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 For Immediate Release
Oct 30, 2000 Contact: Press Office
202-646-5172


JOHN HUANG TO BE RE-DEPOSED ON NOVEMBER 6, 2000

4-Year Anniversary of First Deposition

When Huang Ran from U.S. Marshals, Chinagate Scandal Erupted in October, 1996

(Washington, DC) In Judicial Watch’s lawsuit against the Clinton-Gore Commerce Department, which uncovered the sale of seats on trade missions in violation of U.S. law, discovery has been continuing to uncover the full extent of obstruction of justice and perjury that has taken place to date. In this regard, John Huang – the suspected Chinese agent who ran from U.S. Marshals trying to serve him with a subpoena in October, 1996, sparking the ever growing Chinagate scandal – had previously been deposed by Judicial Watch on two other occasions but had invoked the 5th Amendment nearly 2,000 times. When, for instance, Huang was asked if he passed classified information to the Chinese, he took the Fifth. This caused the liberal columnist Christopher Hitchens to declare a “new indoor record.”

In the intervening years, Judicial Watch, pursuant to the Court’s orders of December 22, 1998, has been attempting to determine who was responsible for document suppression and false testimony, as well as locate missing documents. Some of these documents, which were first seen in an ostrich-skin portfolio of the late Clinton-Gore Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, as testified to by Nolanda Hill, show that indeed trade mission seats were sold for campaign contributions. Ms. Hill, who was a close confidante of Brown, not only fingered the Clinton-Gore White House in this illegal scheme, but specific individuals, including but not limited to Hillary Rodham Clinton, Harold Ickes, Alexis Herman, John Huang, and the President and Vice President. Now that John Huang has received immunity, he may no longer invoke his 5th Amendment privilege and that is the reason he is being re-deposed at this time. Later testimony by a high-level Commerce Department official, Sonya Stewart, has confirmed a huge Clinton-Gore Administration cover-up. Huang’s deposition was set for November 6, 2000 by Magistrate-Judge John M. Facciola.

“Mr. Huang continues to be at the center of the Chinagate scandal, and his testimony, truthful or not, will be most elucidating and important. If Mr. Huang lies at this deposition, he can still be prosecuted for perjury,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.

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