According to the Justice Department, Riady, Lippo Group and LippoBank hoped their contributions would get them benefits from various campaign committees and candidates including:

• access, meetings, and time with politicians, elected officials, and other high-level government officials;
  
   
• contacts and status for Lippo Group and LippoBank with business and government leaders in the United States and abroad;
  
  
• business opportunities for Lippo Group and defendant LippoBank;
   
• government policies which would  benefit of Lippo Group and LippoBank, including Most Favored Nation status for China, open trade policies with Indonesia, normalization of relations with Vietnam, Community Reinvestment Act exemptions for LippoBank, a repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act which limited business opportunities for LippoBank, and a relaxation of Taiwanese restrictions on investment by foreign banks;
   
• the deposit of funds into LippoBank by political campaign committees and government agencies; and
   
• local government support for Lippo Group's California property development projects which would in turn benefit LippoBank's plans for expansion. 

The unlawful conduct described in the information occurred prior to LippoBank's acquisition by First Bank's America, Inc. on or about March 1, 2000. First Bank's America, Inc. had no involvement in the conduct which forms the basis of the information and plea, according the the Justice Department