Panel to Review Donation Charge

A House panel investigating campaign fund-raising abuses will review allegations that an aide to then-Energy Secretary Hazel O’Leary sought a donation to O’Leary’s favorite charity from a Democratic donor. The donor, Johnny Chien Chuen Chung, alleged that he was asked to make the donation while seeking to set up a meeting between a Chinese businessman and O’Leary. Chung, who has refused to cooperate with investigators without a grant of immunity from prosecution, made a $25,000 donation to Africare on Oct. 19, 1995, the same day O’Leary posed for pictures with a delegation of businessmen.