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Strategies & Market Trends : The Thread Formerly Known as No Rest For The Wicked -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: backman who wrote (23348)4/4/1999 4:44:00 AM
From: Glenn  Respond to of 90042
 
Here we go again....

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SATURDAY, APRIL 03, 1999 20:08:22 ET XXXXX

CHINA'S MILITARY CHIEF DIRECTED MONEY FROM BEIJING TO CLINTON CAMPAIGN, SAYS CHUNG

Former Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung has told federal investigators that the chief of China's military intelligence secretly directed funds from Beijing to help re-elect President Clinton in 1996, the LOS ANGELES TIMES is reporting in Sunday editions.

The exclusive report by TIMES reporters William Rempel, Henry Weinstein and Alan Miller hit Washington in the overnight hours.

Sources familiar with Chung's sealed statements to federal prosecutors tell the TIMES: "Chung says he met three times with the intelligence official, Gen. Ji Shengde, who ordered $300,000 deposited into the Torrance, Calif., businessman's bank account to subsidize campaign donations intended for Clinton."

Last spring federal agents moved Chung and his family into protective custody, law enforcement sources told the paper.

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