BIG BIZMAN PADS HIL'S SENATE FUND Tycoon donates 210G thru 14 firms

A multimillionaire immigrant channeled at least $210,000 in soft money through at least 14 different businesses to Hillary Rodham Clinton's New York Senate campaign on a single day in September, the Daily News has learned.

The donations made Sant Singh Chatwal one of the First Lady's biggest benefactors.

Chatwal, an Indian-American who started the Bombay Palace chain of restaurants, also controls the Hampshire Hotel and Resorts chain and is part owner of the News India-Times newspaper and television companies in New York.

His name appears nowhere in Clinton's federal election disclosures, but the obscure names of his businesses do.

- By BOB PORT DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER