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Article: Jurors told fund-raiser hid source of $100,000.(Nation)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2000
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Maria Hsia, longtime fund-raiser for Vice President Al Gore, concealed the source of $100,000 donated after a 1996 fund-raiser attended by Mr. Gore at a Buddhist temple, prosecutors said in opening arguments yesterday in her federal trial.
Prosecutor Eric Yaffee told jurors Mrs. Hsia, a Taiwan-born U.S. citizen, hid "the true sources of thousands of dollars of illegal contributions she solicited" from the Hsi Lai Temple in Hacienda Heights, Calif., for the Democratic Party and the 1996 Clinton-Gore Re-election Committee.
Mr. Yaffee said the California immigration consultant "made a conscious decision to undermine" federal electoral laws "to advance ...