1998 0310 - Senate (Report) - INVESTIGATION OF ILLEGAL OR IMPROPER ACTIVITIES IN CONNECTION WITH 1996 FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGNS, FINAL REPORT OF THE
COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS - Senate UNITED STATES SENATE - TOGETHER WITH ADDITIONAL AND MINORITY VIEWS - Volume 4 of 6
(p4817) - July 30, 1996 Jefferson Hotel event, Washington, DC
In addition to the President and other DNC officials, attendees at the event, many of whom brought spouses and children, included James Riady of the Lippo Group,266 his wife Aileen, and three prominent Taiwanese businessmen: Eugene T.C. Wu, chairman of the Shin Kong Group, a conglomerate that includes Taiwan's second-largest life insurance company; Sen Jong (Ken) Hsui, president of Prince Motors Co. in Taipei and a former member of the central committee of Taiwan's Kuomintang party; and James L.S. Lin, a
Taiwanese business associate of Wu.267 Hsui, who has U.S. residency status, contributed $150,000 to the DNC which has been attributed to this event.268
Other contributions attributed to this event were from Jessica Elnitiarta's Panda Investments; Loh Sun International, a Los Angeles firm that imports Chinese cigarettes to the U.S.; and Edmund Pi of Hacienda Heights, California.269 In total, this event took in $259,000 270 - far short of expectations.271
⇒ Neither Wu nor Lin made contributions to the DNC in connection with this event, nor did anyone else who attended this event who was ineligible to contribute.
The question has been raised, however, as to why the President was dining at a DNC event with such a small group of individuals, many of whom were ineligible to contribute to the DNC.