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...Senate hearings open this week, Washington's campaign-finance scandal has come down to this: Republican Fred Thompson wants to know if Huang, the architect of Asian fund raising and the must-see Democrat for ethnic-Chinese moguls like the CP trio, was helping funnel foreign money into Democratic coffers and sending back U.S. government secrets in return. In tracing the money and telephone connections of Huang's fund-raising world, Thompson's investigators want to know: Was he a spy for China in the guise of a Democratic moneyman? Did he funnel money from Overseas Chinese-led companies...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fred Thompson may not have his star witness after all. When Senator John Glenn sprung the tantalizing news on the eve of the hearings that key suspect and Democratic fundraiser John Huang might testify before the Senate campaign finance committee, Thompson's show looked to be starting off with fireworks. But Huang, who is demanding partial immunity as his price, may never get to the witness stand, now that Attorney General Janet Reno has announced her opposition to the deal. Granting Huang even partial immunity, she argued, may interfere with her ongoing investigation into campaign finance irregularities...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: As Fred Thompson could tell you from his Watergate days, a political scandal needs two things before it'll stick with the public: a star witness and a catchy plotline. After just one day of Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearings on campaign finance abuses, Thompson's committee may have both. The Senator departed from his pre-released script when he led off this morning with the plot, alleging that "high-level Chinese government officials" plotted to influence U.S. elections with illegal money in a secret operation. "Our investigation suggests the plan continues today." And then came the witness...
...month rent the Haitians pay comes in handy. And church members say the planted congregation sends a message to the neighborhood. "It helps to see people of all colors coming into the church all week rather than just white people coming in on Sunday," says Our Redeemer president Fred Bodimer...
...President and the Speaker of the House will share a single small office in the White House basement. Members of the media were not allowed in any government buildings today. But they were reassured that at 11am tomorrow, Vice President Al Gore and Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chair Fred Thompson will address a joint press conference on the Capitol steps to answer all of their questions about the plan. Tonight, as the sun settled sleepily below the horizon, a tall, lanky man reported by some sources to have played some sort of part in the extraordinary White House session...