Article: Gore ally found guilty on 5 counts.

A longtime fund-raiser for Vice President Al Gore was convicted yesterday by a federal jury in Washington of concealing the source of $109,000 donated after a 1996 fund-raiser attended by Mr. Gore at a California Buddhist temple.

Maria Hsia, a Taiwan-born U.S. citizen, had been accused of hiding "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.

Prosecutors said the California immigration consultant "made a conscious decision to undermine" federal electoral laws "to advance her own business and ...

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