But the judge sternly rejected the efforts and ordered Trie to a Washington halfway house 24-hours-a-day.
His attorneys insisted Trie's effort to get a new passport did not reflect a desire to flee.
In December, restrictions on Trie had been tightened to limit his movement to the Virginia Beach area.
C. half-way houses are "notorious, " proposing a last-minute plan to have Trie housed and supervised in private homes.
Judge Friedman had asked authorities to find a half-way house near Norfolk, Virginia, where Trie has been living with his sister.
Four of the original 15 counts against Trie have been thrown out by the same judge who revoked his bail Monday.
The lawyer insisted Trie had indeed been burglarized in Little Rock, and that Trie had not intentionally filed a false police report.
The government said Trie's passport had, in fact, been taken from him when he was arrested on campaign finance-related charges last year.
The U.S. has been trying to locate a number of witnesses, including Chinese businessman Charlie Trie, who may have fled to Asia.
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Trie faces an April trial in Little Rock on charges he interfered with a Senate investigation by ordering subpoenaed documents to be hidden.
For the second time in two days, Trie's lawyers pleaded with U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman not to order Trie back into custody.
Judge Friedman cited what he termed suspicious timing in Trie's effort to obtain a passport without telling the government, the court, or his own lawyers.
Trie goes on trial in October on federal charges of fraud and conspiring to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal political donations to Democrats.
As part of a plea bargain, Trie agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's ongoing campaign fund-raising investigation and has helped Burton's committee with its inquiry.
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Trie pleaded guilty in May of 1999 to one felony charge of causing the Democratic National Committee's treasurer to submit a report to the Federal Election Commission that gave false names for donors.
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Justice Department officials said the court's ruling will almost certainly lead to the reinstatement of similar charges against two other defendants, Charlie Trie and Pauline Kanchanalak, who also had counts of making false statements dismissed by Friedman.
The White House also said that by the end of Tuesday, it had turned over all material on the people at the center of the fund-raising flap: fund-raisers John Huang and Charles Trie, and former administration officials Webster Hubbell and Mark Middleton.
The day's first witness will be an FBI agent who will summarize the FBI's investigation of Trie and is expected to lay-out a money trail of hundreds of thousands of dollars sent by wire transfer from Trie's partner, Ng Lap Seng, to Trie.
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