For many years, Hong Kong tycoon Eric Hotung enjoyed rubbing shoulders with the power elite in Washington, D.C. His personal website has pictures of him with three presidents and U.S. political figures ranging from Zbigniew Brzezinski to Jesse Helms. His name came up in the Clinton administration Donorgate scandal, when his $100,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee in 1995 allegedly got him a private audience with then-national security adviser Sandy Berger (Hotung was never accused of any wrongdoing). He’s since donated $1 million to President Clinton’s private foundation.
In 1997, he bought Edward Kennedy’s house in McLean, Va., for $6 million. He also donated $5 million to alma mater Georgetown to build the state-of-the-art Eric E. Hotung International Law Center, which opened in 2004.
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