Digby: Adelson Attracts No Attention for Shady Dealings Abroad

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Adelson Attracts No Attention for Shady Dealings Abroad--(But Gets Propositioned By Sarah Silverman)


There was a time, not long ago, when Republicans aggressively accused Democrats of being in cahoots with the Chi-coms, and the press ran around like puppies scarfing every scandalous morsel without even stopping to look at it. Here's one:

Johnny Chung, a struggling businessman whose eager giving to national Democratic candidates turned him into a leading figure in the investigation of campaign finance abuses, was charged here today with four counts of bank fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy and will plead guilty and cooperate with the authorities.

Mr. Chung is the fourth person in five weeks to be prosecuted by the Justice Department. On Jan. 28 a former restaurateur in Little Rock, Ark., and good friend of President Clinton, Yah Lin (Charlie) Trie, was charged in a 15-count indictment with obstruction of justice and other crimes related to fund-raising. Antonio Pan, a Democratic fund-raiser, was also charged in the indictment. Maria Hsia, a Democratic fund-raiser from Los Angeles, was indicted on Feb. 18 on charges of laundering campaign donations.

Mr. Chung is scheduled to enter his guilty plea on Monday morning in Federal District Court in Los Angeles, a few miles from a 1995 Clinton/ Gore '96 fund-raising event in a Century City hotel where Federal officials said he used phony or ''conduit'' contributors to illegally give the campaign $20,000, $19,000 more than permitted for one person under the Federal Election Campaign Act, according to the charges filed today.

The wingnut fever swamp managed to convince a good portion of the public that this was good evidence that Bill Clinton was a Chinese agent --- and the press was so hysterical by that point that they seemed to believe it too. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/1033563/adelson_attracts_no_attention_for_shady_dealings_abroad--%28but_gets_propositioned_by_sarah_silverman%29/

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1. Adelson

There have been a few good stories, e.g. this AM's NYT.

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2. Du rec. Nt

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3. What a travesty.

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4. K & R