Log Cabin Democrat: Investigators turn up first evidence of Clinton link to foreign money 6/9/98
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Tuesday, June 9, 1998Investigators turn up first evidence of Clinton link to foreign money
Last modified at 11:54 a.m. on Tuesday, June 9, 1998
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 1992 memo telling Bill Clinton that international banker James Riady had ''flown all the way from Indonesia'' to make a six-figure donation and take a car ride with the Democratic presidential nominee is providing investigators fresh evidence of a foreign money trail.
Riady, the Indonesian billionaire, wrote out a half million dollars in checks to the Democratic Party after the five-minute car ride scheduled with Clinton in August 1992 just weeks after he won the Democratic nomination.
Bank statements and memos reviewed by investigators show one of the 1992 donations from a Riady company was directly covered by foreign money. The rest were drawn on a personal account that appears to have been replenished -- before and after the donations -- with foreign funds. Some money went to the Democratic Party's accounts that directly help federal candidates.
Riady ''will be giving $100,000 to this event and has the potential to give much more,'' Clinton was told in a memo Aug. 14, 1992, that advised he would share a car ride that day with Riady.
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