Johnny Chung: Gore Solicited Campaign Funds in White House

Source: newsmax.com
Published: 3-20-00
Author: Carl Limbacher

Chinagate whistleblower Johnny Chung is ready to go public with what he told Justice Department campaign finance task force chief Charles LaBella: Vice President Al Gore discussed campaign contributions with him and several other potential donors inside the White House.

NewsMax.com has learned exclusively that Chung revealed he attended a luncheon fund raiser at Washington’s Hayes-Adams Hotel in 1995 where Vice President Gore met with Chung and twenty to thirty members of the Democratic National Committee’s Business Leadership Forum.

After the fund-raising event Gore invited Chung and his group to the White House and where Gore openly sought campaign contributions.

Though excerpts of the LaBella Report were leaked to the Los Angeles Times ten days ago, it is believed the most damaging information remains under seal in the still top-secret document.

One portion of the LaBella memo, which recommended that Attorney General Janet Reno appoint an independent counsel to investigate Al Gore, suggested that Vice President Gore may have committed perjury. LaBella stated in his memo that the Vice President “may have provided false testimony.”

Vice President Gore has heatedly denied he improperly raised funds. LaBella, however, may have been referencing more than Chung’s account to make his claim that the Vice President may have lied.

Chung’s politically explosive account to LaBella could be one of the key reasons Attorney General Janet Reno insists on keeping his report under lock and key.

Though Gore narrowly missed the appointment of an independent counsel in 1998 for making illegal fund-raising phone calls from federal property, Chung’s account is the first to implicate the Vice President in face-to-face fund-raising inside his White House office.

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