“ White House and DNC officials, therefore, treated Johnny Chung, his business, and his Chinese clients as favored guests, “not knowing anything about them except that they were DNC contributors.”80 That was, apparently, all that mattered.
Notes 1 Letter from Johnny Chung to Doris Matsui, Jan. 4, 1995 (Ex. 1) .
2 See Biography of Johnny Chung (Ex. 2) . AISI provides a fax broadcast service that can send faxes simultaneously to thousands of locations.
3 See Chart of contributions by Johnny Chung and AISI, with attached checks (Ex. 3) . ”

“ For example, these WAVES records do not show Chung’s attendance at the President’s Radio Address on March 9, 1995. However, the White House produced a video tape and photograph contact sheet that confirm his attendance.
7 See Marc Lacey, “House Subpoenas Torrance Businessman,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 8, 1997, p. A12.
8 Letter from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Johnny Chung, April 12, 1993 (Ex. 7) . In a subsequent letter written two weeks later, the First Lady wrote Chung to wish him luck with what she described as his “innovative” fax broadcast business. ”

“ To speed this process along, Chung made a $40,000 contribution to the DNC in the name of his company, AISI. Although Sullivan would later come to suspect that Chung was laundering foreign money into the DNC — and although Chung explicitly told Sullivan that Chen would “play an important role in our future party functions”21 — Sullivan was apparently unconcerned about this AISI donation and accepted it without question. ”

“ Johnny Chung and the White House "Subway Introduction Johnny Chung, a Taiwan-born businessman and self-described “die hard Democrat,”1 serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Automated Intelligent Systems, Inc. ”

“ See Ex. 28.
73 Ex. 28.
74 See id. (recounting Chung photograph issue to NSC staff) . Moreover, Hernreich recounted that the President had said, with regard to the attendance of Chung’s group at the radio address, that “ [w] e shouldn’t have done that.” Hernreich deposition, p. 67. Hernreich understood this to mean that Chung’s clients were “inappropriate foreign people.” Id., pp. 67-68.
75 E-mail from Robert Suettinger to Melanie Darby, April 7, 1995 (Ex. 30) .
76 Id.
77 See White House contact sheet of photos with the First Lady from March 9, 1995 (Ex. 31) . ”