings initially described as "two" and "social" visits, but late acknowledged as including discussions of policy issues related to Indonesia. White House logs show Riady visited on at least 20 occasions, though administrative officials say most occassions were for briefings, receptions and meetings with other officials. The real total will not be learned until someone other than a Clinton administration official uncover it. Riady met Clinton during a stint with the WORTHEN BANK in Little Rock, Ark. On a trip to Indonesia in 1994, Clinton stopped by a reception in Jakarta given by JAMES RIADY. JAMES RIADY, his afther, MOCHTAR RIADY, CHARLES YAH LIN TRIE, JOHN HUANG, WANG JJUN, Little Rock, Ark. lawyer, JOSEPH GIROIR, an ancient trade firm called China Resources, another Chinese firm called Poly Technologies, and a $12-billion Indonesian conglomerate, LIPPO Group, run by the Riadys. JAMES RIADY and Clinton have been friends for two decades and he lived for many years in Little Rock, where he was prominent in banking and inernational trade. As is Clinton's want, he denies being friends, he claims he was someone he met only once or knew slightly. Even in the face of the video tape in which Clinton introduces him as a long time friend, a letter to the President of Indonesia in which he said he "treasured" Riady's friendship, Bill still insists that he is no such thing. I would agree... Bill is no friend.

---I wonder if the biblical "cock crowinng" is a relevent comparison to make at this point.

JACKSON STEPHENS: was board chairman of WORTHEN during the period when the bank provided BILL CLINTON's 1992 presidential primary campaign with a multi-million dollar line of credit that enabled the Clinton effort to stay afloat. Described at the time by the New York Post as a man who was to "Clinton what BERT LANCE was to candidate Jimmy Carter. " Got to know MOCHTAR RIADY in 1977 when Riady was considering buying BERT LANCE's interest in the National Bank of Georgia. That year, Stephens had "brokered the arrival" of BCCI to this country, and steered BCCI's founder, Hassan, Abedi, to lance--whose bank a BCCI front man--Ghaith Pharaon-- eventually took over. Stephens in 1991 joined MOCHTAR RIADY in the purchase of a BCCI subsidiary in Hong Kong. As I've said in previous sections, Gutmann reports, that in 1977 when JAMES RIADY nd MOCHTAR RIADY first arrived in this country they began buying up Bert lance's assests, clearly making a play for the Carter administration. But finding Carter to be an ethical man, surrounding himself with MOSTLY ethical people it was harder than they planned so another they tied up with Jackson Stephens who introduced them to Bill Clinton. A man we know to be lacking in ethica and having surrounded himself with others of like character. Riady started investing in Little Rock and in William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. They became chummy with Clinton's inner circle and they bailed him out during the New Hampshire primaries and rode his coattails all the way to the White House-- where they called in Clinton's markers and put John Huang in a key position at the Commerce Dept.

ARIEF WIRIADINATA: Came to the US from Indonesia alegedly to study landscape architecture-- although some accounts describe him simply as a gardener. Gave nearly a half million dollars to the Democratic Party. His wife is the daughter of a man who was a key business partner of the RIADY's. WIRIADINATA is the wealthy son-in-law of a RIADY business partner, Arief and SORAYA WIRIANDINATA, formaer permanent U.S. residents with ties to the Lippo Group, who had lived in a Virginia suburb, donated $450,000 to the DNC during 1995 and 1996, but did not file a tax return in 1996.

CHARLES YAH LIN TRIE: A member of the DNC's national finance board of directors, Little Rock business man and friend of Bill Clinton's for 14 years, Trie raised about $100,000 during the 1996 election, $15,000 of which had to be returned. Again, there is no proof that it has been returned. His family has donated $141,500 to Democratic campaigns and his business $70,000 to the DNC since July 1994. He also delivered more than $640,000 in questionable checks and money orders to the Clintons' legal fund, which later were returned. OR alleged to have been returned. Charlie owned te most famous Chinese restaurant in LIttle Rock, Fu Lin's near the capitol, known as the watering hole for local powerbrokers and politicians. These included Clinton and his entourage.

When Clinton was elected president, Trie picked up and moved opening a Washington office for trading with China. The kitchen must prepare you for the trade business. And when you mis your best customer I guess the only thing to do is to close down and follow him, After all one goes where the money is------ Clinton praising him then, denies him now. Trie and Huang raised hundreds of thousands for the 1996 campaign. Trie brought $639,000 to Clinton's legal defense fund for Whitewater problems. Much of it, carried in bags, were money orders in sequential numbers, in different names, but all in the same handwriting. Also, much of it from a religious cult in Taiwan or so the story goes. Clinton put Trie on an Asian trade commission. A year or so ago, Trie arranged for WANG JUN to meet the president at a White House coffee klatch, one of many DNC fund-raisers.

----Wang is a Chinese arms merchant.

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Candy Rose-10:01pm May 18, 1998 EST (#73 of 100)

He's the north end of a south bound skunk

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THE WORTHEN BANK-- has financed Clinton's elections since the 1980's was co-owned by the Lippo Group and Systematics owner JACKSON STEPHENS. JOHN HUANG was vice president, JOSEPH GIROIR was a board member along with JAMES RIADY as the director. MOCHTAR RIADY owned 16million of the banks stock. JACKSON STEPHENS was the Chairman of the Board and his family owned it. "Forget assets," JAMES RIADY said in WORTHEN Banking Corp.'s annual report that year. "What really matters is 'personal contacts and business connections.'" That philosophy has worked well for the Riadys, on eof Asia's most successful business families. While courting world leaders- including President Clinton- they've built their Jakarta-based LIPPO Group into a $6 billion financial empire. But not in Arkansas, two years later, Riady was ousted and the bank was 10 billion in debt. Riady's personal contacts and business connections benefited mostly only Lippo or its affiliates.

In 1984, when WORTHEN's board of directors hired Riady, and gave him and his father, Mochtar, seats on the board, Riady brought in a crew from Jakarta. This crew included pals David Yeh and John Huang.

In 1984, according to proxy reports, WORTHEN, under RIADY's leadership, In gave a $5 million line of credit to Bank of Central Asia, an Indonesian firm partly owned by MOCHTAR RIADY and SEODONO SALIM, a glofing partner of Indonesian Gen. Suharto. The Salim clan accounts for about 5% of the Indonesian economy. Also in 1984 WORTHEN gave a $5 million line of credit to Central Asian Capiatal Corp., a Hong Kong firm partly owned by Mochtar Riady and Salim. Again in 1984, Worthen granted $8 million in loans to United Pacific Trading Co., a LIPPO subsidiary. In 1985, WORTHEN loaned the Riady-owned firm, P.T. Bahana Dharma Utama, $3 million to finance an office building in Indonesia (Built in 1986, it was leased to bank of Central Asia. Salim, Mochtar's business partner and one-time employer, is chairman of BCA) Between 1984 and 1987, James and MOCHTAR RIADY had reduced their combined WORTHEN stock holding from 23% to 15%. By 1988, both Riady's had left the board and sold their WORTHEN shares, losing millions of dollars and leaving WORTHEN in shambles. Also, WORTHEN canned the high-priced Yeh in late 1986 and disolved his Worthen Bank International officially closing off the Riady personal pipeline to Jakarta and Hong Kong. Shortly after the "stinging" Comptroller's report in '86, Worthen's board eased Riady out and replaced him with Curtis Bradbury, a senior executive. Bardbury, who later became chairman and chief executive, got the bank back on its feet and it was sold in 1995. Boatmen's Bancshare of St. Louis paid $580 million for WORTHEN, which had about $1.7 billion in assets at the time.

----Aftre all was said and done, the Riady's had taken WORTHEN for more than $35 million.

RON BROWN---- came to the Clinton cabinet from the DNC, where he became the most successful fund raiser in political history. Among the big donors to the Democratic Party are members of the Riady family, as well as score of corporations, including Energy Corp., a New Orleans energy outfit that also does business in Arkansas. Among Mr. Brown's little army of fundraisers were John Huang, formerly LIPPO's top U.S. executive and Melinda Yee, a less experienced Californian eager to make a name for herself in politics and who is now with Willie Brown, mayor of San Francisco. California's Attorner Genreral is looking into reports of illegal campaign funding and LIPPO is involved. Among the China deals announced by Secretary Brown was a $1 billion power project between Lippo and Energy Corp. (See C. Joseph Giroir Jr)While Lippo already enjoyed close ties within Brown's Commerce Department. Energy also had high-powered help, with lawyers who included former Democratic Rep. Beryl Anthony of Arkansas (whose wife is the sister of the late Vince Foster) and Hunter Johnston, the son of retiring Sen. Bennett Johnston (D. La.). In January 1994, on the personal instructions from Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, Huang was given top-secret security clearance without FBI background checks or the State Department's Office of Security. This is strict requirement for somebody born in a foreign country and it gave Huang to top secret American Intelligence. Shortly after he was given a position in Brown's Commerce dept. Investigators found that by the July 94 China Trip, thanks to Huang, Brown signed the almost $6 billion in deals waiting for him. November 2, 1994 Lippo "requested" the presense of Brown to witness the signings of several agreemenst between American and Indonesian companies, including Protective Life. When Protective Life, the company benefitting most, was asked why LIPPO was so eager for Brown's appearnace at this event, the reply was "that Brown's presense would have given the deal better standing in the eyes of the Indonesian government." Two days after the request, on November 4, Protective Life contributed $50,000 to the Democratic National Committee, Brown's former employer. Federal Election Commission records show that the $50,000 is the only money Protective Life gave the committee during the last five yaers. McCurry, White House Press Secretary said upon being questioned about the donation, "I only heard about it this week," He said he knew little about it, "and I have been told by others that they have traditionally been strong contributers to the Republican Party." (Hummmmm, traditionally Republican donors who are suddenly donating to the DNC just when there is something they need to forward a business deal? extortion, shake down?) Ultimately and after the donation, Brown decided not to make the trip. Investigator Gutmann says, "although we're seeing the recent scandals of camaign contributions, the real events took place during Ron Brown's trade missions in 1994 Brown would set up the deals between American companies and Indonesian companies to build coal-burning power plants in Indonesia and in China.

---Apparently they understood what was going to happen even back then."

When comparing the DNC donor lists, the contributors to Clinton's Defense fund and the DNC and Clintomn/Gore campaign funds to the lists of businessmen who were guests of Brown's ( at taxpayers expense) on the many supposed fact finding visits, a picture begins to emerge. A picture of Brown using these trips as Pay off for contributors. These trips resulted in billions of dollars in "deals" between the Chinese government and "donating" American business men. Commerce officials have privately said: "it is clear that Brown was running an illegal operation,"

---"But how do you vilify a dead man who's a hero to the Democratic Party?"

[continued] Candy Rose-10:03pm May 18, 1998 EST (#74 of 100)

He's the north end of a south bound skunk

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MS. MELINDA YEE--Ms Yee, too, proved effective at raising money. Among the donors she helped steer to the DNC was Nora Lum, an Oklahoma businesswoman and co-owner of Tulsa-based Dynamic Energy Co. Ms. Lum and Dynamic gave the DNC more than $60,000 in 1992. Mrs. Lum, her comapny and her family have astrange connection to Yee, Huang and Brown which I will discuss later. Ms. Yee and her lawyer didn't return return messages seeking comment. Following Mr. Clinton's victory, Mr Brown became commerce secretary. Mr. Huang returned to Lippo in Los Angeles and Ms. Yee became a special Assistant to Mr. Brown at Commerce. In July, 1994, Mr. Huang left Lippo to become deputy assistant secretary for international economic policy at the Commerce Department. Bt then, both Mr. Huang and Ms. Yee worked in the Department's office of International Trade Administration on Asia policy, among other things such as Europe an-country issues. At the Commerce Department, the ITA is a link to hook up with U.S. companies. Ms. Yee wasn't as highly places as was Huang, but because she was often required to take notes during meetings between foreign leaders and U.S. government officials, she is considered to be in the "know". According to another Commerce Department official, she became close to Mr. Riady and was involved in preparations for the 1994 APEC meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mrs. Lum was among a group of 30 business executives (mostly executives from larger companies ) who met with Mr. Brown and other top government officials in October 1994 to discuss issues they wanted brought up at the APEC meeting. According to an internal Commerce Department document, Ms. Lum was also on one proposed list of possible participants for Mr. Brown's trade mission to China, though she didn't make the cut. Ms. Lum's daughter, Trisha, also got a low-level job at Commerce Department. According to a former Commerce Department official, Ms. Yee was the connection between Ms. Lum and Mr. Brown's office. Ms. Yee's mother was placed on the board of the Lum's company and given stock. Brown's son was given a nice job, Dynamic stock and other paymenys such as a $60,000 golf club membership. Mr. Huang and Ms. Yee both left the Commerce Department earlier this year. Ms. Yee now works for Mayor Willie Brown in San Francisco, promoting Asian trade.

---Willie Brown is under investigation bby Dan Lungren, California Attorney General for illegal fundraising....involving LIPPO GROUP.

EUGENE and NORA LUM---- Came originally from Hawaii. Being proficient at local fundraising. In 1992 they turned up in L.A. fund raising. Ron Brown got wind of their prolific abilities in that area and his assistant, Yee introduced them. From there it gets wild. Aftre the '92 elections Lum bought Dynamic, an Oklahoma-based company and knowing nothing about the business proceeded to install Michael Brown on the board of directors with a 5% piece of the action and a $60,000 golf club membership. Lum also brought in Yee's mother and placed her on the board of directors as well, with stocks as partial payment. Lum's daughter was placed on at the Commerce Dept. where Yee and Huang worked for Brown. The Lums are now under investigation for their dealings with the company funds and Michael Brown and the mother of a white House aide. Some feel Dynamic is another WORTHEN, a shell to launder money from the LIPPO conncetion to DNC and candidates. If anyone is interested in the complete story of the Lums I have that also.

HAROLD ICKES--Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Ickes is being investigated after it was learned that he instigated a million dollar loan from Warren Medoff. Medoff wanted to donate the money but he wanted a tax ride-off. Ickes sent the now famous memo telling Medoff how to funnel the money to Clinton through the state and local Democrat Party affiliates. Once a close advisor to the President, Ickes was dumped from the administration on the urging of incoming Chief of Staff, Erskine Bowles. On Feb. 12, Clinton appointed Ickes to serve as director of the 1997 G-7 Summit in Denver Colo. Ickes still hasn't forgiven Clinton for being banished from the inner circle. He is turning over documents he kept (instead of left to be shredded) to the House investigating team. He is also showing Clinton that he will not tolerate being made the scapegoat and vilified as is Clinton's habit when preparing to place the blame for particular crimes on one of their former employees.

MICKEY CANTOR----Commerce Secretary Kantor announced his department would investigate Huang's and his relationship to Commerce, but only after telephone logs indicated numerous contacts between Huang and LIPPO executives in Los Angeles, and calls to prominent Little Rock businessmen and lawyers who had extensive financial interests in Asia. Kantor denied claims by Rep. Ben Gilman (R-NY0 that his department had intentionally withheld Huang's telephone logs until after the Nov. 5 presidential election.

AND NOW THE MEAT

There are no dead bodies in the Lippo connections. That makes it different from the Whitewater crime. Yet it was the talk of the town in Washington, two weeks before the election and non- stop ever since. Clinton's main goal was to keep it at bay long enough to get re-elected and then worry about it. Bill Clinton may have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act by failing to registar as a paid foreign agent for Mochtar Riady of the Indonesian Lippo Group. And he has certainly accepted illegal foreign campaign contributions.

WE now know that Lippo connection ties into all the previous scandals of the Clinton Administration. These are all the undisputed FACTS:

� Mochtar Riady is a Chinese banker in Jakarta. He became rich running guns and drugs in the East Indies before World War II.

� Mochtar Riady later became the $6 billion Lippo Group, headquarterd in Jakarta, Indonesia.

�John Huang, a high-level employee of Lippo, was named assistant secretary of Commerce for International Economic Policy by Bill Clinton. John Huang, in 1995 left the White House tobecome Vice Chairman of the Democratic finance Committee.

�The DNC was first forced to return an illegal $250,000 contribution handled by John Huang after the press revealed that it came from a South Korean company, Cheong Am. It had been down hill since.

�Republicans called on the party to return $425,000 in contributions from an Indonesian couple, Arief and Soraya Wiriadinata, with ties to Lippo Group, but who defined himself as a gardner on the records. A gardner making enough money to donate a fortune to the DNC, then skip the country people want to talk to him about it.

�A total of $140,000 was raised at a Buddhist temple in California by John Huang and Vice President Al Gore. A woman named Man Ya Shih Temple Abess has told the Wall Street Journal that she was given $5,000 in cash by a Democratic activist and asked to write a check for that amount to the DNC. that is money laundering. Al Gore has stated that he thought he was attending an outreach meeting...that is a lie.

�A network of people and companies clustered around the Lippo conglomerate have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to Clinton and the Democrats since 1992.

�The president of Lippo Securities, Charles Dequljoe, was appointed in December of 1994 by former U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to the Investment and Services policy Advisory Committee.

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Candy Rose-10:05pm May 18, 1998 EST (#74 of 100)

He's the north end of a south bound skunk

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� In February of 1994, U.S. Trade Representative Kantor suspended a review of Indonesian human rights violations, allowing Indonesia to keep its trade privileges, worth over $600 million in sales to Indonesian companies.

� The Indonesian govenment has led a war on East Timor that has cost the lives of an estimated 200,000 East Timorese.

� The Clinton administration approved the sale of F-16 fighter jest to the Indonesian government.

� The Import-Export Bank has issued letters of credit for $900,000 to James Riady's Lippo Bank. The President of the taxpayer -financed Ex-Im bank is a Clinton appointee, Maria Luisa haley. James Riady has also pushed Ex-Im Bank for U.S. governmentfinancing of a $1 billion project by Lippo to build a power plant in northern China. A Little Rock unit of Entergy Corp. to the building contract.

� Maria Luisa Haley is the ex-husband of John Haley who is a co-defendant of former Arkansas governor Jim Guy Tucker in a case that involves a cable television franchise in Jarkarta set up by Rose Law Firm lawyer Joe Giroir and Lippo Group.

� Moctar Riady, together with Jackson Stephens, once owned Worthen Bank in Little Rock. Moctar's son James Riady was the president of the bank. The bank financed Bill Clintons election campaigns, and bailed out the 1992 Presidential campaign of Bill Clinton with a three miilion dollar loan at a point where it seemed all was lost for Mr. Bill. It saved him and he ultimately won the election...thanks to LIPPO'S cash.

� Worthen Bank invested in the Little Rock-based World Wide Travel that handled Clinton campaign travel, a scheme that resulted in Travelgate. Clinton's cousin owned the travel company.

� Mack McLarty once worked at Worthen bank, later worked for Entergy Corp., and now works in the White House, where he has been chief of staff.

� A co-owner of WORTHEN Bank at that time was Joe Giroir, managing partner of the Rose Law Firm where Hillary Clinton, Webster Hubbell, and Vince Foster worked.

� Joe Giroir, Hillary Clinton, and Vince Foster defended Stephens Inc. in a case that stemmed from a failed takeover effort involving the BCCI.

� BCCI entered the American bank scene with the help of Democrat party insiders Clark Clifford and Robert Altman. They were later defended by Robert Fiske, Robert Bennett, and Jamie Gorelick. Jamie Gorelick was in the Clinton Justice Department until recently after expressing great unhappiness at being passed over for director of the CIA, as well as any other cabinet post. Robert Bennett now defends Clinton against the charges by Paula Jones, and Robert Fiske was appointed by the Clinton Justice Department to investigate the death of Vince Foster. He concluded suicide...People once thought the world was flat.

� Joe Giroir still represents Lippo and has cooking deals between Lippo and Tyson Foods to push Tyson chicken, as the chicken to wok, in the Far East.

� The Clinton administration has provided $21 million in funding for a new, giant airport in a remote, unpopulated area in Northern Arkansas to be used to ship the Tyson-Lippo chicken. It is too remote to benefit much of anything or anyone else.

� Between the time that Webster Hubbell resigned as Deputy Attorney General and the time he was sent to jail, he was paid $250,000 by the Lippo Group, and another $400,000 by other FOBs. Prior to this sudden lucrative job landing in his lap, Hubbell was cooperating with Kenneth Start who hoped that Hubbell would turn states evidence against Bill Clinton in Whitewater -related crimes. Hubbell quit cooperating about the same time the first check came through.

� Mochtar Riady created Lippo Finance & Investment Inc., an SBA-backed lending company in Little Rock with Vernon Weaver as chairman. Weaver is now Clinton's U.S. representative to the European Union.

� The Riadys owned First National Bank in Mena, a bank that was used by drug smugglers to launder money. Some say Clinton was involved in that as well. Clinton says no, but one of his administration people was just indicted for doing that very thing. A very interesting article in the Tues, April 15,th Wallsteet Journal cronicles the events leading up to the indictment of Mr. Harmon. The deaths of two boys on the railroad tracks, a Clinton hand picked coroner saying it was an OD of Marijuana that caused them to fall asleep on the train tracks. The subsequent outcry, and the reinvestigation making a finding of murder.

� Lippo Bank of L.A. has received two cease-and-desist orders from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. for violations of money-laundering statutes.

� There are many many more intricately woven mixes and matches between characters you see show up in other scandals and this one. For instance the Foster case, travelgate, filegate and on and on. Clinton surrounds himself with unsavory characters who will do his bidding then he dumps them and blames it on them when they have served their usefulness...some even turn up dead.

AN INCOMPLETE LIST OF CRIMINALS WHO HAVE VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE

� Gigori Loutchansky, linked by Interpol to Russian organized crime, money laundering, drug trafficking, and nuclear smuggling. The DNC invited him to both a 1993 White House dinner and a major 1995 fund-raiser in a fancy Washington hotel near the White House. Former CIA director James Woolsey has termed the invite "appalling bad judgment."

� Roger Tamraz, an international fugitive from Interpol, who donated $72,000 to the DNC through his company and attended a White House coffee in last April. Tamraz, according to the Interpol warrant, is wanted in Lebanon for embezzling $200 million from his failed bank.

� Wang Jun, A year ago Trie arranged for Wang Jun to meet the president at a White House coffee klatch, one of many DNC fund-raisers. Wang is a Chinese arms merchant. His father, hardliner Wang Zhen, was vice-president of China at his death four years ago. Wang the elder publicly advocated the 1989 Tiananmen Square assault that crushed the democracy movement in China. Wang the younger is chairman of Poly Technologies. Under China's authoritarian system, that company is owned and run by the huge PLA (People's Liberation Army) -- China's main military component. The firm is accused by U.S. customs inspectors of smuggling AK-47s into Los Angeles. The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency classifies Poly as one of several PLA front companies that are conduits for Chinese intelligence operations and "acquire advanced dual-use technologies" to help modernize its military. The day after Wang Jun's coffee, an investment banker here named Ernest Green, formerly of Little Rock, contributed $50,000 to the DNC. At the State Department, Wang's visa file contains letters of endorsement from Trie and Ernest Green. Green later denied writing one. Meanwhile, the House National Security Committee and the General Accounting Office discovered that sophisticated U.S. machine tools the Commerce Department approved for sale to the Chinese for exclusive use in commercial planes have been shifted to a PLA military factory that produces fighters and missiles.

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@Jenni Vinson July 20, 1999