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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: L&J: Fundraising SleazeFest Meets The Twilight Zone
At long last, we have found the BAG MAN.
Charlie Triage to the rescue! (aka Charlie Tuna)
/s/ Paul Mitchell
http://www.supremelaw.com
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At 11:00 AM 7/31/97 -0500, you wrote:
>
> USA Today
> July 31, 1997
>
> WALTER SHAPIRO: Clinton tale: Two sets of associates
>
> With his even-handed questioning and slightly bemused manner, Connecticut
> Democrat Joseph Lieberman has become a star of the Senate campaign
> hearings. After listening to Wednesday morning's testimony, Lieberman
> observed, "I don't know if a novelist would get away with writing a story
> like this."
>
> What piqued Lieberman's fancy were the comic aspects of run-away
> fund-raiser Charlie Trie's three 1996 visits to the offices of President
> Clinton's legal defense fund. Each time, Trie would show up with a shopping
> bag stuffed with suspicious checks and money orders for a grand total of
> nearly $800,000. When Trie arrived for a second visit lugging a heavy sack,
> Michael Cardozo, the director of the defense fund, thought to himself in
> horror, "Oh my God, he's got a million dollars this time."
>
> Troubled by Trie's initial haul of $460,000, Cardozo balked at accepting
> the second shipment. Undaunted, Trie then asked for Cardozo's help in
> marketing Chinese novelty items. When you hit these devices with your fist,
> Cardozo testified, "they immediately inflated into the form of easily
> recognizable products such as Coca-Cola." Another one morphed into a
> cushion with the United Airlines logo on it. "They stayed inflated for four
> or five days," Cardozo recalled, "and we couldn't get rid of them."
>
> Lieberman was right, this scene deserved to be immortalized in fiction. But
> the central character of this novel wouldn't be Trie or any of the other
> Asian-money sharpies who gravitated to the 1996 Clinton re-election
> campaign. No, the central character would be none other than Clinton. For
> what was on display along with the whoopee cushions were the two, almost
> contradictory, facets of Clinton's character.
>
> The glib and polished Cardozo, who had served in the Carter White House,
> represented the high-minded presidential side of Clinton's perplexing
> persona. The legal defense fund had its roots in the tawdry allegations of
> Paula Jones, but its trustees were a gray-beard all-star team of former
> Cabinet members and retired university presidents. No matter how sticky the
> situation, Clinton has an unfailing knack of finding luminaries with
> unblemished reputations to front for him.
>
> Trie, who once ran Clinton's favorite Little Rock Chinese restaurant, is
> the embodiment of the president's sleazy side. People like Trie also have
> their uses in the Clinton firmament. As governor, Clinton appointed Trie to
> a coveted position on the Arkansas fire extinguisher board. As president,
> Clinton expanded an advisory council on Pacific trade to make room for
> Trie, who had proven his mettle as a Democratic donor.
>
> Concerned about Trie's initial offering of $460,000 in mystery money (which
> would turn out to have originated with a Buddhist sect in Taiwan), Cardozo
> met with Hillary Rodham Clinton to check out Trie's claims to be a close
> friend of the president. "Even after some prompting," Cardozo testified,
> "Mrs. Clinton scarcely recognized Mr. Trie's name as a Little Rock
> restaurateur." During the meeting, Cardozo and the first lady shared a
> laugh over Watergate memories of Nixon Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans
> accepting a bag crammed with campaign cash.
>
> Cardozo would have done better had he gone directly to Bruce Lindsey, the
> president's boon companion and loyal aide. At a second White House session
> about Trie, Cardozo drew a blank until Lindsey wandered in midway through
> the meeting. Lindsey, well-acquainted with Clinton's multifaceted life,
> promptly identified Trie.
>
> Even after the legal defense fund prudently decided to reject Trie's
> initial $460,000 offering, no one bothered to check on the tainted
> contributions that Trie was simultaneously raising for the Democratic
> National Committee. This was typical of the persistent don't-ever-ask
> attitude of respectable Clintonites whenever confronted with hints of the
> unsavory aspects of the president's eclectic friendships.
>
> Cardozo hired a private investigative firm to unravel the source of Trie's
> lavish gifts to the legal defense fund. But he instructed the gumshoes not
> to contact Trie. A reason: Cardozo didn't want to trouble a Bruce
> Lindsey-certified friend of the president.
>
> After four weeks of inconclusive hearings, I was getting ready to conclude
> that the Clinton re-election effort was bumbling, obtuse and greedy but not
> overtly corrupt.
>
> But now I'm suspicious of everything, after long-requested White House
> records were conveniently just delivered to the committee. They show that
> Macau-based businessman Ng Lap Seng made 10 visits to the White House. Ng
> is the same man who wired Trie $905,000, apparently to fund his donations
> to the Clinton campaign.
>
> As they say in the fiction business, the plot thickens.
>
>
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