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...political-action committee and turn their Georgetown mansion into a political think tank where party officials and donors gathered to discuss issues over meals served by black-tied butlers. "PamPAC," as some called her Democrats for the '80s committee, raised $10 million for party coffers. A one-day fund raiser in 1992 at her Middleburg, Virginia, estate gathered more than $3 million for candidate Bill Clinton. The grateful President was happy to send her back in triumph to France, a country she had loved since sneaking away as a teenager for a weekend in Paris with a married earl...
...Institution in Maryland, Hubbell tried to open a little Washington law practice. Almost immediately, work began trickling in. First he was hired by Indonesia's Lippo Group, which reportedly offered him $250,000 a year for work that remains a mystery. Next, at the suggestion of a Democratic fund raiser, the Los Angeles Airport Commission paid him $8,250 a month to lobby the Transportation Department. These were lucky breaks for a lawyer facing possible criminal charges. Republicans have wondered aloud whether these jobs were part of a "hush-money" campaign directed by the White House to keep Hubbell happy...
...highest bidder, pleaded ignorance of the Chinese affair. Maybe so, but one at least one wheeler-dealer with established links to the Clinton Administration has already surfaced in the Justice Department's investigation. While working as a Commerce Department official, his desk calendar shows, influential Democratic fund-raiser John Huang met several times with Chinese government officials and also attended a policy breakfast and dinner at the Embassy...
...host to the June 3 event in Washington, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shone brightest of all. A few weeks before the dinner, Solomont had visited Shalala with a team of lobbyists to press for less stringent enforcement of nursing-home regulations. Solomont, a leading Democratic fund raiser and an occasional jogging partner of Clinton's, kept on lobbying throughout the campaign to win major concessions for his industry over the objections of consumer advocates. He got much of what he wanted...
...Herman, Republicans want to know how much she knew about all the telephone tag being played between her Office of Public Liaison at the White House and the fund raisers at the D.N.C. Herman was in charge of "outreach" to various ethnic groups--an effort that White House documents show included fund raising in some cases. Republican Senators are particularly interested in Herman's relationship with Huang, the D.N.C. fund raiser who once worked for the Lippo Group of Indonesia and who made 76 visits to the White House, sometimes to see Clinton, sometimes to see Ickes and sometimes...