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Hillary Clinton Watch: Norman Hsu Case Postponed Amid Rumors of a Plea Deal
Norman Hsu is escorted into a Redwood City, Calif., courtroom, on Sept. 21, 2007. Hsu, the jailed Democratic fundraiser who spent 15 years on the lam before finally being caught, has been arguing that government authorities made such little effort to run him down while he hobnobbed prominently with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other political luminaries that his rights to a speedy trial were violated.
The case has been postponed until January but a plea deal is possible between now and then. The longer this case lingers the more POTENTIAL damage it does to Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign.
The federal case based out of New York seems to have legs of its own. California’s Democrat Attorney General Jerry Brown may wish this embarassment to simply go away.
Since former President Bill Clinton has not released the list of donors to his Presidential Library, might Hsu and his Chinese minions somehow be linked to donations there?
And, if there is a growing federal criminal investigation into the New York City Chinese immigrant donations to Hillary’s campaign, there will be plenty of stories for her campaign to deflect.
Stay tuned…….
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Unlikely Chinatown Campaign Contributions Raise More Questions Part Two
Powerline (Via Captain Ed) has the continuing story:Chinatown, part 2Yesterday’s New York Times reported that the Clinton campaign returned $7,000 of the $380,000 in Chinatown money that we noted yesterday. Sweetness and Light comments here; Hot AIr comments here.
And, from the New York Post: HILL’S CASH EYED AS CHINESE-LAUNDERED
Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been raising huge piles of money in Chinatown, but some of it has come from donors who can’t be located or who were improperly repaid for their contributions, according to The Post and other reports.
A search of Chinatown donors yesterday by The Post found several bogus addresses and some contributions that raised eyebrows.
Shin K. Cheng is listed twice in federal records for giving $1,000 donations to Clinton’s campaign on April 17.
But the address recorded on campaign reports is a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases, hemorrhoids and skin disease.
No one at the address knew of a Shin K. Cheng.
Another donation came from a Shih Kan Chang on Canal Street. But the address listed is a shop that sells knock-off watches and other pirated goods. The sales clerk there did not know the donor.
Hsiao Yen Wang, a cook in Chinatown, is listed as giving Clinton $1,000 on April 13. Contacted yesterday, she told The Post she had written a check.
But it was on behalf of a man named David Guo, president of the Fujian American Cuisine Council, and Wang told The Post that Guo had repaid her for the $1,000 contribution.
Such “straw donations” are strictly prohibited by federal law.
Straw donations, accepting donations from Norman Hsu, a convicted felon, Charlie Trie and the list of campaign ethical slime goes on and on.
When will the Federal Elections Commission start to do the job they were appointed to do? What about a federal Grand Jury in New York? The FBI?
Who are these characters like David Guo and the Fujian American Cuisine Council? Fronts for the Chinese government? Or Chinese criminal elements?
The questions are many but the answers are slow to arrive.
Why?
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Convicted Criminal Sandy Berger Hired by Hillary Campaign
He’s back: Sandy Berger now advising Hillary Clinton
Sandy Berger, who stole highly classified terrorism documents from the National Archives, destroyed them and lied to investigators, is now an adviser to presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Berger, who was fired from John Kerry’s presidential campaign when the scandal broke in 2004, has assumed a similar role in Clinton’s campaign, even though his security clearance has been suspended until September 2008. This is raising eyebrows even among Clinton’s admirers.
“It shows poor judgment and a lack of regard for Berger’s serious misdeeds,†said law professor Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University, who nonetheless called Clinton “by far the most impressive candidate in the Democratic field.â€
So, what else is NEW? It is just more Clinton SLEAZE.
First, there was Norman Hsu and now Sandy “Docs in the Socks” Berger.
Is this ARROGANCE to the voters, you ask? Hillary “BITCH SLAPPED” this Iowa voter this weekend.
Some are asking if some of Bill’s BIMBO ERUPTIONS will make a return?
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Bill and Hillary Clinton: Double Trouble
Bill And Hil: Up To Their Old Tricks
Remember the rolling disclosures of the last presidency, when the Clintons would release just enough information after a scandal broke to placate the pliant media? Well, here they go again.
Only this time, they are telegraphing that they will keep certain things altogether secret should they return to the White House as co-presidents. And you thought they couldn’t be more brazen.
Both Clintons, for example, have refused to disclose the names of donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation. Bill says he will remain mum about all past donors, though he didn’t say that in so many words. As usual, you have to closely parse his words. Speaking of Hillary, he said, “If she gets elected president, I will disclose the contributions that people make from there going forward.”
Catch that? He will let the public know about any donations going forward — that is, after January 2009 — but not one donation before then. The $100 million-plus in donations raised for his library, “global initiatives” and other Clinton activities until that point will remain anonymous. In short, he really doesn’t plan to disclose a thing.
The same OLD TRICKS by the Dynamic Duo of Sleaze.
The latest in the Hsu Scandal.
Federal authorities have seized shady political fund-raiser Norman Hsu’s New York City bank accounts and the contents of his $8,000-a-month apartment, a lawyer said yesterday.
Will Norman start to HSU-SING about the Clinton Cabal and the Democrat Party?
Stay tuned as this story progresses…….
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Norman Hsu Wants Plea Deal Withdrawn
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.
Norman Hsu wants a do-over on grand-theft case
Good luck Norman……
And then there are all of those federal charges, including the Clinton investigation.
Stay tuned……..
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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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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…..
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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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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.
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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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