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| Jul 28, 1997 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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JUDICIAL WATCH HAS PROOF THAT CHARLIE TRIE WORKED CLOSELY WITH CLINTON'S COMMERCE DEPARTMENT According to published reports, this week's Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearings will focus on illegal fundraiser and international fugitive Charlie Trie. Although Mr. Trie has publicly boasted that it would take "10 years" for Congressional investigators to find where he is hiding in China, Judicial Watch has in recent days uncovered the following facts that prove Mr. Trie's links to the Clinton Administration's Commerce Department -- the root of the campaign finance scandal: · Charlie Trie met frequently with former Deputy Assistant Commerce Secretary Jude Kearney in Kearney's office at the Commerce Department. During these meetings, Kearney likely had classified documents in his office. Mr. Kearney was a close confidante of deceased Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and is a friend of President Clinton from Arkansas. · Mr. Kearney faxed to Mr. Trie's Little Rock office the schedule for a Department of Commerce trade mission to China. Mr. Trie had earlier bragged that he was setting up a dinner in Beijing for Brown. During this trip to China, Brown, Lippo, and the Chinese government negotiated a billion-dollar power project. · While working at Commerce, former Assistant Commerce Secretary and Director General of United States Foreign and Commercial Service Lauri Fitz-Pegado, a close advisor of Brown's at Commerce, had lunch with Trie in Hong Kong and socialized with him in Washington, D.C. Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman stated: "It is clear that Commerce, along with the White House and Democratic National Committee, was at the center of the Clinton Administration's illegal activities." Klayman is providing gavel-to-gavel in depth analysis on National Empowerment Television's (NET) coverage of the Senate campaign finance hearings. |
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