This is a Mother Jones article from 2000 about one of the top political donors of that year. Listen to this:
By the end of the summer of 1999, no fewer than 10 congressional committees and subcommittees were investigating whether the Clinton administration's policy of allowing aerospace company Loral Space & Communications to launch satellites in China had helped advance Beijing's own missile technology research program. Following the scent, the media focused its attention on the unfortunate object of the president's affections, Bernard L. Schwartz, the slight, bald, septuagenarian CEO of Loral.
Schwartz had given Democrats $1.4 million since 1991, during the Clinton years, and was a member of the Mother Jones 400 well before he became mired in this scandal (he ranked No. 1 in 1999). As Mother Jones reported last year, he was honored on his 71st birthday with a private White House dinner. It's because of this access, Clinton's critics suggest, that the president rubber-stamped Loral's launches in China – even after Loral apparently ignored security procedures in 1996 by faxing Beijing a draft report about a Chinese rocket crash that destroyed a Loral satellite.
Bernard L. and Irene Schwartz
Last year's rank: No. 1, New York, N.Y., $555,000
Schwartz, 72, is the CEO of Loral Space & Communications.
http://webarchive.loc.gov/legacy/20011128103927/http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/nd98/topten.html