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| For Immediate Release | |
| Oct 24, 1997 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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Further Evidence Reno/Freeh Have Been Doing Virtually Nothing An eyewitness reports that Federal Agents raided the Watergate apartment of key Clinton campaign finance scandal figure Charlie Trie earlier today. The raid came more than one year after the Clinton campaign finance scandal first broke, and long after Trie became an international fugitive from justice, hiding in the People's Republic of China. Trie first surfaced as a former Arkansas cafe owner who funneled more than $500,000 in suspicious and improper contributions to the legal defense fund set up to benefit Bill and Hillary Clinton and later assisted Chinese arms dealers to gain direct access to the White House and Bill Clinton. The timing of the raid is sure to puzzle many legal experts, and there is ample reason to suspect that the event may have been staged to placate criticism that the Reno/Freeh Justice Department has been doing virtually nothing. Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman noted that "The raid on Charlie Trie is laughably too little, too late. Trie and the evidence are likely long gone. By waiting a year to take what should have been a first step to protect evidence in any credible investigation of Trie's role in campaign finance abuses and possible violations of national security, the Clinton Justice Department might as well have called ahead and told Trie and his confederates that they were coming. Members of Congress are obviously afraid to confront the scandal of Janet Reno's partisan and inept management of the Justice Department and the abuses at the FBI under Louie Freeh, but the public is not to be fooled by these circuses. The American People demand the truth, and they are entitled to justice." |
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