1997 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION WITNESSES   

 
   

The following witnesses testified before the Committee:

Wednesday, July 9, 1997: Richard Sullivan, former Finance Director, Democratic National Committee

Thursday, July 10, 1997: Richard Sullivan, former Finance Director, Democratic National Committee

Tuesday, July 15, 1997:
Juliana Utomo, former employee of Hip Hing Holdings, a Lippo Group Entity
Thomas Hampson, Summary witness on Lippo Group
Harold Arthur, Director of LippoBank and Former CEO of LippoBank
James Alexander, former CEO of LippoBank

Wednesday, July 16, 1997:
Gary Christopherson, former Associate Director of White House Personnel
Paul Buskirk, current Acting Director, Office of Security, Department of Commerce
Jeffrey Garten, former Under Secretary for International Trade, Department of Commerce
Robert Gallagher, Director, Office of Intelligence Liaison, Department of Commerce
John Dickerson, John Huang's CIA intelligence briefer at Department of Commerce
William McNair, Central Intelligence Agency

Thursday, July 17, 1997:
Paula Green, former Administrative Assistant, Stephens Inc.
John Cobb, Counsel to Special Investigation
The Honorable Timothy Hauser, Deputy Under Secretary for International Trade, Department of Commerce
William Ginsberg, former Chief of Staff for Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown

Wednesday, July 23, 1997
Benton L. Becker, Counsel for Ambrous Tung Young and Young Brothers Development (USA)
Michael E. Baroody, Former President, National Policy Forum.

Thursday, July 24, 1997
Fred Volcansek, Former Consultant for the National Policy Forum.
Haley R. Barbour, Former Chairman, National Policy Forum; Former Chairman, Republican National Committee.

Friday, July 25, 1997
Donald K. Stern, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
Richard Richards, President of Young Brothers Develpment (USA); Former Republican National Committee Chairman.

Tuesday, July 29, 1997
Jerome Campane, Special Agent, FBI -- summary witness on Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie
*Yue F. Chu, political contributer connected to Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie/Ng Lap Seng
*Xi Ping Wang, political contributer connected to Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie/Ng Lap Seng
*Testified with Immunity

Wednesday, July 30, 1997
Michael H. Cardozo, Executive Director of the Presidential Legal Expense Trust

Thursday, July 31, 1997
Terry Lenzner, Founded the Investigative Group, Inc. (IGI)
Loren Berger, Senior Investigator for the Investigative Group, Inc. (IGI)
Zhi Hua Dong, Member, Ching Hai Meditation Society

Thursday, September 4, 1997
Venerable Man-Ho, Temple Administrative Officer
Venerable Yi Chu, Temple Treasurer
Venerable Man Ya, Nun who gave to DNC and was reimbursed

Friday, September 5, 1997
David Strauss, Former Chief of Staff to Vice President Gore
Michael L. Mitoma, Former Mayor of Carson, California

Tuesday, September 9, 1997
Donald L. Fowler, Former Chairman, Democratic National Committee

Wednesday, September 10, 1997
Joseph E. Sandler, General Counsel, Democratic National Committee

Thursday, September 11, 1997
Samuel R. Berger, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Tuesday September 16, 1997
Scheduled to testify:
Dr. Karl Jackson, Director, Southeast Asia Program at Johns Hopkins University; President of U.S.-Thailand Business Council
Beth E. Dozoretz, Managing Trustee, Democratic National Committee
Clarke Southall Wallace, White House Coffee Attendee
Rawlien Soberano, Co-Founder & Vice President of Asian-American Business Round Table

Wednesday, September 17, 1997
Sheila Heslin, Former National Security Council Staffer

Thursday, September 18, 1997
Roger E. Tamraz, Private Businessman
John Carter, Former Department of Energy Official
Charles Kyle Simpson, Department of Energy Official
Jerome Campane, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Special    Investigator, Special Investigation on Campaign Finance.

Friday, September 19, 1997
R. Warren Meddoff, Former Director of Governmental Affairs for Bukkehave, Inc.

Tuesday, September 23, 1997
Thomas E. Mann, Director of Governmental Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, September 24, 1997
Ann McBride, President, Common Cause
Donald J. Simon, General Counsel, Common Cause
Norman J. Ornstein, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute (Testimony continued)
Thomas E. Mann, Director of Governmental Studies, Brookings Institution (Testimony continued)
Douglas C. Berman, Member of the Board, The Campaign Reform Project
Becky Cain, President, League of Women Voters
Edward H. Crane, President, CATO Institute
Curtis Gans, Director, Committee for the Study of the American Electorate
Ellen S. Miller, Executive Director, Public Campaign
Leo Troy, Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, Rutgers University, Newark, New    Jersey

Thursday, September 25, 1997
Daniel R. Ortiz, Professor, School of Law, University of Virginia
Anthony Corrado, Professor of Government, Colby College
Trevor Potter, Attorney, Former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
Lawrence M. Noble, General Counsel, Federal Election Commission
Burt Neuborne, Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law
Roger Pilon, Senior Fellow, CATO Institute

Tuesday, September 30, 1997
The Honorable Nancy Kassebaum Baker, Former Senator (R-KS)
The Honorable Walter F. Mondale, Former Vice President of the United States

Tuesday, October 7, 1997
Harold M. Ickes, Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Clinton

Wednesday, October 8, 1997
Harold M. Ickes, Former Deputy Chief of Staff to President Clinton

Thursday, October 9, 1997
Mark F. Thomann, former Midwest Finance Director, Democratic National Committee
Richard L. Sullivan, former Finance Director, Democratic National Committee

Thursday, October 23, 1997
Steven Smith, White House Communications Agency
Chief Petty Officer Charles McGrath, White House Communications Agency
Colonel Charles Campbell, White House Communications Agency

Wednesday, October 29, 1997
Richard Jenrette, Chairman and CEO of the Equitable Life Insurance Company
Lanny A. Breuer, Special Counsel to the President
Michael X. Imbroscio, Associate Counsel to the President
Charles Ruff, Chief White House Counsel

Thursday, October 30, 1997
Paul F. Eckstein, Esquire, Partner with Brown & Bain, Phoenix, Arizona
The Honorable Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior


 
 

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