Date: 1/21/99 9:57 PM
From: Calif Dem Party
Our good friend and Democrat, Board of Equalization (District
4) JOHN CHIANG,
needs your help. His sister, Joyce Chiang, has been missing for
over a week.
Please read the following -- spread the word, and help in any
way that you can:
1) Reward fund notice
2) FBI Press Release
3) Washington Times article
4) Attached flyer with photo (accessible with Acrobat)
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
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> Subject: FW: Reward fund for Joyce Chiang
> From: Howard Berman
> Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 9:58 AM
> To: Howard Berman
> Subject: Reward fund for Joyce Chiang
>
> A reward fund has been established by her friends for credible
information
> leading to the location of Joyce Chiang. If you would like to
make a
> donation, please make your check or money order payable to:
>
> "The Fund to Find Joyce Chiang, Account 126463", and send it
to:
>
> Wright Patman
> Congressional Federal Credit Union
> P.O. Box 23267
> Washington, DC 20026-3267
>
> Her Family and Friends appreciate your prayers and support.
Please know
> that if the reward is never claimed, the money will be given
to charity.
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> From: Howard Berman
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 1999 4:44 PM
> To: Howard Berman
> Subject: URGENT! Former Rep. Berman staffer MISSING!
>
> <<jcposter.pdf>>
> A former member of my staff is MISSING! Please keep an eye out
for her.
> Her
> photo is enclosed in the attachment.
>
> FBI Press Release:
> January 15, 1999
>
> INS ATTORNEY MISSING FOR SIX DAYS
>
> The FBI's Washington, D.C., Field Office and the Immigration
and
> Naturalization Service (INS) are asking for the public's assistance
in
> locating JOYCE CHIANG, an INS attorney, who has been missing
since January 9,
> 1999.
>
> Ms. CHIANG was last seen at approximately 8:20 p.m. on Saturday,
January
> 9, > when a friend dropped her off at the intersection of "R"
Street and
> Connecticut Avenue NW in the DuPont Circle area of the District
of
> Columbia.
> According to the friend, Ms. CHIANG planed to go to a nearby
Starbuck's
> Coffee Shop and then walk to her residence in the 1700 block
of Church
> Street NW , where she lives with a relative.
>
> JOYCE CHIANG is described as a Chinese-American female, age
28, date of
> birth 12/7/70, 5'3" tall, 105 pounds, with brown eyes and shoulder-length
> hair. When last seen, Ms. CHIANG was wearing a hooded, thigh
length green
> jacket, light blue jeans, a black turtleneck, a red paisley
scarf around her
> neck, and a black scarf on her head.
>
> Ms. CHIANG has been employed by INS since April, 1992, and is
currently
> assigned to the Office of General Counsel at INS headquarters
here in
> Washington.
>
> Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of JOYCE CHIANG
is asked to
> contact the FBI's Washington Field Office at (202) 278-2382
or INS at (202)
> 616-5000 as soon as possible. All telephone calls will be treated
as
> confidential.
>
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Desperate Search for Missing Woman
Family, Friends of INS Lawyer Pass Out Fliers, Cling to Hope
By John W. Fountain
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 20, 1999; Page B04
With few clues in the disappearance of a Northwest Washington
woman last seen 11
days ago, family and friends of Joyce Chiang flooded the streets
with fliers
yesterday, praying for answers, holding onto hope.
Chiang, 28, is a lawyer for the Immigration and Naturalization
Service. She
was last seen Jan. 9, after a friend dropped her off at 19th Street
and
Connecticut Avenue NW, about three blocks from the apartment she
shared with
a younger brother, Roger, in the 1700 block of Church Street NW,
near Dupont
Circle.
Yesterday, Roger Chiang described his sister as "upbeat, very
warm, a very
loving sister."
"She is a very hard-working, very dedicated person," said Roger
Chiang, 26.
"People look to her for answers."
So far, there have been no answers to his sister's disappearance.
The FBI continues its investigation but has received only a "handful
of tips"
that so far have not been substantive, said Susan Lloyd, an FBI
spokeswoman.
Federal investigators have not turned up any witnesses who have
seen Joyce
Chiang since she was dropped off about 8:30 p.m. Jan. 9, with
plans to go to a
nearby Starbucks Coffee shop.
The only piece of evidence investigators have turned up is Joyce
Chiang's
government identification card, found in Anacostia Park in Southeast
Washington
by an unidentified woman, who gave it to U.S. Park Police on Jan.
10, Lloyd said
yesterday. The ID card was not turned over to the FBI until Thursday,
Lloyd
said.
Park Police, the FBI and INS agents searched Anacostia Park on
Friday but found
no more of Chiang's belongings.
In the absence of any strong clues, investigators are appealing
to the public
for help. FBI officials said yesterday that they would like for
the unidentified
woman who found Chiang's ID to contact authorities.
"We are very hopeful that someone will contact us with information
as to where
she might be or what might have happened," Lloyd said.
Family, friends and co-workers have mounted a campaign to raise
public awareness
about Chiang's disappearance. They are offering a $5,000 reward
for information
leading to her whereabouts. The television show "America's Most
Wanted" will air
a segment about the disappearance on Saturday, officials and the
family said.
Chiang, a Georgetown University law school graduate who started
working at the
INS in 1995, worked on an agency task force to help implement
a tough 1996
immigration law, said Donald Mueller, an INS spokesman.
"Joyce was sort of the linchpin of that whole effort as a special
assistant to
the person in charge of that," Mueller said. "She had hundreds
and hundreds and
hundreds of friends. She was one those kind of people who just
lit up a room."
Roger Chiang said he last saw his sister Jan. 9, a Saturday. Initially,
he
thought she had spent the weekend with a friend, but he became
suspicious when
she didn't come home after work the following Monday. When he
called his
sister's office, he said, he learned that she had not shown up
for work that
day. He alerted police and began his search.
"The incredible thing about this is [that] word has definitely
gotten out
there," Roger Chiang said. "We're just hoping and praying."
Anyone with information regarding Joyce Chiang's whereabouts is
asked to call
the FBI at 202-278-2382.
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