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U.S. Pays for Clinton-Riady-China Connection
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/1/31/185632.shtml

By Charles R. Smith
"SOFTWAR" - softwar@us.net


Bill Clinton shares a close financial relationship with Moctar
Riady, the Indonesian billionaire owner of the Lippo Group.
According to testimony before Sen. Fred Thompson, the Lippo Group
is in fact a joint venture of China Resources, a trading and
holding company "wholly owned" by the Chinese communist
government and used as a front for espionage operations.

In 1993, before Bill Clinton was sworn into office, Lippobank
Vice Chairman John Huang sought out DNC chairman Ron Brown. John
Huang, a major Riady backed Clinton fundraiser, sought to leave
his six-figure job at Lippo to work as an underpaid U.S.
government employee under Brown.

In a Jan. 1993 letter addressed to DNC headquarters, John Huang
wrote to Brown for a meeting with Lippo CEO Moctar Riady. The
letter was obtained from the U.S. Commerce Department using the
Freedom of Information Act.

"Daer Ron," wrote Huang in a poorly written letter filled with
broken English. "Congratulations for great performance during
yesterday Senate hearing. I was watching it in the Senate
Russell Building and came away with the strong feeling that you
will do an outstanding job as the Secretary of the Department of
Commerce in the coming years."

"I was trying to reach you. But there were too many people there
and I was not successful to do it," noted Huang. "What I really
want to do is to identify a convenient time in the coming week to
arrange a meeting between you and Dr. Moctar Riady, our Group
Chairman."

Shortly after the letter, Huang took a pay-cut, entered his new
position at the U.S. Commerce Department and accepted a huge
bonus check from the Lippo Group. It was during his stay at
Commerce that Huang received 37 secret briefings with the CIA.

In August 1994, CIA agents attended the "TPCC" or "Trade Policy
Coordinating Committee" meeting with John Huang. The subject of
the CIA meeting was U.S. government financed trade deals that
contained "first family involvement" or illegal payments made to
relatives of then Indonesian dictator Suharto.

According to documents obtained using the Freedom of Information
Act, one project - the Edison/GE coal fired "Paiton" power plant
- had problems with a $50 million dollar payment to Suharto's
youngest daughter, Titek Prabowo and her brother-in-law, Hashim
Djojohadikusumo. The power plant had encountered difficulties
with financing because the "Asian Development Bank (ADB)" knew it
contained money for a Suharto family member. Directly after
meeting with the CIA, Huang proceeded to place a three-hour call
to his former employer, the Lippo Group.

The newly released Commerce Department documents show that Huang,
James Riady, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, and "brother-in-law"
Hashim all met together in November 1994 - after Huang made the
long distance phone call to Lippo in August. The meeting took
place inside Indonesia and was sponsored by James Riady and
Hashim Djojohadikusumo.

Directly after that meeting, Bill Clinton endorsed the Edison
project and he signed a trade agreement to supply Indonesia with
electric power using U.S. taxpayer loans. The trade agreement
was worth billions to U.S. corporations such as Mission Energy
and General Electric.

"As markets expand, as information flows, the roots of an open
society will grow and strengthen and contribute to stability,"
stated President Clinton during the 1994 signing in Jakarta.

It is no co-incidence that the Lippo Group was also Hashim's
financial backer in his sulfur-free coal mine. Hashim obtained a
no-cut, no-bid contract to supply the coal to the Edison/GE
Paiton power plant. According to State Department cables,
Hashim's no-bid contract was characterized the "Achilles Heel" of
the power plant, forcing the Paiton plant to sell electricity at
a huge loss.

In the end, the Suharto corruption quietly killed the $50 million
financing and the Asian Development Bank refused to make the
instant loan to Suharto's daughter. Lippo partner Edison Mission
Energy convinced the Clinton administration to financially back
the project. In 1995, the Brown led Commerce Department found
financing for the power plant through the U.S. taxpayer.

In April 1995, The Export-Import Bank of Japan, the Export-Import
Bank of the United States, the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation ("OPIC") of the United States, and eight commercial
banks provided $1.82 billion in limited recourse project debt to
Edison's Paiton project. According to State Department cable's,
the financial support by OPIC was not without risk.

"OPIC's (Overseas Private Investment Corporation) combined
exposure in Indonesia is close to USD 1 billion, or 5 percent of
OPIC's global exposure, all in the electric power sector. As
such, resolution of potential insurance claims and/or actions
could result in 'an adverse material impact' on OPIC finances,"
notes the cable from the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia.

Despite being faced with a possible bailout due to huge losses,
OPIC continued to back power deals inside Indonesia. The
Commerce documents note that during the Clinton years, Indonesian
dictator Suharto contracted for 26 U.S. taxpayer sponsored power
projects while his impoverished nation could afford only one such
plant.

According to State Department documents, Unocal, Calenergy and El
Paso Energy were all subject to "corruption, collusion and
nepotism" in several other billion dollar power plant deals with
the Suharto government. One State Department cable included an
entire section titled "Dealing with unwanted partners".

"Unocal executives told resources officer that the firm is close
to reaching a deal with its partner, PT Nusamba (controlled by
former President Soeharto crony Bob Hasan) to sever ties in two
production sharing contracts (PSC) in East Kalimantan and East
Java," notes another State Department cable.

"According to Unocal, Nusamba put USD 20 million into Gunung
Salak, and it would be difficult, due to the financial
structuring of the deal, to undo the partnership."

The U.S. government documents show that from the gas pump to the
electric outlet, every global consumer pays for corruption inside
the energy industry. The state Indonesian Power Company PLN
estimated that it lost over $18 billion in total from Suharto
corruption inside power plant contracts.

For example, in April 1996 U.S. Ambassador Barry wrote, "Java
Power Company has obtained a USD 1.7 billion financing package
for its 2 X 610 coal fired Paiton Swasta II power plant."

"Java Power Company is 50 percent owned by Siemens Power, 35
percent Powergen PLC of the UK and 15 percent by PT Bumiperitwi
Tatapradipta. The latter is a subsidiary of the Bimantara Group
controlled by Bambang Trihatmodjo, President Soeharto's second
son," wrote Barry.

How much "corruption, collusion and nepotism" remains hidden
inside the U.S. energy bill may never be known. Even the largest
energy producers, such as Exxon were not above paying off
Suharto. According to documents found in John Huang's office,
Exxon's $34 billion dollar Natuna sea gas deal with Indonesia was
laced with "first family involvement". A 2001 Freedom of
Information response from the U.S. Commerce Department noted that
the exact amount of money that Exxon paid to the Suharto regime
must remain secret.

In 1996 President Clinton issued an executive order creating the
1.7 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in
Utah, rendering the "low sulfur" coal deposit off limits for
commercial mining. The move, for all practical purposes, gave
Beijing control of the world's only sulfur free coal through its
Lippo Group partner.

In 1999 the Edison Paiton project was declared illegal using many
of the documents discovered and cited in this article. Today, the
Paiton electric power plant is silent, closed after an audit
revealed $280 million missing. Indonesia cannot afford and does
not need the coal fired electric power plant in east Java.

America too is suffering. The California taxpayer is being asked
to bail out some of the very same energy companies that also paid
billions in illegal deals to the corrupt Suharto regime. The
U.S. consumer is also stuck, paying staggering bills for electric
power, while stockholders suffer losses in the faltering energy
companies.

In 1999, John Huang pled guilty to Federal charges of making
illegal political contributions to the Clinton/Gore campaign.
John Huang took the Fifth Amendment more than two thousand times
when asked by Larry Klayman of Judicial Watch if he had ties to
Chinese intelligence.

The son of Lippo founder Moctar Riady, James Riady also recently
pled guilty for passing illegal donations to the Clinton/Gore
political campaigns. Riady's plea, however, is pending approval
by the new Attorney General. Riady's plea includes the promise
to tell all.

In the 1990s, agents working for the communist Chinese MID or
Military Intelligence Department penetrated the American White
House at the highest level. China Resources investments in Lippo
grew during the course of the Clinton administration, coinciding
directly with the illegal six-figure Lippo contributions to
Clinton's cash machine. The money lines between Beijing and Bill
Clinton all meet at an unused electric power plant in east Java.

The Clinton power bill has come due.


FOIA Documents - (MUST SEE)
http://www.softwar.net/lippo.html
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[WHO WACO] Justice Department investigation should target UT
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/whowaco.htm

As best as I can find it was Bernard Rapoport who sells all
the life insurance to Teamsters Union members and is of
course connected to the Chicago Mafia, Dan
Rostenkowski, Hillary Clinton, Hubbell, Dan Lasater,
Mochtar Riady, John Huang, the Chinese Communist and
the whole Opium-China-CIA connection going back I guess
to the Boxer rebellion.
[snip]
http://www.konformist.com/vault/wacodrug.htm 

Charles R. Smith