Dan Burton: “as we close this week, I thought I would inform my colleagues and anyone else who may be paying attention that…”

“as we close this week, I thought I would inform my colleagues and anyone else who may be paying attention that, regarding the investigation that I am charged to chair involving illegal foreign campaign contributions and the possibility of people in very high offices of this country breaking the law, we are now up to 89 people, 89 people who have been associates or friends of the President or political allies or contributors, 89 people have either taken the fifth amendment or fled the country. A lot of my colleagues have asked me about the progress of our investigation. I tried to explain to them that we are making some headway. Charlie Trie, one of the friends of the President who had fled the country and gone to China, has now returned. He is under indictment and we believe there is negotiations going on with him of a plea bargaining nature, but we are not sure about that. The fact of the matter is there has been an indictment of Mr. Trie, a personal friend and associate of the President. We have a number of others that we believe ultimately will face indictment. But the biggest problem we face with the investigation is getting people to talk to us. Toward that end, we have asked the President to contact people who have fled the country to come back and appear before the committee so that they can help us get to the bottom of all these allegations.”