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"I'd talk for five or 10 minutes and then we'd ... go around the table and let people say whatever they wanted to say," Clinton said. "I'm not sure that (Wang) ever said anything... I can tell you for sure nothing inappropriate came from it in terms of any governmental action on my part... We have to do a better job of screening people who come in and out of here."<ref name=potuswang>Yost, Pete, [http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/page1/96/12/21/china-arms.html "Clinton calls arms dealer's White House visit inappropriate"], Associated Press, [[December 20|Dec. 20]], [[1996]]</ref></blockquote>
According to Wang, during a [[United Nations|U.N.]] conference on women's rights in Beijing in 1995, he received an invitation from first lady [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] to attend a reception, but his schedule was fully booked. Wang has also met with Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger (whom he calls "a good friend") in addition to former President [[George H. W. Bush]] after he left office. During his two-day visit to Washington in 1996, Wang also held talks with Bill Clinton's [[United States Commerce Department|Commerce Secretary]], [Ron Brown (U.S. politician)|[Ron Brown]], whom he had met once before at a trade mission in Hong Kong.<ref name=wangvisits>Mufson, Steven, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/campfin/stories/deny16.htm "Chinese Denies Seeking White House Visit"], Washington Post, [[March 16]], [[1997]]</ref>
After questions arose regarding Trie's activities during Congressional investigations in late 1996, he left the country for China<ref name=senate>[http://www.senate.gov/~gov_affairs/3.pdf 1997 Special Investigation in Connection with 1996 Federal Election Campaigns'': Section 3, pp. 11-14], U.S. Senate (PDF file)</ref>. Trie returned to the U.S. in 1998 and was convicted and sentenced to three years probation and four months home detention for violating federal campaign finance laws by making political contributions in someone else's name and by causing a false statement to be made to the [[Federal Election Commission]] (FEC).<ref name=guiltyplea>[http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/05/21/trie/ "Fund-raiser Charlie Trie pleads guilty under plea agreement"], CNN.com, [[May 21]], [[1999]]</ref>
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