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Hillary Clinton Watch: Hsu Contributions Help Hillary Supporters
Norman Hsu (L) is escorted inside a courtroom in Redwood City, California, September 21, 2007. Democratic fund-raiser Hsu was charged with fraud and campaign finance violations in a case that has prompted presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton to return $850,000 in contributions.
In a story that is NOT going away for Hillary Clinton, the Boston Globe today outlines how Hillary’s campaign used Norman Hsu and his bundled contributions to not only enrich her campaign but help gain/persuade/aid Presidential supporters.
Disgraced fund-raiser Norman Hsu did a lot more than just pump $850,000 into Hillary Clinton’s campaign bank account: He also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local, state, and federal candidates who have endorsed Clinton or whose support she courted.
A major fund-raiser for Democrats since 2003, Hsu became one of Clinton’s biggest bundlers – gathering scores of individual checks and sending them to her campaign. But since revelations last month that Hsu was a fugitive in a 15-year-old California fraud case, Clinton has said she would return the $850,000 she has taken from him and his associates.
In at least some cases, Clinton or her aides directly channeled contributions from Hsu and his network to other politicians supportive of her presidential campaign, according to interviews and campaign finance records. There is nothing illegal about one politician steering wealthy contributors to another, but the New York senator’s close ties to Hsu have become an embarrassment for her and her campaign.
So, who did Hillary help with Hsu contributions?
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack speaks at a Hillary Clinton campaign fundraiser in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007
Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack who last week as a Hillary surrogate attacked Rudy Giuliani on his multiple marriages:And in February, when former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack ended his own White House bid, he was about $450,000 in the red. A month after dropping out, Vilsack endorsed Clinton, and Clinton agreed to help him retire his debts. (Both insisted there was no quid pro quo.)
Over the next few months, some of Clinton’s biggest fund-raisers gave Vilsack checks, including Hsu, who kicked in the maximum allowable contribution, $2,300, on May 3 after attending an event organized by Clinton’s campaign, Newsweek reported this month. An associate of Hsu’s, Paul Su, chipped in $1,000 on the same day.
Governor Vilsack hasn’t learned the lesson of GLASS HOUSES, has he?
Other Clinton supporters/endorsers helped with Hsu contributions:
- Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan – $20,000 +
- Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas – $11,000
- Senator Dianne Feinstein of California – $17,000 +
- Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa – $50,000 – His wife is a Clinton supporter.
And remember Flip’s chart of contributions:
Hillary last week said about the contribtions:Clinton said in a National Public Radio interview last week that Hsu’s past was “a rude awakening to all of us – I mean, not only in my campaign, but the dozens of campaigns going back to, I guess, 2003 and ’04 who, you know, took contributions. None of us caught this and we all ran searches.”
Yet a California businessman had warned the Clinton campaign:
But the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that a California businessman had warned the campaign about Hsu in June and that a Clinton aide dismissed the concerns. “I can tell you with 100 [percent] certainty that Norman Hsu is NOT involved in a ponzi scheme. He is COMPLETELY legit,” Samantha Wolf, Clinton’s former West Coast campaign finance director, wrote in an e-mail to a California Democratic Party official, the Times reported.
This story is NOT going away. And it is NOT the “VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY” who will be outing the story but the MSM and the FBI.
Whenever the Clinton’s run there is something in their campaigns that NEVER smells quite right.
Fred Thompson was right about Charlie Trie.
Thompson adviser Rich Galen said Clinton’s 2008 campaign has become “the sequel†to her husband’s scandal-plagued 1996 campaign.
“You have to look at this with a great deal of skepticism that – having been through this sort of thing in ‘96 – that nobody thought to say, ‘Hey, you know, we better take another look at this before we take all this money,’ †he said.
“And the fact that nobody did – or if they did, they decided to just put their finger in front of their lips and say shhh and try to sneak off into the distance – tells you a great deal about the fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign is the Bill Clinton campaign redux.â€
Clinton is returning donations to 260 people who were recruited by Hsu. The FBI is investigating whether these were merely “straw†donors who were funneling money from Hsu to Clinton to skirt campaign finance laws.
In March 1996, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s legal defense fund accepted money from straw donors recruited by Yah Lin “Charlie†Trie. The Taiwan-born Democrat hand-delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of checks and money orders in two manila envelopes to the defense fund.
Is it the ARROGANCE of the Clinton’s or POLITICAL MEDIA MANIPULATION that make them think they can cover up every SCANDAL?
Stay tuned……
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Michael Ramirez on Hillary Clinton and Norman Hsu
Norman Hsu’s legal woes likely to follow Clinton
Norman Hsu was politician’s dream who became a nightmare. He knew people, hosted fundraisers, solicited donations. And he was an unabashed fan of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Now in disgrace, his role as one of Clinton’s top money bundlers will dog him and her presidential campaign while law enforcement authorities investigate his business and political dealings.
Eager to sever her links to Hsu, the Clinton campaign this week returned $850,000 in contributions linked to his fundraising activities. But Hsu’s troubles aren’t over and the spotlight on his political connections won’t recede easily.
Hsu is the latest poster boy for rogue fundraising, a man whose political shoulder rubbing reinvented him and then did him in. For Clinton, Hsu threatens to be an unwelcome reminder of the fundraising scandals that pursued her husband and the Democratic Party in the 1990s.
Rudy Giuliani has not weighed into this flap yet. But, Fred Thompson has been asking:
Didn’t you learn anything from Charlie Trie?
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Will Return $850,000 in Norman Hsu Contributions? Maybe
Norman Hsu, a convicted felon fugitive (now in custody in Colorado) and Democrat Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton
Remember Flap asked the question whether Senator Hillary Clinton will return the “SUSPECT” contributions from Democrat “BUNDLER” Norman Hsu.
Reportedly Hillary and her campaign will return the contributions – all $850,000 of them.
The New York Times reports that the Clinton campaign is returning the $850,000 Norman Hsu raised, “viewing the money as tainted. Yet the campaign is also risking another public relations mess by saying that it would take back the money if it clearly came from the donor’s bank account, not from Mr. Hsu or another source. The risk is that Mrs. Clinton will appear to want more cash no matter whether it was once colored by a disgraced donor.â€
“The campaign will try to get most of the donors to give the money back right after the refunds, said a senior Democratic strategist who advises Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. ‘That’s the plan,’ the strategist said.â€
NOBODY believes that Hillary and her campaign staff were simply mistaken in receiving Hsu’s “TAINTED” money. Meanwhile, The New York Daily News reveals that “FBI agents are collecting e-mail evidence in the widening [Hsu] scandal.â€
Fred Thompson has it RIGHT when he asks the question: Didn’t you learn anything from Charlie Trie?
Thompson adviser Rich Galen said Clinton’s 2008 campaign has become “the sequel” to her husband’s scandal-plagued 1996 campaign.
“You have to look at this with a great deal of skepticism that – having been through this sort of thing in ’96 – that nobody thought to say, ‘Hey, you know, we better take another look at this before we take all this money,’ ” he said.
“And the fact that nobody did – or if they did, they decided to just put their finger in front of their lips and say shhh and try to sneak off into the distance – tells you a great deal about the fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign is the Bill Clinton campaign redux.”
Clinton is returning donations to 260 people who were recruited by Hsu. The FBI is investigating whether these were merely “straw” donors who were funneling money from Hsu to Clinton to skirt campaign finance laws.
In March 1996, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s legal defense fund accepted money from straw donors recruited by Yah Lin “Charlie” Trie. The Taiwan-born Democrat hand-delivered hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of checks and money orders in two manila envelopes to the defense fund.
Stay tuned as this story develops…..
Update:
The Wall Street Journal has tracked down the probable source of Norman Hsu’s money.
That has been one of the big questions hanging over the prominent Democratic fund-raiser, as reports have surfaced about hundreds of thousands of dollars he made in political donations, plus lavish parties, fancy apartments and a $2 million bond he posted to get out of jail earlier this month.
New documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal may help point to an answer: A company controlled by Mr. Hsu recently received $40 million from a Madison Avenue investment fund run by Joel Rosenman, who was one of the creators of the Woodstock rock festival in 1969. That money, Mr. Rosenman told investors this week, is missing.
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Will Return $850,000 in Hsu Contributions?
Norman Hsu, a convicted felon fugitive and Democrat Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton
Fox News and Drudge are reporting: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is returning $850,000 to donors raised for her presidential campaign by Norman Hsu.
Update:
Clinton to Return $850,000 Raised by Hsu
“In light of recent events and allegations that Mr. Norman Hsu engaged in an illegal investment scheme, we have decided out of an abundance of caution to return the money he raised for our campaign,” Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said in a statement Monday night. “An estimated 260 donors this week will receive refunds totaling approximately $850,000 from the campaign.”
Wolfson said the Clinton campaign also will vigorously review its fundraisers, including thorough criminal background checks, in the future. “In any instances where a source of a bundler’s income is in question, the campaign will take affirmative steps to verify its origin,” he said.
And, does anyone really think that Hillary did not know about some random Chinese guy who raises almost a $1 million for you and others in your party?
The joke is that she will now conduct criminal background checks for donors. You will do this how over the internet?
You simply collect the money, and after the election suddenly discover that your donor is a crook.
Fancy that……..
Or you can be a very rich crook and donate to your husband’s Presidential Library like Marc Rich. But, that is another story – pardon?
In the meantime, the FBI investigates Hsu and his business dealings.
But, it is NOT just Hillary who received the money:
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Norman Hsu Watch: Fugitive Democrat Donor Hsu Captured in Colorado
Norman Hsu, right, prepares to surrender as he arrives with spokesman Jason Booth, center, and attorney Somnath Raj Chatterjee, left, at a San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, Calif., Friday, Aug. 31, 2007. Hsu, a top Democratic fundraiser wanted as a fugitive in California, turned himself in Friday to face a grand theft charge. After reports surfaced this week of Hsu’s fugitive status in California, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D-NY) joined other candidates in returning thousands of dollars Hsu raised. Hsu was arrested in a Colorado hospital late Thursday Sept. 6, 2007 after he failed to show up for a court appearance related to a felony theft conviction in California.
The FBI has arrested convicted felon and Democrat fundraising BUNDLER Norman Hsu.
Fugitive political fundraiser Norman Hsu, who skipped out on San Mateo County authorities this week rather than face sentencing for a 1992 fraud conviction, was apprehended Thursday night by federal and local lawmen in Grand Junction, Colo.
Authorities said Hsu was taken into custody at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction at 7 p.m. local time. He had been on the lam for almost two days after failing to appear in a Redwood City courtroom Wednesday to surrender his passport.
Hsu was taken off a passenger train at the Grand Junction train station earlier in the day by paramedics who requested a backboard to move him, said Sgt. Lonnie Chavez with the Grand Junction Police Department.
Authorities received a request for medical assistance at the train station at about 11:15 a.m., but the exact nature of Hsu’s condition was unclear, Chavez said. Staff at St. Mary’s Hospital declined to comment.
FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler said Hsu will be returned to California on the 1992 conviction once released from the hospital.
Norman Hsu, a convicted felon fugitive and Democrat Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton
And the extent of Hsu’s donations to Democrats and the Democrat supported causes is now meeting more intense scrutiny.
In the past four years, Hsu raised more than $1.2 million for Democratic causes and candidates, including the DNC and the campaign of New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer. And in the past six months, Hsu became a leading fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.). A person familiar with Clinton’s fundraising, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Hsu had raised “in the hundreds of thousands of dollars” since January for Clinton’s presidential bid.
Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign has announced it would donate to charity the $23,000 in direct contributions Hsu made to Clinton’s presidential campaign, her Senate reelection bid and her political action committee. The campaign does not plan to return any money Hsu raised from other donors.
And, as of five minutes ago, Norman Hsu is still listed as a HILLRAISER.
So, when will Hillary and Howard Dean, Democrat National Committee Chairman give a thorough accounting of Hsu’s “BUNDLING” activities and return ALL of the money?
Don’t bet it being anytime soon…….
Stay tuned.
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Fugitive fundraiser Hsu captured in Colorado
Fugitive political fundraiser Norman Hsu, who skipped out on San Mateo County authorities this week rather than face sentencing for a 1992 fraud conviction, was apprehended Thursday night by federal and local lawmen in Grand Junction, Colo.
Authorities said Hsu was taken into custody at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction at 7 p.m. local time. He had been on the lam for almost two days after failing to appear in a Redwood City courtroom Wednesday to surrender his passport.
Hsu was taken off a passenger train at the Grand Junction train station earlier in the day by paramedics who requested a backboard to move him, said Sgt. Lonnie Chavez with the Grand Junction Police Department.
Authorities received a request for medical assistance at the train station at about 11:15 a.m., but the exact nature of Hsu’s condition was unclear, Chavez said. Staff at St. Mary’s Hospital declined to comment.
FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler said Hsu will be returned to California on the 1992 conviction once released from the hospital.
Hsu’s attorney told state prosecutors that Hsu had been on a charter flight that arrived at Oakland International Airport at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and then dropped out of sight, said Gareth Lacy, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office.
Amtrak’s California Zephyr train offers service from nearby Emeryville to Grand Junction before heading to Denver and Chicago. The Zephyr left Emeryville at about 7:10 a.m. Wednesday and was scheduled to arrive in Grand Junction before noon Thursday.
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Norman Hsu Skips Bail Reduction Hearing
Fox News et. al. are reporting that Norman Hsu was a NO SHOW for court and that he was not required when he surrendered last week to turn in his passport.
Hsu forfeits $2 million in bail he posted last week. An arrest warrant has been issued.
Hsu’s lawyer says he doesn’t know where he is.
Hsu has been a fugitive in California for 15 years during which time he became a top donor to Democratic candidates, including presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
Hsu pleaded no contest in 1991 to a felony count of grand theft, admitting he’d defrauded investors of $1 million in a bogus investment scam.
Prosecutors say he was facing up to three years in prison when he skipped town before being sentenced.
Federal Election Commission records show Hsu donated $260,000 to the Democratic party and candidates since 2004.
So, where is Norman Hsu
And check out Flip’s summary of the extent of Norman Hsu’s contributions to Democrats.
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Norman Hsu Skips Bail Reduction Hearing
Fox News et. al. are reporting that Norman Hsu was a NO SHOW for court and that he was not required when he surrendered last week to turn in his passport.
Hsu forfeits $2 million in bail he posted last week. An arrest warrant has been issued.
Hsu’s lawyer says he doesn’t know where he is.
Hsu has been a fugitive in California for 15 years during which time he became a top donor to Democratic candidates, including presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
Hsu pleaded no contest in 1991 to a felony count of grand theft, admitting he’d defrauded investors of $1 million in a bogus investment scam.
Prosecutors say he was facing up to three years in prison when he skipped town before being sentenced.
Federal Election Commission records show Hsu donated $260,000 to the Democratic party and candidates since 2004.
So, where is Norman Hsu
And check out Flip’s summary of the extent of Norman Hsu’s contributions to Democrats.
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Norman Hsu, a convicted felon fugitive and Democrat Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton
Fox News et. al. are reporting that Norman Hsu was a NO SHOW for court and that he was not required when he surrendered last week to turn in his passport.
Hsu forfeits $2 million in bail he posted last week. An arrest warrant has been issued.
Hsu’s lawyer says he doesn’t know where he is.
Hsu has been a fugitive in California for 15 years during which time he became a top donor to Democratic candidates, including presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
Hsu pleaded no contest in 1991 to a felony count of grand theft, admitting he’d defrauded investors of $1 million in a bogus investment scam.
Prosecutors say he was facing up to three years in prison when he skipped town before being sentenced.
Federal Election Commission records show Hsu donated $260,000 to the Democratic party and candidates since 2004.
So, where is Norman Hsu?
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Michael Ramirez on Democrat Fundraiser Norman Hsu and the Clintons
A controversial Hillary Clinton fund-raiser surrendered to California authorities yesterday – 15 years after skipping out on a possible three-year jail term for a fraud conviction.
Businessman Norman Hsu was cuffed and bail was set at $2 million, with a judge turning down his request to cut the bail in half. He was released on bail five hours later.
The Clintons and the smell of dirty campaign money has returned (remember Bill Clinton’s pardon of Mark Rich?) and is tainting the Democrat Party.
All of the Democrats who received Hsu’s contributions are now scrambling to rid themselves of the money – from New Jersey’s Senators to New Mexico’s Governor and Presidential candidate Bill Richardson.
Fancy that……
Stay tuned as Hsu and the others are scrutinized for their ties to foreign interests.
And the Los Angeles Times asks how Hillary could not know about Hsu.
Gateway Pundit has an excellent round-up of the Hsu-nami that has hit Hillary and other Democrats:
- Macranger has more on the curious Mr. Hsu.
- Kurt Hoglund built a Google Notebook of “All Things Hsu”.
- Don Surber reports- Hillary Hears a Hsu
- Clarice Feldman– Left Hand Meet Right Hand
- Captain’s Quarters questions Hillary.
Hillary’s donor case goes back to court next week
Michelle Malkin reports that the Justice Department is looking into Norman Hsu’s possible straw campaign donations as a result of the Wall Street Journal report.
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Fugitive Democrat Fundraiser Norman Hsu’s California Contributions Under Scrutiny
*****Update*****
Norman Hsu turns himself into authorities and is jailed.
A top Democratic fundraiser wanted as a fugitive in California turned himself in Friday to face a grand theft charge.
San Mateo County Superior Court Judge H. James Ellis ordered Norman Hsu handcuffed and held on $2 million bond. A bail hearing was scheduled for Sept. 5, at which the judge will consider reducing his bail to $1 million.
Hsu appeared in court accompanied by a lawyer and publicist, both of whom declined to say whether the New York apparel executive would immediately post bail. A warrant was issued for his arrest after he skipped the sentencing for a 1991 grand theft charge.
In the ensuing years, Hsu became a top donor to numerous Democratic candidates and was a fundraiser for presidential contender Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. He also had contributed to Sen. Barack Obama’s past Senate campaign and his political action committee.
Norman Hsu, a convicted felon fugitive and Democrat Fundraiser for Hillary Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton
Well, they have been active in California state and local politics as well – to the tune of $53,000.
Let’s see who received the obviously TAINTED money:
Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles
California Attorney General Jerry Brown and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris
Former San Francisco Supervisor and now California Democrat Assemblywoman Fiona Ma. She represents Daly City where the Paw family residence is.
Rob Reiner’s “Pre-School for All” campaign, which became Proposition 82 on the June 2006 ballot
Democrat Congresswoman Doris Matsui (middle right)
Former California Controller and Democrat candidate for Governor in 2006, Steve Westly
Former California Treasurer and Democrat nominee for California Governor in 2006, Phil Angelides
Hsu et. al. have also given considerable sums to the California Democrat Party.
According to state and local records, Hsu has given more than $53,000 to various political efforts in the state since 2004, including $27,600 to the state Democratic Party, $5,000 to 2006 gubernatorial hopeful Steve Westly and $10,000 to Hollywood director Rob Reiner’s “Pre-School for All” campaign, which became Proposition 82 on the June 2006 ballot.
The state party gave $26,600 of that money back three weeks after Hsu donated it in 2004, said Bob Mulholland, a party consultant.
“Mr. Hsu asked for the money to be returned, saying he had made the donation in error,” Mulholland said. “We haven’t returned the $1,000 he gave us earlier this year, but the party will be looking at that contribution.”
Calling the Federal Elections Commission and the California Fair Political Practices Commission, what in the hell have you been doing?
Standard = NOTHING
Flap says there is a political scandal here involving offshore Chinese interests which are not only illegal but subversive to the American politcal system.
Stay tuned…….
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