When his father dies, the boy grows up (a moment dramatized brilliantly by Hou in a single jolting cut), and turns into a quietly wild adolescent of the streets.
The strands of intimate and historical memory twist together in this delicate, haunted drama, from 1986, in which the director Hou Hsiao-hsien conjures his reminiscences of childhood and adolescence in a remote Taiwan village in the nineteen-forties and fifties.
According to prosecutors, Ms. Lee is expected to testify that she solicited straw donors in July 2011 at around the same time that Ms. Hou allegedly engaged in the same conduct.
Federal investigators arrested Mr. Pan in the fall of 2011 and months later Ms. Hou, on charges that they participated in an illegal scheme to funnel thousands of dollars to Mr. Liu's campaign.
"It's prejudicial, " Gerald Lefcourt, an attorney for Ms. Hou, said in an interview.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who oversaw the case, said in a statement Ms. Hou and Mr. Pan "stuck a knife into the heart" of the city's campaign-finance law as part of a scheme "to corruptly advantage" Mr. Liu's campaign.
Spokeswoman Hou Hanmin says one suspect involved in the incident is in custody, but did not confirm the ethnicity or identities of the suspect and victims, the newspaper says.
Mr. Liu said he believed in the innocence of Jia "Jenny" Hou, his 26-year-old former campaign treasurer, who was convicted of attempted wire fraud, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal law-enforcement agents.
Ms. Hou and Mr. Pan were indicted in April 2012 and charged in an alleged scheme to defraud the city of campaign-matching funds through the use of straw donors.
Ms. Hou left the campaign after she was charged in February 2012.
Prosecutors used instant "chat" messages and emails to make the case for jurors that in the summer of 2011 Ms. Lee and Ms. Hou had been discussing ways of committing campaign fraud.
WSJ: John Liu Aide Testifies on Campaign Finance Allegations
In February 2012, Mr. Bharara's office charged Jia Hou, campaign treasurer for New York City Comptroller John Liu, a mayoral candidate, with fraud and obstruction of justice.
On Thursday, Ms. Lee testified for a second day in Manhattan federal court at the trial of Jia "Jenny" Hou, Mr. Liu's former campaign treasurer, and Xing Wu "Oliver" Pan, a longtime campaign contributor.
In one July 2011 "gchat, " Ms. Lee questioned Ms. Hou about why they were providing the city's Campaign Finance Board (CFB) which monitors campaign donations the locations and dates of their fundraising events on their contribution forms.
WSJ: John Liu Aide Testifies on Campaign Finance Allegations
Ms. Lee told Ms. Hou's attorney, Gerald Lefcourt, that she didn't make the contributions in her own name because, "I was concerned about the perception" of an employee of the comptroller's office contributing to her boss's political campaign.
The jurors also heard lawyers for Liu's ex-campaign treasurer, Jia "Jenny" Hou, and former fundraiser Xing "Oliver" Wu Pan portray them as political neophytes caught in the crossfire of an overzealous corruption investigation of Liu's campaign finances.
On Thursday, she was expected to testify further in the campaign-fraud conspiracy case against Mr. Liu's former campaign treasurer, Jia "Jenny" Hou, and a longtime political supporter Xing Wu "Oliver" Pan.
WSJ: John Liu Aide Testifies on Campaign Finance Allegations
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