"I am not a crook"
John Kerry political cartoon.
Aug. 31, 2004...
Kerry’s a crook
Talon News is reporting that Sen. John Kerry is guilty of taking
foreign contributions:
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates government
corruption, has released declassified documents which they say shows that
Democrat presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry accepted improper campaign
contributions during his 1996 reelection bid. In exchange, Judicial Watch
says Kerry helped arrange meetings between Chinese aerospace executives and
U.S. Government officials.
The heavily redacted FBI documents show that Johnny Chung, who plead guilty
to two violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act and other charges,
funneled approximately $20,000 to the Clinton/Gore '96 reelection campaign
and an undisclosed, smaller amount to Sen. John Kerry.
According to Newsweek Magazine, Kerry received $10,000 at the Beverly Hills
fundraiser held less than one month before the election. In return,
according to Newsweek, Kerry helped Hong Kong businesswoman Liu Chaohying by
arraigning a meeting between Chaohying and a senior Securities and Exchange
(SEC) official in order to get Chaohying's company listed on the U.S. Stock
Exchange.
It was later disclosed that Chaohying was also a lieutenant colonel in the
Communist China's Peoples Liberation Army. It was Chaohying who controlled a
Hong Kong bank account through which the money was routed.
During the same time period, Kerry traveled to Beijing on a "U.S. trade
mission organized and sponsored by a private corporation." Paul Marcus, the
head of Boston Capital & Technology, traveled with Kerry on the trip.
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