Tseng Wen-fui (
That she was on the green was hardly a revelation for a member of the golf-loving political family -- but the timing appeared to be engineered as proof that she was, in fact, still in the country.
New Party legislators Elmer Feng (
PHOTO: CHU PEI-HSIUNG, LIBERTY TIMESN
Feng held a press conference yesterday morning, holding documents saying 54 pieces of her luggage were inspected and sent back to Taiwan after she got off a China Airlines flight at Kennedy Airport. The bags, they said, were stuffed with bank notes.
"Where is she now?" Feng said.
In Linkou, along with the finance minister's wife, said a statement from the presidential office.
Tseng told media at the golf course in the afternoon that she'd spent the last few days at home.
Annie Lee (李安妮), the president's daughter, said that the New Party's accusations were "baseless" and "hurtful."
"Only people with filthy hearts will have filthy thoughts, and only people with filthy thoughts could say things like this," she said, adding that anyone interested in investigating her mother's whereabouts could check with Taiwanese passport control.
The family plans legal action, she said.
Taiwan's two flag carriers -- EVA Air and China Airlines -- said yesterday that Tseng's name hadn't been on their passenger lists.
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