Recent reports have revealed that a federal investigation has been launched into the handling of EB-5 visas for foreign nationals to finance Terry McAuliffe’s electric car company, GreenTech Automotive.

This isn’t the first time McAuliffe has been entangled in a federal investigation over improper payments from foreign nationals.

In 1996, The Washington Post reported that DNC Vice Chairman for Finance John Huang pled guilty to funneling illegal campaign contributions from Chinese foreign nationals to the DNC:

The Justice Department announced yesterday that John Huang, a key figure in the investigation of 1996 campaign finance abuses, has agreed to plead guilty to a single felony charge. The plea is part of an agreement that legal sources said promises that Huang will not be prosecuted in connection with his fund-raising activity for President Clinton’s 1996 reelection campaign. … But following the 1996 election, the DNC returned $1.6 million raised by Huang because it came from foreign nationals or because the origin of the money was murky. …

When the presidential reelection campaign got underway, he moved to the DNC as vice chairman for finance and became one of the party’s leading fund-raisers.

In 1997, McAuliffe, who served as Finance Director of the Clinton-Gore re-election committee, was deposed by a special Senate investigative committee on the matter.