Hsia Enters Not Guilty Plea
<i> Washington Post</i>
WASHINGTON —
Fund-raiser Maria Hsia pleaded not guilty Thursday to laundering illegal contributions from a Buddhist temple to the 1996 Clinton-Gore reelection effort and other Democratic campaigns.
Hsia, 47, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Taiwan, is charged with laundering contributions from the Hsi Lai Temple of Hacienda Heights, Calif., which is prohibited from making such donations because it is a nonprofit religious organization. The temple was named as an unindicted co-conspirator.
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