CRONY RIADY INVITES CLINTON TO JOIN LIPPO BOARD
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CRONY RIADY INVITES CLINTON TO JOIN LIPPO BOARD This is one
segment of intelligence of several, in the "Far East Economic Review." The
following particular segment was near the end, should you care to view it at its
site. Riady featured heavily during the revelations of cronyism and illegal
campaign funds, a couple of years ago. He covertly donated tens of thousands
of dollars to Clinton's campaign. Also, remember the Escalante millions of
acres that was declared a National Monument in Utah--to in fact close off the
coal mining in that area, in reality. The low sulphur non polluting coal that is
mined only in that region of the U.S.? Well the Lippo Enterprise of Indonesia if
you will recall, got the contract to import that same quality coal, making us
totally dependent on foreign coal, a necessity for energy production in this
country. with the stroke of a pen, this criminal president via EO, ensured that
America will be dependent on foreign coal and other minerals.
Please see more details of the Riady/Clinton high crimes and misdemeanors
and Clinton's treason, in a radio transcript just below the article that follows. ac
http://www.feer.com/_0010_12/p08.html INTELLIGENCE Issue cover-dated
October 12, 2000 Riady Invites Clinton to Lippo Board Indonesian tycoon
James Riady has invited U.S.
President Bill Clinton to join the board of Lippo Group when he steps down
from office early next year, according to business people who have met Riady
in Jakarta recently. Riady has been telling business contacts in Jakarta that he
expects Clinton to accept, even though the U.S. president has been dogged by
allegations that Riady funnelled illegal foreign donations to Clinton's 1992 and
1996 election campaigns. A former Lippo Group employee reports that as far
back as the mid-1990's Riady was said to be trying to recruit Clinton to the
board as soon as he left office. Jakarta police are currently helping the U.S.
Justice Department in its investigation of the alleged campaign contributions.
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Excuse editorial mistakes. This is a partial two year old radio transcript of a
radio interview James (my husband) did. I have left it as is and only include the
Riady/Clinton discussion. ac "All that is needed for evil to prevail, is for good
men to do nothing." --
Edmund Burke Lets start our discussion with a somewhat unanswered
question:
Why would the President of the United States close off the most
environmentally friendly, continuous natural resource in the country. What I am
talking about is the new Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument in
Utah.
On September 18, 1996 President Clinton took the matter into his own hands
and created this national monument by executive order.
Within the boundaries can be found not only marvelous scenic vistas, but also
billions of barrels of oil, minerals, and most important of all, the highest quality
environmental, high compliance coal to be found anywhere in the world.
The coal fields are now locked up forever in the newly created national
monument in Utah. The prominent theory is that Clinton was buying
environmental votes.
Another look at his action makes that explanation seem unlikely, and the
possibility of selling out to foreign interests is being talked about more
frequently in the national press and national talk radio. It would also appear
that the Utah monument is only one symptom of a much bigger problem.
Now lets give you the statement of the Republican Senator from Utah.
"If that's true, then my gosh. And if some of the other allegations are true, that
these people were giving special favors to foreign lands for fund raising in a
presidential campaign, I mean that would be, that would blow any president out
of the White House," "I think you're going to find great ties to the mainland
Chinese, the People's Republic of China, and I think you're going to find that
they (China) represent them (Lippo) in some way," remarked Sen. Orrin Hatch
(R - UT).
Now let me give you President Clinton's statement after the event.
"I am concerned about a large coal mine proposed for the area. Mining jobs
are good jobs and mining is important to our national economy and to our
national security. But we can't have mines everywhere and we shouldn't have
mines that threaten our national treasures," All I can say is:
"Give me a Break"
So, with the stroke of a pen, this dictatorial president ensured that America will
be dependent on foreign coal and other minerals.
This despite pleas from Utah's governor and entire congressional delegation,
none of whom were consulted by the president prior to making the decision. All
of whom have threatened investigations and lawsuits.
Let me give you a few facts:
The Kporowitz coal field is the largest, undeveloped mine in the United States.
It has approximately 62 billion tons of low sulfur, clean burning, high
compliance coal.
It is one of the premier coal fields in the United States, perhaps the world,
according to Dr. Lee Allison, Utah State Geologist.
It is super compliance coal because it burns so cleanly that it beats the
requirements of the Clean Air Act. A fact that should make environmentalists
very happy. It also has a high BTU rating making it powerful enough to supply
Utah's power plants for the next 1,000 years.
The New York Times estimated the coal is worth over One trillion dollars.
Now, lets think about this Counties need for monument:
The effects of President Clinton's action on the people of Utah are devastating.
As many as 1,000 direct jobs are lost, plus a vast number from support services
that would have been attracted to the area. And this is just the economic boost
the rural Garfield County area needs.
Additionally, the school trust lands on which it is located will never produce the
much needed revenue the mine would have contributed to the state's school
children.
This nation suffers with the loss of billions in tax revenues, and a dependence
on foreign resources when we have what we need right here in our own country.
Of course the President offered to trade the school trust land for other land in
Utah, but that is impossible. There just isn't enough coal in Utah to equal or
even come close to the compensation now denied the schools.
Garfield County Commissioner Louise Liston made the following comments:
"You do not need to create that monument to preserve the land. There's almost
200 state and federal laws protecting it; thousands of federal regulations; law
suits that dictate what happens on federal lands. You did not need to create this
national monument to preserve that land,"
She also pointed out that there are billions of tons of environmentally friendly
coal, trillions of cubic feet of natural gas, billions of barrels of oil, and millions
of tons of zirconium and titanium - a strategic metal used by the Department of
Defense.
But because this land is now locked up, Liston pointed out that we now send our
young boys over to the Middle East to protect our oil interests there, when in
fact we should have no need to protect foreign resources.
By the way, the 1.7 million acres set aside in the executive order contains only
40 acres which would be impacted by the mining operation. Extensive impact
studies have shown that the mine could co-exist with virtually no disturbance to
the area.
Roger Holland, a geological consultant for the mine, said, "It could be in full
production right this moment and we wouldn't even know it was there. I think
that's something we need to address, that we can have both."
The coal and other minerals now locked away forever by President Clinton
place our nation in a situation where we are even more dependent on foreign
resources. We are already dependent on foreign oil, and now we must import
coal.
And so you might ask why. Why would the president sell out our ability to use
our own natural resources and make us dependent on foreign nations? Why?
Ask the Tampa Electric Company where it has now contracted to get it's high
compliance, environmentally friendly coal. The answer is a mine on the
Indonesian island of Kalleemanton.
It is the only mine currently producing this highest quality coal. Can you
imagine 400,000 tons of coal being transported all the way from Indonesia to
Tampa because President Clinton formed a national monument in Utah?
PT AA-daro Indonesia can. They are the owners of the Kalleemanton mine and
the new Indonesian Bulk Terminal it will be transported through.
The brilliant strategies and successful efforts of the world-wide environmental
movement have created a massive market for environmental coal, and right
now PT AA-daro Indonesia has a virtual international monopoly.
Well, such deals are not one-sided, so we must ask what if any benefit
President Clinton received from his actions. Suddenly many familiar names are
found tied together in a web that goes back at least to 1977 when President
Clinton was Arkansas Attorney General and he met James Riady for the first
time.
Now, lets talk about the cast of characters and some details.
Indonesian businessman Mock-tar Riady leads the Riady family business
which has included the Lippo banking group. He became a partner with Hillary
Clinton's old law firm boss, and the Stevens group banking company.
It all began in the late 1970s when Jimmy Carter's best friend and campaign
manager Bert Lance was forced out of the administration due to financial
scandal.
Lance had assets but needed someone to buy them to bail him out of trouble.
Mocktar Riady came to the rescue with the aid of the Stevens group in Little
Rock to facilitate the deal.
What was the Riady family doing in Little Rock in the first place? The Riady
family already owned the largest bank in S.E. Asia. They were billionaires. If
they wanted a banking tie to the U.S. wouldn't it make sense to team up with a
bank on the coast, in Los Angeles or San Francisco?
So we as the question: Why Little Rock?
During the 1980's the father and son Riady team actually worked, lived, and
invested in Arkansas. Mocktar, the father, is not a U.S. citizen and has moved
back to Jakarta.
James, his son, became a naturalized citizen and remained in the U.S. It was
apparently obvious to them that the up and coming Governor Bill Clinton was
presidential material.
John Wang, one of the Lippo group corporate officers, also lived in Arkansas,
and that's how they all got to know Bill and Hillary Clinton, Rose Law Firm
principles like Webster Hubbell, Bruce Lindsay, Vince Foster and many others.
The Riadys have not abandoned their links to Indonesia and leaders like
General Sue-hart-o. It is well known that the business practices in Indonesia
are far different than those in the U.S.
To succeed you must be Chinese and you must cut General Sue-hart-o in on the
deal.
Nor have they abandoned their business interests in S.E. Asia. In fact, the
Lippo Real Estate and banking interests have grown steadily during this
period. And as Bill Clinton made his bid for the presidency, General
Sue-hart-o's connections in Arkansas began to pay off.
Remember the results of the New Hampshire Primary back in 1992?
Bill Clinton bombed. James Carville has told the story of how he was paying
campaign bills on his own personal credit card. Then virtually everything
changed overnight as the result of a $3.5 million loan from the Stevens/Riady
owned Worthen Bank (now Boatmens) which enabled the campaign to turn
around, right from Arkansas.
Suddenly in the 1990s with the ascendency of the Clintons we also observe
many Clinton contacts from Little Rock being placed in positions dealing with
international relations and commerce, despite the fact none had any experience
in those areas.
Keep in mind that Indonesians operate differently than we do in this country.
To gain influence they do favors for the friends of the ones they are trying to
influence.
Now, Isn't it nice to have friends with money in Indonesia?
After the election, Ron Brown requested and received an appointment as
Secretary of Commerce, and John Wang was his deputy.
Wang has become a naturalized U.S. citizen and is granted a full security
clearance by the White House with no background check, despite complaints by
FBI Agent Gary Aldrich about security breaches.
Upon leaving the Lippo Group he also receives nearly $900,000 in severance.
Wang later moved on to the Democratic National Committee as it's chief
fund-raiser, and was granted a continued security clearance by the White
House, even though he was no longer a government employee.
Wang was one of the best fund-raisers the DNC ever had. About $1.5 million of
the vast millions he raised have been returned (likely with instructions on how
to funnel it back) after disclosures in the press pointed out the foreign source of
the funds.
It is estimated that more than half the funds in the DNC, the Clinton campaign,
and in the Clinton defense fund were all from Indonesian sources.
The most important aspect of all this is that Wang appears to have had other
activities while in the Commerce Department and at the DNC. Phone records
and other documents obtained by congressional investigative committees
reveal that Wang never stopped his involvement with Lippo or with foreign
entities.
Trade missions became a great way to raise funds, all at the direction of Wang.
Secretary Brown would take businessmen on foreign trade missions after
appropriate donations were made. Many different deals were put together in
various parts of the world, but there is one deal that is significant to the story of
the new Utah national monument.
Ed Luppberger, the CEO of Entergy Corporation with offices in New Orleans
and Little Rock funneled at least $330,000 to the DNC from 1994 to the
present.
Luppberger was included in a trade mission trip to China in 1995.
Lupp-berger had previous ties to the Clintons and Lippo.
During the trip to China he struck a deal worth billions. Entergy and Lippo
would jointly develop a coal-burning power plant in China, and Entergy was
made part of a consortium of companies building more such plants throughout
the Indonesian islands.
With arrangements made by Secretary Brown, Mission Energy in California
was given a third of the ownership. In a recent bid to construct a coal-burning
power plant, Mission Energy specified that the plant must burn imported coal.
Curious isn't it?
A more significant development is just coming to light in recent weeks.
You see, Lippo may not be the Lippo we think it is. It was sold in 1992 to China
Resources Incorporated.
According to the London Telegraph, China Resources Incorporated is well
known in intelligence circles as being owned by Chinese military intelligence.
All of which could mean that John Wang was working for Chinese military
intelligence at the time he was appointed to the U.S. Commerce Department.
This would explain the daily phone calls from Wang's office in Commerce to
Lippo and to Indonesian contacts, and it would also explain his efforts to
normalize relations with Vietnam and maintain Most Favored Nation status for
China.
Recent reports by the Washington Times and Associated Press indicate that
John Wang apparently violated conflict-of-interest laws by joining the
administration's Indonesia Advocacy-Finance Working Group as soon as he
went to work at the Commerce Department.
The federally backed projects of the group included several deals worth
mentioning Commerce documents identify the "Andrew Young project" as the
award to Law Environmental, Inc. of Atlanta for design of water, electrical,
telephone, and sewage at Lippo's multi-billion-dollar CarReeTa Bay Resort.
Andrew Young is the former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and former Atlanta
Mayor. Also negotiated by the working group was a $300 million partnership
between Lippo and Kmart Stores of Troy, Michigan.
Another partnership was arranged between Lippo Life and Protective Life
Corporation of Birmingham, Alabama. And a billion-dollar deal was struck
between J.C. Penney and Lippo Malls.
There are many who are suggesting that Wang may indeed have been a spy for
China. If not, it is at least very disturbing that he was given access to
significant information and had a top security clearance before and after his
employment at the Commerce Department.
A letter from Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor dated January 12, 1997
revealed information that implies our nation has been compromised.
Apparently Wang got a weekly intelligence briefing about China from the
Central Intelligence Agency. In fact, a review of Wang's appointment calendars
show that he made corresponding calls to his former employer, the Lippo
Group, after each CIA briefing.
What other deals for Indonesians have been made with the blessing of
President Clinton? A Thai businesswoman, Pauline Con-Chana-Luck, who
donated heavily visited the White House at least 26 times and brought other
Thai business executives to small coffee meetings with the president.
Long-time Clinton ally Charles Yah Lin Tree brought a Chinese arms dealer to
a meeting with the president. He also brought $640,000 to the Clinton defense
fund, which is really like giving money personally to the president for his
personal use.
The money came from a cult in Taiwan led by a woman who calls herself a
supreme being! It represents over one third of all the money in the fund, and it
was returned only because the press was about to reveal the story.
Prior to 1993 Tree operated a Little Rock restaurant frequented by Governor
Clinton. Now he has an international trade consulting firm - interesting rags to
riches story.
In fact, the Wall Street Journal reported a Hong Kong fund-raising event
headed by Tree and attended by Commerce Secretary Brown in October 1995.
The guests at the dinner were primarily from Hong Kong, Macau, and China.
They were asked to make donations to the Clinton Campaign by Tree, a direct
violation of federal law.
Clinton aides effectively conceded that coffee gatherings at the White House
during the residential campaign were designed to solicit financial and political
support from some of the wealthiest and most influential corporate executives
in the world.
Yet they, and the president, vehemently defend the practice. The fund-raising,
widely reported in the press, was not limited to coffees. It included the sale of
tennis and golf matches with the president, a night stay at the White House
complete with midnight tour led by the president, the sale of trips on Air Force
Once, and the ability to buy ones way into a trade mission where billion-dollar
deals might be struck with the help of the Commerce Department.
In 1993 President Clinton received a letter from the Riadys asking for
normalization of trade relations with Vietnam. I'm sure the request had nothing
to do with the fact that the Riadys were moving their $7 billion real estate and
investment firm into Vietnam.
Interestingly, President Clinton ended the trade embargo placed on Vietnam
30 years ago in 1994. Nice to have friends in high places. Or perhaps, nice to
have friends you've bought and paid for in high places.
Don't forget that President Clinton promised not to normalize relations with
Vietnam until every POW/MIA was accounted for during his initial campaign.
Isn't it interesting that the push for normalization of relations with Vietnam
began just days after John Wang became employed in the Commerce
Department? Wang began lobbying for the change of policy just days after his
new assignment, which would seem a clear conflict of interest considering his
former employer was also pushing for this.
Of course I'm sure it is only coincidence that Wang arranged for millions in
illegal campaign donations right at the time the Utah monument was
established.
DOWNLOAD AND READ PAUL WILCHER REPORT DATED MAY 21,
1993 TO JANET RENO ATTY WILCHER WAS FOUND DEAD ON JUNE
21, 1993 BY SARHA MCCLENDEN.
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Friday, 12-Jan-01 01:16:37
24.14.28.77 writes:
Riady Admits Illegally Funding Clinton
NewsMax.com
Friday, Jan. 12, 2001
Indonesian billionaire James Riady has agreed to pay a record
$8.6 million criminal fine for illegally funding Bill Clinton's 1992
presidential campaign, the Justice Department said Thursday
night.
According to the Associated Press and other wire services:
In a plea bargain filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles,
Riady agreed to plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy
for concealing foreign contributions, which are illegal in the U.S.
He will not face jail time.
The government's court filing said the goal of the contributions
was to buy influence for Lippo Group and LippoBank.
Riady is to surrender and come to the U.S. at an unspecified
future date - even though there is no extradition treaty between
Indonesia and the United States. Fox News reported he was
expected to fly from Indonesia to Los Angeles for a court
appearance Tuesday.
An FBI summary released last year said Democrat fund-raiser
John Huang, a Riady employee, reported that in 1992 Riady told
Clinton during a limousine ride that he wanted to raise $1 million
for his campaign. Huang pleaded guilty to a campaign financing
felony and has been cooperating with the government since
August 1999.
Last April, Clinton told federal investigators he did not have "a
specific recollection of what the conversation was, or this fact of
the car ride.'' He said all he could remember was seeing Riady
"sometime in '92 after I became the nominee,'' and that Riady
promised to help his campaign.
LippoBank California, a bank affiliated with Riady's Lippo
Group, agreed to plead guilty to 86 misdemeanor accounts
charging that its agents, Riady and Huang, made illegal foreign
campaign contributions from 1988 through 1994. Riady also
agreed to assist with the government's inquiry.
Riady is one of 26 people and two corporations so far charged
by Justice's campaign finance task force, established four years
ago.
The Ray Connection
A Justice Department official said that independent counsel
Robert Ray, who is investigating Clinton on other matters, was
consulted and indicated that the plea bargain was consistent
with the interests of his investigation, which does not include
campaign financing.
Ray's office has prosecuted former Justice official and Clinton
friend Webster Hubbell, and has looked into whether payments
to him, including $100,000 from Lippo Group after he resigned,
were designed to keep him from testifying against Clinton or his
wife, Hillary.
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Clinton Scandals
SOURCE:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/1/11/215311.shtml
How James Riady Makes Himself Indispensable (int'l
edition)
They call him Boy Wonder--a favored son in a nation that has turned against its crony
class.
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