Posted on 09/26/2002 7:51:17 PM PDT by Liz
"Not only have reporters revealed [Linda]Daschle's role in the airline bailout negotiations, but they have brought to light a provision in the 2000 transportation budget that required the FAA to buy baggage-scanners from one of Daschle's clients, L-3 International. The DOT's inspector general has found the L-3 equipment to be substandard, yet the FAA now has no choice but to purchase one of L-3's scanners for every one it buys from an L-3 competitor. The L-3 machines have been so bad that the one at the Dallas-Ft. Worth airport leaked radiation, and most others purchased by the FAA have not been installed. The inspector general told Congress that the FAA's requirement to buy L-3's machines is one reason that DOT will not be able to meet the new mandate to screen all luggage for bombs for many years.
Interesting, and thanks.
"Chang...was arrested Friday and charged with helping an employee, Audrey Yu, thwart a grand jury probe.
Chang contributed to the campaigns of Clinton and Bush (41) and visited Clinton three times in the White House. He also traveled to with McAuliffe to South Korea in August as part of his failed effort to buy Korea Life Insurance Company, the third-largest insurer in South Korea, Critchley said. (Michael Critchley, Chang's lawyer.)
Two attorneys have pleaded guilty to federal charges of helping Chang steer an $11,000 corporate check to Torricelli's Senate campaign in 1996. Former Bergen County REPUBLICAN CHairman Berek Don admitted that he used the check to illegally reimburse so-called straw donors to Torricelli's 1996 campaign. Englewood Cliffs attorney Carmine Alampi has also admitted helping Don in the scheme.
...last week, FBI officials arrested [Audrey] Yu, a close associate of Chang, after a grand jury in Newark charged her with lying about the destruction of documents that had been subpoenaed. ...FBI agents began investigating in January 1997 Chang and his companies, Nikko Enterprises, or Bright and Bright Corp....
Bright and Bright's chairman is Daniel J. Murphy, a lobbyist and retired Navy admiral. Murphy was chief of staff to Bush (41) when Bush was vice-president (under Reagan) Murphy also was a deputy director of the CIA.
'The prosecutors have said they want him (Chang) to give information about public officials. I have been telling them repeatedly there is no such information. The prosecutors don't want to hear this,' said Critchley.
Critchley's statement that Chang had no damaging information on Torricelli drew praise from [Torricelli's] attorney, ABBE LOWELL.
'The loudest, truest, and clearest words came from Chang and his attorney in open court when they said that Mr. Chang has no information on any wrongdoing by public officials,' LOWELL said.
McAuliffe did not return a telephone call to his Washington, D.C., office." Tuesday, December 14, 1999, from The Bergen Record
From the Washington Post.com, Saturday, August 22, 1999 From a list of donors who gave the maximum $10,000 to Clinton Legal Defense Fund
David Chang Senior Advisor, Panacom Inc.
Audrey Yu Acct. Mngr. Bright and Bright Corp.
Am using notes have not looked at for years. For the complete Bergen Record article by David Voreacos, go to Google.com Bright Bright Corp. "david chang" click on: campaign contributor charged in obstruction. Confidentially, there are a lot of people going in and out here who are extremely impressed by my diligence; I am on my own here so am not setting a poor example by stealing anyone else's time.
This is preposterous.How can he help to try to Unfreeze " North Korean assets " and not be punished in any way?How many times will McAwfuliffe be allowed to slide,hmmm,5,10 ,15?And why is Torricelli allowed to remain a Senator,much less run for Re-Election like he's done nothing wrong? Questions like these really infuriate me.
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