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

To: DMaA who wrote (59340)	8/31/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I sort of like Forbes, esp. since Bush wants Gun Control. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UPI) - Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes is using the Russian international money laundering scandal as a point of attack against Vice President Al Gore, who is running for the Democratic presidential nod. In a 60-second radio ad running in upstate New York, where President Clinton is vacationing, the Forbes campaign says Gore, who sits on a commission that oversees U.S.-Russian relations, owes an apology to Americans and Russians for being ''out of the loop'' about the alleged scam involving New York banks and International Monetary Fund loans. The ad also says Forbes wants Treasury Secretary Larry Summers to apologize in the wake of the scandal. Summers was the Treasury Department's second-in-command under Robert Rubin, who left the top post in July after several years in charge. U.S. authorities are investigating whether Russian mobsters diverted as much as $15 billion in funds, including IMF aid, out of Russia through the Bank of New York, Republic National Bank and U.S. financial institutions. None of the banks have been charged with crimes, and the IMF has said none of its funds were caught in the alleged money laundering. A transcript of the ad on Forbes's official campaign Web site says he wants the Clinton administration to ''immediately block all foreign aid to Russia until their workers are paid and root out the corruption of Russia's robber barons.''