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

To: Ish who wrote (14253)	11/10/1998 6:37:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Uh, Ish? Have you been reading the other messages? Would you care to reconcile your "truth" with other facts, I mean, opinions and feelings? The book apparently wasn't such a big deal after all, or was there maybe another, secret version that disappeared? Enquiring minds want to know!

To: Ish who wrote (14253)	11/10/1998 7:31:00 PM
From: Who, me?	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

<<I seriously doubt he want's to know the truth.>> It seems to be contagious.....amnesia seems to be a big problem with the Clinton's and their FOBs..."I can't recall"...."I just don't remember"...."my memory is just not as good anymore"..."you've got it all wrong"...."that's not what happened, it just looks that way"!!! Huang better be careful...there's nothing to prevent a knife in his back or bullet in his head! Making deals against this President can be dangerous to your health! Huang Got Immunity in Hubbell Probe By Pete Yost Associated Press Writer Tuesday, November 10, 1998; 5:08 p.m. EST WASHINGTON (AP) -- John Huang, a central figure in the fund-raising controversy, has obtained limited immunity in Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's criminal investigation of presidential friend Webster Hubbell and has cooperated with the prosecutor, legal sources said. Starr struck the deal, approved by a court, last spring as part of his investigation into whether hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to Hubbell by friends of President Clinton were designed to buy Hubbell's silence in the Whitewater investigation of the Clintons. The sources familiar with the arrangement, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said Huang told Starr's investigators he was unaware that Hubbell did any work for a $100,000 payment he received June 27, 1994, from Huang's employer, the Riady family of Indonesia. The Riadys, who run the global conglomerate Lippo Group, are longtime political supporters of Clinton. Huang told prosecutors that, based on his conversations with James Riady, a son of the family's patriarch, he understood the Hubbell payment was intended to help a friend in trouble, one source said. Hubbell's lawyer, John Nields, declined comment. In 1996 testimony to the Senate Whitewater Committee, Hubbell said he did perform work for the Riadys, but refused to say what it was. ''There wasn't anything improper with it and nobody promised me a damned thing,'' Hubbell said of being retained by the Riadys. The Justice Department has been investigating Huang because he raised more than $1 million for the Democratic Party in the 1996 elections, much of which was returned amid questions about the money's origins. The sources, who are outside Starr's office, said the Justice Department's campaign fund-raising task force knew of Huang's cooperation with Starr's investigation. Under court-ordered use immunity, a person's statements to prosecutors may not be used against him. But the person is not shielded from prosecution based on other evidence. The immunity is ''another issue defense lawyers can raise'' if the Justice Department prosecutes Huang, said Mark J. Biros, a criminal defense lawyer in Washington. But Biros added, ''One would anticipate that the department took precautions to ensure that the evidence they had was not in any way tainted by the information that Huang gave to Starr.'' Huang's lawyer, Ty Cobb, declined comment. Starr's office questioned Huang extensively shortly before Hubbell was indicted April 30 on charges of evading taxes on hundreds of thousands of dollars in income, much of it arranged by friends of the Clintons. Prosecutors have alleged Hubbell ''performed little or no work'' for the money. A judge, however, dismissed the tax charges against Hubbell. Starr has asked a federal appeals court to reinstate the case. Hubbell, a golfing buddy of the president, resigned as the Justice Department's No. 3 official in March 1994 amid an investigation into his billing practices at his old law firm in Little Rock, Ark. He pleaded guilty in December 1994 and agreed to cooperate with Starr's investigation. But Hubbell, a former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton, frustrated investigators with his lack of recollection about key events, and prosecutors turned their attention to the payments he received from presidential friends. Riady and Huang went to the White House on each of five consecutive days from June 21 to June 25, 1994, according to White House records. Hubbell had both breakfast and lunch with Riady on June 23, four days before Hubbell got the $100,000, the biggest single payment by friends of the president. The sources said Huang facilitated the payment, arranging for the money to be wired into Hubbell's bank account from one of the Riadys' business accounts overseas. In arguing to reinstate the tax charges recently, Starr himself raised a ''hush money'' scenario of buying Hubbell's silence. ''Let us assume arguendo that the Riady money was hush money,'' Starr told the federal appeals judges Oct. 21. ''We are talking here about literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in consultancy income in a business that was rendering virtually no services,'' Starr added. Cobb declined to comment about Starr's hypothetical. search.washingtonpost.com