>>>In addition, LippoBank California, a California state-chartered bank affiliated with Lippo Group, will plead guilty to 86 misdemeanor counts charging its agents, Riady and John Huang, with making illegal foreign campaign contributions from 1988 through 1994.
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>>>Riady is one of 26 people and two corporations charged by the Campaign Financing Task Force, which was established four years ago by Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate allegations of campaign financing abuses in the 1996 election cycle.
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>>>...During the period of August 1992 through October 1992, shortly after Riady pledged $1 million in support of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's campaign for the Presidency of the United States, contributions made by Huang were reimbursed with funds wired from a foreign Lippo Group entity into an account Riady maintained at LippoBank and then distributed to Huang in cash.
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>>>...On August 16, 1999, a federal judge sentenced Robert S. Lee to three years of probation and 250 hours of community service for aiding and abetting the making of an illegal foreign campaign contribution to the Democratic National Committee.
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>>>Kinda makes you proud to be a Democrat, huh
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>>You're right, I should switch to the pure party, the Republicans ;-)
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>Not at all. The Republicans are just the "lesser of two evils", which is what I've been saying. The difference, as I see it, is that you Democrats rally behind your criminals and us Republicans want ours convicted and immediately removed. Your turn ....

For starters I would not characterize myself as a Democrat. We basically have a two party system so in that sense I am a Democrat given the two choices. More of an independent really, though. There are Republicans I like and Democrats I can't stand.

You had me scratching my head about which criminals "we" are supposedly rallying behind, given that the recent scandals I could think of (Ney, Cunningham) involved Republicans. Thank you for clarifying in another message that you were talking about a 24 year old case.