It's one thing for President Clinton to get impeached over a scandalous sexual affair - but both a convicted Chinagate influence peddler and a former National Organization for Women leader suggest the Clinton White House is turning a blind eye to the question of international state-sponsored prostitution. In fact, the Chinagate figure, fundraiser businessman Johnny Chung, says one of the international underworld's most notorious prostitution operatives has connections to the Clinton White House.
Convicted influence-peddler Johnny Chung says that figure, Ng Lapseng, is part of a dangerous Chinese crime group which specializes in forcible abduction of women for prostitution. He tells WorldNetDaily.com that despite more than one attempt on his life, he, Chung, who had known Ng, tried to tell both the White House and federal law enforcement the truth about Ng's activities - "yet nothing has been done."
Meanwhile, the National Organization for Women's Dulles, Virginia chapter president Marie-Jose Ragab tells WND the Clinton Administration and China's Communist rulers have ignored the problem. WND says Ragab, in fact, has split with the feminist mainstream and become a Clinton opponent because of this issue and other examples of hypocrisy between NOW and its support of the Clintons.
In a WND interview, Chung says Ng Lapseng, whom WND says "earned a reputation of being tough, smart, and connected," visited the White House in 1994 at a time when he was a close friend of China state weapon maker Polytechnologies, Inc. chairman Wang Jun.
Chung says he, Ng Lapseng, and another Chinagate figure, Charlie Trie, met together with Zhuhai's mayor in a Washington hotel in 1994. "I cannot tell you the mayor's name because of my own concerns, but I can tell you he knew Ng Lapseng very well. All too well…(we) were waiting to go to watch a speech by President Clinton.
"We decided to chat a while during the wait," Chung continues. "At one point, Trie asked to visit my office in Los Angeles. According to Trie, Ng Lapseng was interested in investing money into my fax service. Trie even mentioned that Ng was considering up to a 'million' dollars."
Ng Lapseng, according to Asia expert Bill Triplett, is part owner of Ang-Du International, reported to be one of several firms that acquire women for Ng to employ at his Macau brothels, WND says. A 1998 article on Ang-Du and Ng published in the Wall Street Journal said Ang-Du often acquired underage women - many abducted forcibly to work as prostitutes.
Year of the Rat, by Triplett and Ed Timperlake, "clearly notes" that Ng Lapseng arrived in San Francisco with $175,000 in cash -- the same June 1994 visit to America when Johnny Chung met the Macau brothel millionaire, WND continues. Two days or so later, the authors wrote, Ng dined at the White House mess with a presidential aide and Democratic Party fundraiser, Mark Middleton. "Later that evening," the authors continued, "Ng and his associate Charlie Trie would make honored guest appearances at a DNC-sponsored presidential Gala."
Chung agreed to Ng investing in his fax service and met with Ng, Trie, and the Zhuhai mayor later that month, visiting a Los Angeles business center opening and having a business dinner that night. He says Ng showed his credit card for the bill but, when it was turned down, pulled out cash to pay for the $3,000 dinner at "a very expensive" Chinese restaurant. Chung says Ng told him he knew the credit card would be rejected but enjoyed embarrassing everyone.
Two years later, Chung tells WND, he met the mayor of Zhuhai, who told him Ng "controls everything flowing between Macau and China. I was somewhat stunned, but I tried to remain calm. During the dinner, I noted that the mayor had a picture from America in his office. It was a signed picture of Mark Middleton, special assistant to President Clinton, sitting with the mayor on a couch. Middleton looked ridiculous, relaxing with his tie off, drinking with the mayor."
Ng's prostitution work is said to be made simpler because vast poor Chinese women seek work in a presumed free market, WND says. WND cites China Rights Forum, a human rights journal, as saying poor Chinese women are offered easy jobs in the south as a lure to prostitution. "Migrant female workers -- either abandoned or too poor to return home -- are swept up by the frequent street raids of the People's Armed Police, and then forced into prostitution."
"The fact that the loosening of trans-border regulations has allowed a freer circulation of capital and goods has been a boost to the traditional activities of organized crime," Ragab tells WND. "To the degree that it possesses unprecedented masses of 'dirty' money, it constantly twirls around the globe in permanent search of respectability in order to enter the regulated financial system, something politicians have the power to provide. The abominable buying and selling of women is an integral part of it, as it has always been, hence the effort by some governments to legitimize such a lucrative trade since women have become, in this new world order, no more than a mercantile commodity, a 'product' just like any other."
In fact, Ragab highlights her split from mainstream feminism and the Clintons by suggesting that Hillary Clinton, if elected to the Senate from New York, might well continue supporting efforts to legalize state-sponsored prostitution. "I see no reason why she would not, based on the record, and based on the concept advanced by perverse and/or plain dumb feminists that women are intelligent adults who have the right to chose their lifestyle and to dispose of their body as they see fit," she tells WND.
Ragab says state sponsorship of prostitution is a longtime dream of many governments, such as the Netherlands - where prostitution "was recently made a taxable 'job' - Thailand and the Philippines. "It is a sadistic, woman-hating inversion of previously-sound concepts then, designed to encourage women to reach their potential, a rationalization of barbarism when we know what the sold women endure, the tortures, the inability to leave the milieu, the often wretched abusive childhoods and lawless environments which foster trafficking."
