Posted on 06/21/2004 11:56:02 AM PDT by BlessedByLiberty
WASHINGTON - Stung during the 1990s Democratic fund-raising controversy, John Kerry (news - web sites) is returning a $2,000 check from the son of South Korea (news - web sites)'s disgraced ex-president after learning the donor was charged with tax evasion.
Kerry's presidential campaign also acknowledges that some of its fund-raisers met with a South Korean government official who was trying to organize a Korean-American political group. That official has been sent home amid questions he was involving himself in American politics.
The Kerry campaign said it did not know about the $2,000 donation from Chun Jae-yong or his background until informed by The Associated Press. "We are sending the check back," spokesman Michael Meehan said.
**SNIP**
Chun Jae-yong was a business partner with Rick Yi, one of Kerry's major fund-raisers in the Asian-American community. Yi acknowledged soliciting the donation from Chun last summer before learning of his legal problems.
"I didn't think anything wrong of it," said Yi, who has raised more than $500,000 for Kerry and Democratic causes and is listed as one of the campaign's fund-raising vice chairmen. "If I had known who he was at the time I probably would not have taken the money."
Yi, a former military attache in the Clinton White House, said he and Chun were business partners for about six months last year in a Duluth, Ga., company called OR Solutions Inc. When making his donation Aug. 11, Chun listed himself as the company's president and chief operating officer
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Got his hand caught in the cookie jar. What about the $1 million that he collected from a Korean diplomat, though? I wonder if he's gonna give that back.
Operative word -- caught
How morally fortuitous of him.
Exactly!
Interesting that foreign campaign cash from ties to the Clinton White House are still surfacing.
If he returns all the money from illicit donors, would he have anything left to spend?
I remind everyone that one of the 'Toon's first actions as head of the DNC in '93 was to dismantle the DNCs apparatus for vetting contributions. It is my personal belief that he did that to make it more easy to slip such illegal contributions into the DNC coffers and to give "plausible deniability". I do not believe that they have reinstituted such vetting.
This "contribution" (bribe?) is an example that they are not doing sufficient job doing so.
ALL contributions to each and every political or semi-political operation (including such things as FR) must be published on the internet within 24hrs, I believe, as part of the only way to have any chance of stopping such abuses.
Sounds like he still comes out at least $498,000 ahead.
bttt
HAHAHAHAHA...
Now there is someone with moral clarity and principles.
Ummm .. why is he and his campaign trying to get other countries to influence OUR elections??
Hmmm .. Didn't Jimmy Carter do that too?
Since it's a Rat, he just has to SAY he gave the $ back and all is forgiven.
Nope, no liberal press here!
MKM
Don't forget to include the estimated interest that would have accumulated, had the money been more wisely invested, when you return it, Senator Presidentwannabe.
Don't forget Clinton and China.
Why just the other day in that New York Times article trilling about Bill's book---not to be confused with the more down to earth book review---the 3 writers noted that Clinton glosses over in one sentence sending carriers to the straits of Taiwan.
I immediately posted the story of Charlie Trie writing to Clinton and getting a response that the NSC helped to draft. Charlie Trie donated hundred of thousands of dollars to Clinton' legal defense fund (Note: this was two years before we were graced with the knowledge of Monica Lewinsky) and Charlie told Clinton the way it was going to be with China and Taiwan.
And so it was.
But worse than that, was John Huang and his top secret clearance and his role at Commerce then the DNC and his activities that hint strongly of spying. Put in there at the behest of his former employer at Lippo, Riady.
Hey, this fellow was just trying to win one for the Flipper!
This should put an end to the speculation about whether he had international leader's support?
LOL!
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