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CONDUIT PAYMENTS TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE HEARING BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION OCTOBER 9, 1997 Serial No. 105–51 Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight ( U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 44–833 CC WASHINGTON : 1997 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Sep 04 2002 16:54 Sep 20, 2002 Jkt 081028 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 W:\DISC\44833 44833 COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT DAN BURTON, Indiana, Chairman BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York HENRY A. WAXMAN, California J. DENNIS HASTERT, Illinois TOM LANTOS, California CONSTANCE A. MORELLA, Maryland ROBERT E. WISE, JR., West Virginia CHRISTOPHER SHAYS, Connecticut MAJOR R. OWENS, New York STEVEN SCHIFF, New Mexico EDOLPHUS TOWNS, New York CHRISTOPHER COX, California PAUL E. KANJORSKI, Pennsylvania ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN, Florida GARY A. CONDIT, California JOHN M. MCHUGH, New York CAROLYN B. MALONEY, New York STEPHEN HORN, California THOMAS M. BARRETT, Wisconsin JOHN L. MICA, Florida ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON, Washington, THOMAS M. DAVIS, Virginia DC DAVID M. MCINTOSH, Indiana CHAKA FATTAH, Pennsylvania MARK E. SOUDER, Indiana ELIJAH E. CUMMINGS, Maryland JOE SCARBOROUGH, Florida DENNIS J. KUCINICH, Ohio JOHN B. SHADEGG, Arizona ROD R. BLAGOJEVICH, Illinois STEVEN C. LATOURETTE, Ohio DANNY K. DAVIS, Illinois MARSHALL ‘‘MARK’’ SANFORD, South JOHN F. TIERNEY, Massachusetts Carolina JIM TURNER, Texas JOHN E. SUNUNU, New Hampshire THOMAS H. ALLEN, Maine PETE SESSIONS, Texas HAROLD E. FORD, Tennessee MICHAEL PAPPAS, New Jersey ——— VINCE SNOWBARGER, Kansas BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont BOB BARR, Georgia (Independent) ROB PORTMAN, Ohio KEVIN BINGER, Staff Director RICHARD D. BENNETT, Chief Counsel JUDITH MCCOY, Chief Clerk PHIL SCHILIRO, Minority Staff Director (II) VerDate Sep 04 2002 16:54 Sep 20, 2002 Jkt 081028 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 W:\DISC\44833 44833 C O N T E N T S Page Hearing held on October 9, 1997 ............................................................................ 1 Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by: Barr, Hon. Bob, a Representative in Congress from the State of Georgia: Exhibits 70, 71, 72, 75, 76, and 78 .......................................................... 151 Exhibits 115, 119, 60, 61, 53, and 67 ....................................................... 158 Bennett, Richard, chief counsel, Committee on Government Reform and Oversight: Exhibit 68 ................................................................................................... 96 Exhibit 69 ................................................................................................... 98 Exhibits 70, 71, and 72 ............................................................................. 100 Exhibit 73 ................................................................................................... 104 Exhibits 75 and 76 .................................................................................... 106 Exhibit 77 ................................................................................................... 109 Exhibit 78 ................................................................................................... 111 Exhibit 93 ................................................................................................... 115 Exhibit 94 ................................................................................................... 117 Exhibit 96 ................................................................................................... 119 Exhibit 97 ................................................................................................... 121 Exhibit C–28 .............................................................................................. 123 Exhibit 99 ................................................................................................... 254 Exhibit 100 ................................................................................................. 260 Exhibit 101 ................................................................................................. 262 Exhibits 102 and 103 ................................................................................ 264 Exhibit 106 ................................................................................................. 267 Exhibits 104 and 105 ................................................................................ 269 Burton, Hon. Dan, a Representative in Congress from the State of Indi- ana: Letters referring to House Rule XI 3.(f)(2) .............................................. 4 Pertinent supplementary material ........................................................... 306 Prepared statement of ............................................................................... 9 Foung, Manlin: Deposition of .............................................................................................. 16 Exhibits from deposition ........................................................................... 59 Horn, Hon. Stephen, a Representative in Congress from the State of California: Exhibit 113 ................................................................................................. 288 Information concerning John Huang’s whereabouts .............................. 359 Kanjorski, Hon. Paul E., a Representative in Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, photograph of John Huang .............................................. 290 Landon, Joseph Raymond, Jr.: Depostion of ............................................................................................... 76 Exhibits from deposition ........................................................................... 89 Lantos, Hon. Tom, a Representative in Congress from the State of Cali- fornia, letter dated October 8, 1997 ............................................................ 134 Mica, Hon. John L., a Representative in Congress from the State of Florida, exhibit 110 ....................................................................................... 181 Wang, David: Deposition of .............................................................................................. 186 Exhibits from deposition ........................................................................... 217 Waxman, Hon. Henry A., a Representative in Congress from the State of California: Bank of China annual report ................................................................... 367 Chart referring to John Huang as Charlie Trie’s DNC contact ............ 13 Minority staff report ................................................................................. 306 (III) VerDate Sep 04 2002 16:54 Sep 20, 2002 Jkt 081028 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 W:\DISC\44833 44833 VerDate Sep 04 2002 16:54 Sep 20, 2002 Jkt 081028 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 W:\DISC\44833 44833 CONDUIT PAYMENTS TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1997 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10 a.m., in room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Dan Burton (chairman of the committee) presiding. Present: Representatives Burton, Hastert, Morella, Shays, Cox, McHugh, Horn, Mica, McIntosh, Souder, Shadegg, Sununu, Ses- sions, Pappas, Snowbarger, Barr, Portman, Waxman, Lantos, Owens, Kanjorski, Condit, Maloney, Barrett, Norton, Fattah, Cummings, Kucinich, Blagojevich, Davis of Illinois, Tierney, Turn- er, Allen, and Ford. Staff present: Kevin Binger, staff director; Richard Bennett, chief counsel; William Moschella, deputy counsel and parliamentarian; Butch Hodgson, chief investigator; Daniel R. Moll, deputy staff di- rector; Judith McCoy, chief clerk; Teresa Austin, assistant clerk/ calendar clerk; Robin Butler, office manager; Will Dwyer, director of communications; Ashley Williams, deputy director of communica- tions; Barbara Comstock, chief investigative counsel; Robert Rohrbaugh, James C. Wilson, Tim Griffin, and Uttam Dhillon, sen- ior investigative counsels; Dave Bossie, oversight coordinator; Kristi Remington, Alicemary Leach, Bill Hanka, and David Kass, investigative counsels; Jim Schumann, John Irving, and Jason Fos- ter, investigators; Phil Larsen, investigative consultant; Carolyn Pritts, administrative investigative assistant; David Jones and John Mastranadi, investigative staff assistants; Phil Schiliro, mi- nority staff director; Phil Barnett, minority chief counsel; Kenneth Ballen, minority chief investigative counsel; Agnieszka Fryszman, Christopher Lu, Matthew Joseph, Andrew McLaughlin, David Sadkin, Michael Yang, Michael Yeager, minority counsels; Harry Gossett and Mark Stephenson, minority professional staff mem- bers; Ellen Rayner, minority chief clerk; Becky Claster, Jean Gosa, Andrew Su, and Amy Wendt, minority staff assistants; and Sheri- dan Pauker, minority research assistant. Mr. BURTON. The committee will come to order. Would the television cameras recede a little bit? And when we get through with our opening statements, at the request of the counsel for the witnesses, we will ask the television cameras to leave the room. Good morning. A quorum being present, the Committee on Gov- ernment Reform and Oversight will