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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: truedog who wrote (58645)	8/14/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 67261

Ooops, some truth spilled out: Saturday August 14 3:11 PM ET Chung: Democrats Advised Him On Taking The 5th Reuters Photo Full Coverage Democratic Party WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic fund raiser Johnny Chung, a key figure in the 1996 campaign finance scandal, said Saturday Democrats told him how to plead the fifth amendment before he testified to Congress in 1997. Speaking in an interview to air on the Fox News Channel Monday, Chung said he received a package on ''how to plead the fifth'' from the chief counsel for the Democrats on the Government Reform and Oversight Committee where he was set to testify. ''At the very beginning of 1997, the Democrat side of the Government Reform Committee sent a package to my office, to my attorney's office,'' Chung said in the interview, adding that the package, ''Tried to teach me how to plead -- take the fifth.'' Pleading the fifth amendment allows a witness to avoid answering questions which could lead to self-incriminating responses. Legal experts said it would be highly unusual for counsel to a congressional panel to offer legal advice to a witness such as Chung. Chung, a Taiwanese-born businessman, appeared before the congressional panel in a five-hour closed session in November 1997. He was called to testify again in May of this year after claims that his account differed from press reports of what he told federal investigators. Chung has been cooperating with a Justice Department task force probing allegations of illegal Democratic fund-raising in 1996. He told the panel in May that he helped funnel $300,000 from a high-ranking Chinese military officer to President Clinton's re-election campaign. China has denied the charge. Chung was given five years probation in December after striking a deal with prosecutors and pleading guilty to charges of bank fraud, tax evasion and making illegal contributions to the Clinton-Gore campaign. dailynews.yahoo.com