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#LippoGroup

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People (5)

  • 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.
  • Mochtar Riady Indonesian founder of the Lippo Group, partner of the Stephens family of Little Rock from 1976, whom a 1998 Senate report said, with his son James, had a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency.
  • Webster Hubbell Rose Law Firm partner and associate attorney general who resigned in 1994 over his billings, was paid over 500,000 dollars by seventeen supporters of the president, among them the Lippo Group, and went to prison.

Organizations (6)

  • 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.
  • Hong Kong China Limited Hong Kong property subsidiary of the Riady family's Lippo Group, which wired 99,985 dollars to Webster Hubbell on June 27, 1994, the day he agreed to consult for it.
  • Hong Kong Chinese Bank Hong Kong bank whose Stephens family stake the Riadys took in exchange for their Worthen Bank shares about 1987, later part-owned by China Resources and sold to CITIC Ka Wah Bank in 2001.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Places (1)

  • Little Rock, Arkansas Capital of Arkansas and seat of Stephens Inc., Worthen Bank, Systematics, and the Rose Law Firm, where BCCI's emissary met Jackson Stephens and Bert Lance in 1977 and the Riady family entered American banking.