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People (9)

  • C. Joseph Giroir Rose Law Firm lawyer and Worthen Banking Corporation partner whose deposition described the Lippo Group's Arkansas partnership with the Stephens family; Lippo later paid him through a company he incorporated in 1993.
  • Curt Bradbury Stephens Inc. officer present at the November 1977 Little Rock meeting with BCCI, later chairman of Worthen Bank, which lent the 1992 Clinton campaign 3.5 million dollars.
  • Jackson Stephens Little Rock investment banker whose firm held the nominee account through which BCCI's clients bought into Financial General Bankshares in 1977, and whose Worthen Bank, owned with the Riady family, financed Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign.
  • James Riady Indonesian banker, son of Lippo Group founder Mochtar Riady, who interned at Stephens Inc., ran Worthen Bank's international division in Little Rock, and in 2001 paid the largest campaign finance fine in American history.
  • John Huang Lippo Group banker who worked under James Riady at Worthen Bank, received 37 CIA briefings at the Commerce Department while keeping a secret office at Stephens Inc., and pleaded guilty in 1999.
  • Ken Howery PayPal and Founders Fund co-founder who served as Trump's ambassador to Sweden from 2019, gave 1 million dollars to America PAC in June 2024, and became ambassador to Denmark in 2025.
  • Kenneth Mapp Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands from 2015 to 2019, who asked Jeffrey Epstein to lend the territory 275 million dollars and to fund his political action committee.
  • Luke Nosek PayPal co-founder, Founders Fund co-founder and Gigafund managing partner, a SpaceX director since July 2008 whose 2026 prospectus lists 32,987,360 shares, 2,381,000 pledged against personal debt.
  • Stacey Plaskett Virgin Islands delegate to Congress since 2015, formerly counsel to the territory's Economic Development Commission, whose 2014 island meeting, campaign receipts and 2019 hearing texts with Jeffrey Epstein drew a failed 2025 censure.

Organizations (7)

  • China Resources Hong Kong trading company of the Chinese government, founded in 1938, which became the Lippo Group's principal partner in China and bought 15 percent of the Hong Kong Chinese Bank in 1992.
  • Federal Election Commission Six-member independent federal commission created by the 1974 amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act to administer and enforce federal campaign finance law; it opened in 1975.
  • Jane Street Capital New York proprietary trading firm that trained Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, agreed in 2024 to buy FTX's Anthropic shares, and faces India's 2025 manipulation order and the Terraform estate's insider trading suit.
  • Lippo Group Indonesian banking and property conglomerate of the Riady family, partner of the Arkansas Stephens family from 1978 and employer of John Huang, whose California bank pleaded guilty to campaign finance counts in 2001.
  • LippoBank California bank chartered in 1961 as the Bank of Trade of San Francisco, renamed Lippo Bank in 1990, which pleaded guilty in 2001 to 86 misdemeanor counts of illegal foreign campaign contributions.
  • Real Justice PAC San Francisco hybrid PAC registered in 2017 to elect reform prosecutors, financed by Cari Tuna, the Open Philanthropy Action Fund and its affiliated Grassroots Law PAC, and fined by Philadelphia over Krasner's 2021 campaign.
  • Worthen Bank Little Rock bank owned jointly in the 1980s by Jackson Stephens and the Riady family of Indonesia, which employed James Riady and John Huang and financed Bill Clinton's 1992 primary campaign.