China, Clintons, and the real whitewash of Clinton Era Scandals: The Riady Crime Ring

This is the third post which is has become kind of a series (not on purpose)

The first: Will Kenneth Starr be exposed as having been Bill Clinton's accomplice?

The second: Nov 5 2016 - '90s Clinton Scandal: James Riady Still Giving Money to Clintons, joined CGI

and now

March 2001 AIM Report: The Case Against James Riady

Miscarriage of Justice

On March 19, 2001, Judicial Watch urged the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to reject the plea agreement under which Bill Clinton’s friend James T. Riady and the Lippo Bank escaped with what was for them a slap on the wrist for their serious violations of campaign finance laws and other crimes.

It appears that Justice Department officials have abrogated their responsibility to follow important criminal leads generated by Mr. Riady’s “cooperation.” ... It is wrong for the U.S. Attorney’s Office to simultaneously claim complete knowledge of a criminal conspiracy and fail to act in pursuing the criminals involved in the conspiracy. This conspiracy involved a scheme to alter and subvert U.S. foreign policy for the benefit of a foreign corporation, as well as a concerted campaign to purchase and peddle influence and classified information at the highest levels of the federal government. The U.S. Attorney may have a “complete understanding” of Mr. Riady’s crimes, but the American people do not.

The Riady Criminal Ring (Highlights)

Judicial Watch has documented Mr. Riady’s and Lippo Group’s substantial interests in China, including real estate, banking, electronics, currency exchange, retail, electricity and tourism. Mr. Riady’s investments, contacts, influence and political savvy made him a valuable resource to Chinese intelligence. His independent wealth and corporate apparatus provided him sufficient infrastructure to establish his own network of corporate operatives in the United States.

Riady’s Lippo interests as well as his business ties to the PRC provide both the motive and the opportunity to capitalize on developing a scheme to purchase and peddle influence and classified information, targeting the highest levels of the U.S. government. Mr. Riady’s “business associates,” dealings and contacts reveal a veritable “who’s who” of highly suspect Communist Chinese agents and provide the framework or outline for the entire “Chinagate” scandal documented by the 1997 Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Special Investigation Report, hereinafter the “Thompson Report.”

More notable associates:

...These are people with whom Mr. Riady has maintained close and continuous contact over a period of several years, and with whom he has extensive business dealings and deep financial ties.

• Mr. Riady’s main business partner in China, is Shen Jueren. Shen Jueren is the head of China Resources Holding Company, an espionage front operation for the PRC government’s Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.

Shen has stated on different occasions that “China Resources is a state-owned company and all senior staff are government officials.” Shen has been a member of the Chinese Communist Party since 1955, and an officer of the Chinese Office of Foreign Trade since 1953. Since he has been a member of the Chinese Communist Party since 1955, the Court can conclude that his loyalty remains high to the national interests of the PRC. Shen Jueren met with former Vice-President Gore at a Santa Monica, Cal. fund-raiser on September 27, 1994. This is a further example of the insidious method in which Mr. Riady facilitated and ensured that Shen, his business partner and a Communist Chinese intelligence operative, had access to the former Vice President and close advisors.

• Another business partner of Mr. Riady is Li Ka-Shing, the majority owner of Hutchison Wampoa Co., Ltd. ? and partner with the China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), the merchant marine arm of the People’s Liberation Army.

  • Mr. Li Ka-Shing is a major shareholder and investor in the China International Trust and Investment Corporation (CITIC).

• CITIC is run by General Wang Jun, of the People’s Liberation Army ? the PRC’s main arms dealer to Communist regimes, terrorists, and rogue states. CITIC is the parent company of China’s Polytechnologies, an agency that oversees China’s acquisition and sales of weapons, and that it operates as a component of the general staff of the People’s Liberation Army.

• General Wang Jun was implicated in the illicit shipment of 2,000 AK-47 assault rifles to gang members in California.