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The Fifth Season
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作者：The Fifth Season 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
有意思，美国这一次的商务部长倒是成了中国的“胡润榜”- 是非不少！
"Meanwhile, President Obama on Tuesday issued a waiver of a 1999 defense export-control law that will allow the transfer of U.S. high-technology goods to China. Mr. Obama stated in a notice to Congress that fine-grain graphite and aircraft composite gear will not "measurably improve [China's] missile and space launch capabilities."
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"As for the Clinton-era donations that Mr. Locke received from sources connected to the Chinese influence-peddling investigation, Mr. LaBolt said the nominee had long since refunded the money and was never implicated in any wrongdoing by congressional or Justice Department investigators. "
"------ fundraisers like John Huang, Ted Sioeng and others who were identified during the 1990s investigation. That probe looked into whether Chinese government cash was illegally routed into Democratic coffers during President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign.
VIEW: Campaign contribution check from 1996.
REPORT: Details of the POTUS Asian dinner event and political contributions "
"Mr. Huang pleaded guilty in 1999 ---. --- Mr. Locke's donations were not mentioned in the court case."
"Mr. Sioeng fled the U.S. in the 1990s after the FBI began investigating. "
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EXCLUSIVE: Commerce pick tied to China cash
Bill Gertz (Contact) and Jerry Seper (Contact)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Buzz up!EXCLUSIVE:
Commerce Secretary nominee Gary Locke, whose job would include approving sensitive exports to China, has performed legal work for companies doing business with Beijing and was forced to refund several political donations that he received in the 1990s from key figures in a Chinese influence-buying investigation.
The former Washington state governor is expected to face questions about both issues during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Senate aides and an Obama administration official familiar with the vetting told The Washington Times.
Mr. Locke was the first Chinese-American to become governor when Washington state voters elected him in 1996, and he served two terms. Since leaving the governor's mansion in 2005, Mr. Locke has been working with the Seattle law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP as part of its China practice, which has offices in Shanghai.
On its Web page, www.dwt.com , the law firm says it has represented several state-run Chinese companies, including China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines and China Shipping as well as the Bank of China, BankOne, Boeing Co., Freightliner, Ford Motor Co., General Electric Capital Corp. and Microsoft Corp.
John A. Shaw, who held senior posts at the Defense, State and Commerce departments overseeing export controls and technology transfers from 1992 to 2004, said senators should question nominees about their past fundraising and views on high-technology transfers to nations such as China.
"Commerce has total control over all dual-use technology and if there is a decision to open the commercial floodgates to China, Locke will be able to steamroll any military concerns coming from State and Defense," Mr. Shaw said in an interview.
Meanwhile, President Obama on Tuesday issued a waiver of a 1999 defense export-control law that will allow the transfer of U.S. high-technology goods to China. Mr. Obama stated in a notice to Congress that fine-grain graphite and aircraft composite gear will not "measurably improve [China's] missile and space launch capabilities."
Cabinet troubles
As governor of the state of Washington and later as an attorney representing U.S. companies, Gary Locke opened markets and created opportunities for American businesses overseas critical experience for any commerce secretary," Mr. LaBolt said.
"We are confident that Governor Locke will be able to continue to advocate on behalf of American businesses and workers while at the same time adhering to the administrations ethics policy," he said.
As for the Clinton-era donations that Mr. Locke received from sources connected to the Chinese influence-peddling investigation, Mr. LaBolt said the nominee had long since refunded the money and was never implicated in any wrongdoing by congressional or Justice Department investigators.
Mr. Locke is Mr. Obama's third choice for commerce secretary. New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, withdrew from consideration after it was revealed that a grand jury is investigating illegal contracting in the state, and Sen. Judd Gregg, New Hampshire Republican, withdrew over policy disputes with the administration.
Mr. Locke is not a registered lobbyist at Davis Wright, but the firm has made millions lobbying for several U.S. companies and also is registered as a foreign lobbyist.
Bad company
Edward Timperlake, a former congressional investigator who worked on the 1990s fundraising probe, said the Senate should examine Mr. Locke's ties to fundraisers like John Huang, Ted Sioeng and others who were identified during the 1990s investigation. That probe looked into whether Chinese government cash was illegally routed into Democratic coffers during President Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign.
VIEW: Campaign contribution check from 1996.
REPORT: Details of the POTUS Asian dinner event and political contributions
"The players connected to any examination of Locke and his confirmation are Triad gangsters and Chinese military agents," Mr. Timperlake said in an interview.
The Pentagon's last annual report on China's military warned that China "continues a systematic effort to obtain dual-use and military technologies from abroad through legal and illegal commercial transactions."
It stated that Immigration and Customs Enforcement rated China's aggressive and wide-ranging espionage as "the leading threat to U.S. technology."
Mr. Huang was a Chinese-born employee of Indonesia's Lippo Bank, who went to work for the Commerce Department and also became a major Democratic Party fundraiser, collecting $3.4 million nearly half of which had to be returned to donors because of suspicions that the money came from the Chinese government.
He sponsored several fundraisers for Mr. Locke in 1996, raising more than $30,000.
Mr. Huang pleaded guilty in 1999 in a deal with U.S. prosecutors to illegally giving $2,500 to Los Angeles mayoral candidate Michael Woo in 1993 and $5,000 to a California political group that raised money for Democratic candidates. Mr. Locke's donations were not mentioned in the court case.
Mr. Sioeng, an Indonesian businessman who has ties to the Chinese government, also supplied funds to Mr. Locke through intermediaries, according to a congressional report on the campaign finance investigation. Mr. Sioeng fled the U.S. in the 1990s after the FBI began investigating.
He was never formally charged in the case, but congressional testimony from senior U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials, including Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, identified him as a Chinese agent. They told a Senate committee that there was credible intelligence that Mr. Sioeng acted on behalf of China to influence U.S. elections with campaign contributions.
A spokesman for Mr. Sioeng denied the allegations at the time.
Records show Mr. Sioeng's bank account got wire transfers of more than $2 million from two Hong Kong holding companies at the same time that he was contributing to Mr. Clinton's re-election campaign.
Under investigation
According to a 1998 House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform report, Mr. Locke received $8,700 in contributions from Sioeng family members, business associates and employees. The committee found no evidence showing that Mr. Locke knowingly accepted illegal donations from Mr. Sioeng's family and associates but outlined "serious questions regarding some of the contributions and their apparent violation of Federal campaign funding laws."
It is illegal for a foreign national to contribute to a U.S. candidate. Mr. Locke told the House committee that he met Mr. Sioeng twice but had no knowledge that donations were funneled from abroad, according to the report.
"Committee investigators identified eight contributions from Sioeng family members and associates totaling $8,700 around July 29, 1996 to Gary Locke's 1996 campaign for governor of Washington State," the House report said. "Committee investigators traced the funding of five of the contributions totaling $5,500 to a foreign bank account in Hong Kong that the Committee has associated with Ted Sioeng."
Four other payments totaling $4,400 appeared to be illegal "straw donor" conduit payments by employees of companies that the Sioeng family either owned or had business ties, according to the House committee report.
A separate 1997 Senate report of the Governmental Affairs Committee said Mr. Sioeng and his family made $2,200 in contributions to Mr. Locke's campaign for governor. The report also contained photos of Mr. Locke, Mr. Clinton and Mr. Huang together at a May 1996 Democratic fundraising event in Washington, D.C., which had the goal of raising $1 million, and together at a separate May 1996 fundraiser also in Washington with Mr. Clinton and Mr. Sioeng.
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美国自己的网友的评论，节选如下：
Mr. Locke declined to comment while his nomination is pending. White House spokesman Ben LaBolt said Mr. Locke predominately worked for law clients who were U.S. companies doing business in China and the administration is confident he can avoid any conflicts of interests.
By: lowlife
setrock: If you don't these comments, why don't you go to Huffington or China? You're getting on my nerves!!!
March 18, 2009 at 8:19 p.m. | Mark as Offensive
By: porchhound
Rated 5/5
ANOTHER CHINESE SHILL PROVIDED BY THE DEMOCRATS...Clinton already gave them the supercomputer to provide pinpoint accuracy for their long range missiles...what does OBAMA have in mind??? CHANGE WE CAN BE SCARED OF!!!
March 18, 2009 at 4:10 p.m. | Mark as Offensive
By: setrock
I am going to send each of you .50 cents so that you all can call someone who cares about the crap each of you spew out of your stinkholes! lmao at the stupidity displayed on these blogs! keep fuming cause thats all you got!
March 18, 2009 at 2:15 p.m. | Mark as Offensive
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ZT http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/18/exclusive-commerce-pick-tied-china-cash/
ZT http://www.dwt.com/
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美国这一次的商务部长倒是成了中国的“胡润榜”- 是非不少！
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ZT 因中国资金受牵连 美国会审查骆家辉与中国关系（图）
京港台时间：2009/3/19 消息来源：中国网 网友评论 6 条 注意:新闻源于各大新闻媒体，内容不代表本站立场！欢迎留言打假！
【美国《华盛顿时报》网站3月18目报道】题：商务部长被提名人因中国资金受牵连
商务部长——其职权包括批准向中国出口敏感产品—被提名人骆家辉曾为多家与北京有生意往来的公司从事法律工作。他还曾被迫退还在上世纪90年代收到的数笔政治捐款，因为捐款人严重卷入—起有关中国花钱购买影响力的案件调查工作。
奥巴马政府一名熟悉有关审查程序的官员对记者说，据预计，这位前华盛顿州州长将在18日举行的任职审议听证会上被问及上述两个问题。
美国华盛顿州前华裔州长骆家辉2月25日获奥巴马提名出任美国商务部长。
骆家辉是第一位华裔州长。华盛顿州选民1996年推举他担任州长，并获得连任。自2005年搬出州长宫邸后，骆家辉一直在西雅图的戴维斯律师事务所任顾问，负责处理涉华事务。该律师行在上海设有办事处。
该律师行表示，它为中国东方航空公司、上海航空公司、中国海运集团和中国银行等多家中国国企代理过有关业务。
约翰·肖曾在1992年至2004年间分别在国防部、国务院和商务部担任要职，负责出口管制和技术转让问题。肖表示，参议员会问及被提名人过去的筹款情况，以及对向中国等国转让高科技的看法。
白宫一名发言人说，奥巴马政府相信，骆家辉可避免任何利益冲突，“不论作为华盛顿州州长，还是此后作为一名代表美国公司利益的律师，骆家辉都为美国在海外的业务开拓了市场并创造了大量机会。我们相信，他能够继续维护好美国企业和员工的利益，并恪守本政府的道德规范”。
该发言人还就上述政治捐款一事说，骆家辉早已退还有关资金，国会及司法部调查人员也从未指出过他有任何不当行为。
因中国资金受牵连 美国会审查骆家辉与中国关系（图）
本文网址：http://www.backchina.com/news/2009/3/19/33645.html
原题：EXCLUSIVE: Commerce pick tied to China cash
作者：The Fifth Season 在 海归商务 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
上一次由The Fifth Season于2009-3-27 周五, 05:23修改，总共修改了2次
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