June 9, 2000 Bribing Miss Hazel The inside story of payoffs to Hillary, O'Leary © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com By Johnny Chung I know there are some people out there who find the concept of government conspiracies amusing. Despite any evidence that surfaces pointing to government cover-ups of illegal activity, "level-headed" citizens give Uncle Sam's agents the benefit of the doubt and call the rest of us "paranoid." Those people may call themselves level-headed, but I say they are ostriches burying their heads in the sand. As the saying goes, it's not being paranoid if they're really after you. Webster defines conspiracy as "a joining secretly with others for an evil purpose; a plot." I submit to you that extortion and attempting to conceal the crimes of the president of the United States -- the leader of the free world -- are indeed evil purposes. Government conspiracies exist. I know this because I have been used in some of them. Let's review just two of them now. After two and a half years, the Justice Department finally handed over documents to the House Government Reform Committee, which released them this week. The documents add to the mounting pile of evidence demonstrating a conspiracy at the highest levels of government in the Chinagate scandal. Eager reporters writing their stories called me up with many questions. But they all wrote piecemeal stories, focusing on different aspects of the whole story instead of giving the big picture. I'd like to add to those stories by giving you a bit more inside information straight from the horse's mouth. One of the newly-released documents was a memo from FBI Director Louis Freeh, recommending the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate former Department of Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary for involvement in Chinagate. In case you're thinking, "Haven't I already heard that some high-ranking official recommended an independent counsel?" you're right. Former Justice Department task force supervisor Chuck LaBella recommended an external investigation. Even the judge that sentenced me for my involvement in the scandal, Manuel Real, found it suspicious that no investigator had been appointed. That's right: All three of these gentlemen -- the FBI director, the DOJ task force leader and the judge -- thought it necessary to have an independent counsel investigate the huge scandal. But it never happened. In the summer of 1996, I agreed to donate $25,000 to O'Leary's favorite charity, Africare, at the suggestion of the secretary's aide Corlis Moody. The money was to secure a place for China Petro at a political meeting with O'Leary. Moody said an invitation letter to China Petro signed by O'Leary would be sent. Indeed, I received the faxed invitation with O'Leary's signature, and I faxed it to a China Petro official. Later, an African America gentleman claiming to be an employee of the Energy Department came to my apartment in D.C. to collect the $25,000 check to Africare. He also said he needed to retrieve the faxed invitation I had received that morning because the inspector general of the Energy Department said that it was illegal. So I gave him the check along with the fax, but I emphasized my desire to secure the meeting. After the Chinagate scandal erupted, FBI and DOJ prosecutors asked me about the O'Leary incident. They showed me a copy of the invitation, but it had been altered. "This is not the one I saw before," I told the agents. They went back to do some more digging and found the original version. Nevertheless, Attorney General Janet Reno sent a letter to the U.S. Appeals Court saying there was no need for an independent counsel to investigate the bribery. O'Leary knew nothing about my connection to her close aide Corlis Moody, Reno said. And besides, the invitation letter had been signed by autopen. Now, keep in mind I knew nothing about Africare before this incident. Why would I donate money to an organization I knew nothing about? All I knew was that I paid for a meeting, and I got it. By the way, Hazel O'Leary is the director of Africare. Coincidence? I think not. The 1996 campaign finance scandal, also referred to as Chinagate, is about money for political access. It's about how money can influence U.S. elections and buy political power. This Justice Department promised the American people it would turn every stone in order to get to the truth. High-ranking government officials said they would follow the money and that they would let the chips fall where they may. It's been three years. So far, the chips have all fallen on the donors -- me and 24 other people, none of whom are part of the White House administration, the Democratic National Committee, or people close to the president, first lady and vice president. We have become the poster boys of the Chinagate scandal. Americans have seen good, professional, career prosecutors and officials in the Justice Department leave, one-by-one, out of frustration because their efforts to get to the truth have been stymied by political appointees. That is a shame. But they're not alone in their frustration. Members of both chambers of Congress are calling this the most unethical White House administration and Justice Department in America's history. If you ask any former attorneys general of the DOJ about honesty and integrity, they will say there is none in this administration, including the Justice Department and the first lady's office -- the setting for my second example of government conspiracies. The famous LaBella memo mentions an investigation of Hillary Rodham Clinton's office. I told LaBella about the $50,000 check I gave to Maggie Williams -- the first lady's chief of staff -- inside Mrs. Clinton's White House office. It was money for political access. By accepting the money, Williams and the first lady are guilty of violating the Hatch Act. Trying to defend his wife, Clinton said at a 1997 press conference that she merely accepted the money for the DNC. She should have referred me to the DNC, he told reporters. But ladies and gentlemen, why would I want to hand my check to the DNC? I gave the check to the person from whom I was buying political access. If you're going to the movies to see "Mission: Impossible 2," you don't buy a ticket to see "Shanghai Noon." I needed to secure my political access in Washington, D.C., because I frequently entertained Chinese visitors who were valuable to my business. To impress them, I brought them to the White House. In order to better facilitate the arrangements, I needed an insider. In March of 1995, I brought a group of Chinese businessmen to the White House to meet with the first lady and have their pictures taken in the oval office. While we were there, an intern named Gina Ratliffe from the first lady's office was very friendly to my guests. So, I hired her as my company's public relations person while she still worked in the White House. Unfortunately, the phrase "White House intern" has such a bad stigma associated with it now that I feel compelled to clarify this was strictly a professional relationship. Ms. Ratliffe was not a Clintonesque intern. To familiarize her with Chinese customs, I sent Gina to China. After she returned, she told me she needed to move to an apartment in DuPont Circle where she could be closer to the White House. She wanted my company to pay for a year-long lease she had just signed at a cost of $15,000. We were already paying her a salary -- something she didn't get from her internship -- and she was still employed under a 90-day probationary period. It soon became clear that Gina was not as good at her job as she had promised. Before the probationary period was over, we decided to let her go and did not pay her apartment lease. Disgruntled, she began sending my company several letters. Soon afterwards, I received a phone call from the first lady's office. Ms. Evan Ryan, the first lady's secretary, asked me to come to the White House. Once I arrived, Ryan relayed a message: "Maggie Williams said that if you don't settle this and pay Gina, this office will no longer welcome you." They were going to cut off my White House access. I asked Ryan why I should pay for the apartment contract, but they knew I wanted to secure my White House access, and they used this to threaten me. So I decided to give the intern an $8,000 check, including termination documentation prepared by my corporate attorney that she was to sign and return to my company. I handed copies of the documentation to Even Ryan to show I had settled the matter. Later, I found out the check had been cashed, but the termination papers were never signed nor returned to me. Those White House people really know how to shake you down. After reading the LaBella and Freeh memos, I feel angry but vindicated. I've been telling my side of the story all along, and it's taken years for the evidence to be released. When I accepted my guilt, I needed to right a wrong. I needed to tell the truth, and I needed to help government officials get to the bottom of the scandal. High-ranking DOJ officials tried to stop every investigation into people close to the president, the first lady and the vice president. They stonewalled all the investigations of Chinagate. They replaced all the FBI agents who knew the case well. The FBI agents did a good job, and their boss, Louis Freeh, made a correct decision to recommend an independent counsel. My prosecutor, Michael McCaul, finished his case well and with my full cooperation, which included putting my life and the lives of my family on the line. McCaul's boss, Chuck LaBella, kept his promise to me by writing a good and thorough memo recommending an independent counsel. And Federal Court Judge Manuel Real also believed the case merited an independent counsel. But Attorney General Janet Reno said no. After three years, we all know that no matter how many subpoenas are issued by Congress, no matter how many people testify on Capitol Hill, the Justice Department's response will always be the same -- stonewall the case and sweep everything under the rug. 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