Johnny Chung

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Johnny Chung (鍾育瀚) was a major figure in the 1996 U.S. campaign finance scandal.

Born in Taiwan, Chung was the owner of a "blastfaxing" business (an automated system that quickly sends out faxes to thousands of businesses) in California, United States in the early 1990s. Chung eventually found himself in the middle of the Washington, D.C. elite within a couple weeks of his first donations to the Democratic Party. Chung made forty-nine separate visits to the White House between February 1994 and February 1996.Chung, Johnny, ["The Real Johnny Chung"], WorldNetDaily.com, April 7, 2000Jackson, David and Sun, Lena H., ["Liu's Deals With Chung: An Intercontinental Puzzle"], Washington Post, May 24, 1998Park, Scott, ["FBI transcripts resurrect Clinton-China questions"], Human Events, Sep. 3, 1999

See also

• Timeline of Chinese espionage against the U.S.

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