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To: TigerPaw who wrote (17702)	4/27/2000 12:48:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Why doesn't AlGore Jr, the poster boy for campaign finance corruption, agree to stop taking illegal money? AlGore Jr raged when asked by Federal investigators about some of his illegal fundraising: GORE FUMES AT FEDS' FUNDING QUERIES By BRIAN BLOMQUIST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WASHINGTON - Vice President Al Gore blew his top when he was grilled last week by funny-money investigators - because they asked about his illegal Buddhist temple fund-raiser for the first time, sources say. Gore seemed stunned that investigators were asking about his controversial 1996 fund-raiser now and fumed that the questions were "outrageous," said a source familiar with the probe. The "contentious" session ended in a yelling match between Gore and federal investigators, the source added. New attention to the Democratic fund-raiser at His Lai temple in Hacienda Heights, Calif., couldn't come at a worse time for Gore, who is in a fierce battle against Republican George W. Bush in the presidential campaign. Republicans have been threatening to use the embarrassing video of Gore at the temple with flowers draped around his neck, surrounded by nuns and monks in saffron robes. Until last Tuesday, Gore had never been grilled about the $140,000 Democratic fund-raiser - and it is unclear why investigators from Attorney General Janet Reno's funny-money task force are focusing on it now. President Clinton also got grilled by investigators about fund-raising abuses last Friday, and the White House chose later that day - Good Friday and three days after Gore's Q-and-A session - to reveal that both men had been questioned. The White House also said both Clinton and Gore were told they're not criminal targets. Neither White House spokesman Jim Kennedy nor Gore's private lawyer, James Neal of Tennessee, would comment on Gore's grilling. Maria Hsia, a longtime Gore fund-raiser who set up the event at the temple, was recently convicted for taking laundered money from nuns and monks there. She's due to be sentenced this summer. The temple is a nonprofit organization that's barred from making campaign contributions, but investigators say the temple reimbursed 11 nuns and monks who'd taken poverty vows for contributions of $5,000 each. nypostonline.com