Clinton Friend Trie Gets Home Detention
President Clinton’s friend Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie was sentenced Monday in Little Rock, Ark., to four months’ home detention and three years’ probation for violating campaign finance laws. He was also fined $5,000 and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service. Trie, 50, pleaded guilty in May to a felony count of causing the Democratic National Committee to make a false report to the Federal Election Commission and to a misdemeanor charge of making $5,000 in contributions in the names of others.
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