Federal Elections Commission

In 1995 Subodh Chandra’s pro-India PAC was investigated by the FEC for secretly receiving $41,000 from the Indian government

CLEVELAND, OH – In a May 3, 1995 investigative news story for the Baltimore Sun, reporter Jim Haner exposed how an Indian alien attorney named Lalit Harilal Gadhia funneled money through a federal Political Action Committee (PAC) Indian attorney Subodh Chandra had registered from Alberquerque, New Mexico on August 16, 1993.  Chandra’s name has surfaced recently as a possible choice for United States Attorney of the Northern District of Ohio. Chandra’s PAC was named the Indian-American Leadership Investment Fund.  Gadhia’s goal was to use it to support “politicians with ties to India,” but under the direction of Indian Embassy personnel…

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