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Friday, 12-Jan-01 01:16:37
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Riady Admits Illegally Funding Clinton
NewsMax.com
Friday, Jan. 12, 2001
Indonesian billionaire James Riady has agreed to pay a record
$8.6 million criminal fine for illegally funding Bill Clinton's 1992
presidential campaign, the Justice Department said Thursday
night.
According to the Associated Press and other wire services:
In a plea bargain filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles,
Riady agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy
for concealing foreign contributions, which are illegal in the U.S.
He will not face jail time.
The government's court filing said the goal of the contributions
was to buy influence for Lippo Group and LippoBank.
Riady is to surrender and come to the U.S. at an unspecified
future date – even though there is no extradition treaty between
Indonesia and the United States. Fox News reported he was
expected to fly from Indonesia to Los Angeles for a court
appearance Tuesday.
An FBI summary released last year said Democrat fund-raiser
John Huang, a Riady employee, reported that in 1992 Riady told
Clinton during a limousine ride that he wanted to raise $1 million
for his campaign. Huang pleaded guilty to a campaign financing
felony and has been cooperating with the government since
August 1999.
Last April, Clinton told federal investigators he did not have "a
specific recollection of what the conversation was, or this fact of
the car ride.'' He said all he could remember was seeing Riady
"sometime in '92 after I became the nominee,'' and that Riady
promised to help his campaign.
LippoBank California, a bank affiliated with Riady's Lippo
Group, agreed to plead guilty to 86 misdemeanor accounts
charging that its agents, Riady and Huang, made illegal foreign
campaign contributions from 1988 through 1994. Riady also
agreed to assist with the government's inquiry.
Riady is one of 26 people and two corporations so far charged
by Justice's campaign finance task force, established four years
ago.
The Ray Connection
A Justice Department official said that independent counsel
Robert Ray, who is investigating Clinton on other matters, was
consulted and indicated that the plea bargain was consistent
with the interests of his investigation, which does not include
campaign financing.
Ray's office has prosecuted former Justice official and Clinton
friend Webster Hubbell, and has looked into whether payments
to him, including $100,000 from Lippo Group after he resigned,
were designed to keep him from testifying against Clinton or his
wife, Hillary.
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Clinton Scandals
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