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...success at securing government subsidies and the contributions Haney made to the Vice President and his party. But in this case, Gore did not need to pick up the phone to have direct influence on the fortunes of Haney's company; Haney had all the right connections. His lobbyist, Peter Knight, is the hub of Gore's political circle. He ran Gore's House and Senate office for years, helped finance his campaigns and chaired the Clinton-Gore re-election effort in 1996. In Knight, Haney also had a solid link to Tom Grumbly, who worked for Gore...
...close observers of the proceedings, Brown may be tempted to cut his own deal, and he just may have information to trade on former D.N.C. official MARVIN ROSEN, who was at the controls of the runaway Democratic fund-raising machine during the '96 election, was a lobbyist at the same firm as Brown and was also a Kennedy confidant. The Lums have tales to tell about many other figures in the fund-raising scandal. They crossed paths with the likes of notorious Democratic fund raisers JOHN HUANG and CHARLIE TRIE. And NORA LUM certainly knows her way around the White...
...friends. The feisty and sometimes flaky Indiana Republican is slated to chair the House hearings on campaign-finance scandals, but even as he prepares to cast the first stones, he is being hit with allegations of his own fund-raising sins. He has been accused of shaking down a lobbyist for campaign contributions, improperly accepting money from Sikh temples and pressuring an Education Department official to help a contributor. And last week he had to return a $500 donation from a lobbyist for Zaire's departed dictator Mobutu Sese Seko...
More bad news arrived two months ago, when the Washington Post reported that Mark Siegel, a former lobbyist for Pakistan and a longtime Democratic activist, had accused Burton of threatening to cut off his access to other lawmakers last year if he didn't deliver $5,000 to the Congressman's campaign. Burton admits he solicited the money from Siegel and was disappointed when Siegel didn't deliver, but he denies making any threats. Siegel has since been called to testify before a federal grand jury...
...uncovered Burton's efforts to win concessions from the Education Department on behalf of a campaign contributor who runs a medical school in the Caribbean. And last week the Hill detailed Burton's sporadic history of praising Zaire's Mobutu after receiving contributions and honoraria from Mobutu's Washington lobbyist. The report caused Burton to return $500 to the lobbyist, who had exceeded his legal limit by that much in giving to Burton's 1990 campaign...