from TPDL 2001-Feb-19, from NewsMax, by Carl Limbacher et al.:

Clinton Considering $2 Million Offer From Chinese Firm

Disgraced former president Bill Clinton is considering a $2 million offer to represent a major Chinese garment company, Agence France Press reported Sunday.

The megabuck proposal comes from Fapai, a men's clothing manufacturer based in eastern China's Zhejiang province. The company wants Clinton to be its "image ambassador," a spokesman for Fapai told AFP.

Last month, Fapai wrote to Sen. Hillary Clinton to repeat the offer after it was first suggested last May. At the time the proposal was dismissed as premature.

But this time she communicated the ex-first couple's interest personally.

"Mrs. Clinton thanked us on her own and her husband's behalf for the offer and expressed readiness to discuss it face to face with the company director," reported Beijing's "Youth Daily" newspaper.

A spokesman for Fapai told the French wire service that Sen. Clinton wrote company officials last week, as questions swirled in the U.S. about whether the Clintons had used the White House to sell pardons and steal furniture.

Last September, the Far Eastern Economic Review reported that the Chinese-controlled, Indonesian-based Lippo Group had offered then-President Clinton a position on its board of directors. Lippo sources told that paper they expected Clinton to accept the job after he left the White House.

Lippo CEO James Riady poured millions of dollars into Clinton's two presidential campaigns and is suspected of paying hush money to several Clinton scandal witnesses.

It's not clear whether there's any connection between Fapai's $2 million offer and the Lippo Group.