Started in BC presidency:
more controversial scandals of the 1996 reelection campaign. The Democratic National Committee was eventually forced to return $2.8 million in illegal contributions, much of it from foreign nationals, and much of it brought to the party by fundraising executive John Huang.
Huang originally represented U.S. interests for the Riady family, a powerful family of Indonesian businessmen with close ties to the Communist Chinese government. James Riady had been a "Friend of Bill" since 1977, and the two authors all but insinuate that the Riadys "scouted" Clinton–whether as an unwitting dupe, a sleeper agent, or merely an exploitable opportunist is never quite clear–and helped underwrite his bid for the White House. Why? So they could get John Huang a Commerce Department appointment… one that came with a top-secret security clearance.