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  • Ambinder: Obama campaign "helping to place" Hsu story (Barack aide looking for *Bubba's sex life)

    11/08/2007 6:58:42 PM PST · by Libloather · 27 replies · 32+ views
    Chicago Sun Times ^ | 11/08/07 | LYNN SWEET
    Ambinder: Obama campaign "helping to place" Hsu storyNovember 8, 2007 BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON, D.C. — Barack Obama’s presidential campaign “scored a significant hit” against chief rival Hillary Rodham Clinton “by helping to place” a story about tainted Democratic donor Norman Hsu, according to an article about Obama in the December issue of The Atlantic. The story, titled “Teacher and Apprentice” by associate editor Marc Ambinder, describes how Obama campaign staffers were “frustrated” because the press was not covering Clinton “in the way they expected it would.” “…And at a campaign event in Iowa, one of...
  • Hillary takes cash from terror suspects

    11/04/2007 5:19:03 PM PST · by TornadoAlley3 · 27 replies · 176+ views
    wnd.com ^ | 11/04/07 | WND
    Muslim donors targets of federal investigation: Presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has taken thousands of dollars in cash donations from Islamists under federal investigation for terror-financing, money laundering and tax fraud, WND has learned.
  • Hillary Clinton's Chinatown Tangle

    11/02/2007 10:08:19 PM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies · 71+ views
    Time via Yahoo ^ | 10/02/07 | MICHAEL WEISSKOPF
    <p>Last June, Hillary Clinton's campaign gave back $7,000 to Chinese restaurant workers who contributed $1,000 apiece for a political fundraiser.</p>
  • Hsu's case delayed amid speculation of a plea deal {Hillary's Hsu }

    11/02/2007 1:08:27 PM PDT · by SmithL · 22 replies · 50+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/2/7 | John Coté
    REDWOOD CITY - Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu's effort to have his grand theft case from the early 1990s thrown out was delayed today at his attorneys' request. Defense attorney James Brosnahan did not say why he had sought the delay after meeting with the prosecutor and a San Mateo County Superior Court judge. Attorneys on both sides deflected questions about whether they were negotiating a plea that would cover both Hsu's San Mateo County case and criminal charges filed in federal court in New York in September. "There's more to be done. That's all," Brosnahan said as he left...
  • CLINTON DONOR FACES CHINA GRILL (Hillary's "identity politics" scam-a-rama)

    11/02/2007 3:43:02 AM PDT · by Liz · 23 replies · 96+ views
    NY POST ^ | November 2, 2007 | CHUCK BENNETT and MAGGIE HABERMAN With Post Wire Services
    FED ALERT: Prosecutors questioned Hsiao Yen Wang about a shadowy-seeming Chinatown fund-raiser reported on by The Post. The feds are eyeing a Chinatown donor to Clinton's presidential campaign to see if she was "coerced" into being a front for someone else's contribution.--SNIP--The LA Times reported on the April 9 fund-raiser, which netted about $380,000 - some from donors of meager means..... following stories about Clinton fund-raiser Norman Hsu, who has been charged with campaign-finance and other violations.
  • Conservative Bloggers File FEC Complaint Against Hillary Clinton

    11/01/2007 1:49:23 PM PDT · by yorkie · 14 replies · 49+ views
    Human Events ^ | November 1, 2007 | Matt Naugle
    <p>GOP Bloggers' Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan posted their FEC complaint against the Hillary Clinton for President Committee in response to the reports of donors who felt pressure to give money for fear for retribution and a number of poor donors who donated thousands of dollars each to her campaign.</p>
  • Clinton's Fundraiser Raises Questions (AP Smelling Blood In The Water)

    11/01/2007 12:17:34 PM PDT · by My Favorite Headache · 90 replies · 86+ views
    AP ^ | 11-01-2007 | ADAM GOLDMAN and JAMES KUHNHENN
    Clinton's fundraiser raises questions By ADAM GOLDMAN and JAMES KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writers 19 minutes ago NEW YORK - On the wall of Hsiao Yen Wang's apartment, a cramped, 17th-floor public housing unit on the city's Lower East Side, are photographs of her husband, David Guo, a cook who specializes in Fujian cuisine. One photo stands out: Guo shaking Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's hand, a memento from a $1,000-a-person fundraiser for the New York senator held in New York's Chinatown last April. Last week, Wang got another memento — a calling card from a Justice Department criminal investigator. The investigator...
  • Thompson Compares Fund-Raising Of N.Y. Senator With 1996 Scandal

    11/01/2007 12:35:23 AM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 33 replies · 150+ views
    The New York Sun ^ | November 1, 2007 | Josh Gerstein
    Republican presidential candidate who led a Senate inquiry into illegal foreign fund raising in the 1996 presidential campaign, Fred Thompson of Tennessee, is warning that the phenomenon may be repeating itself with Senator Clinton's current White House bid. "From what I read in the papers, it looks to me like some of the same familiar refrains are playing when I look at Senator Clinton's situation," Mr. Thompson told reporters yesterday during his first campaign swing through California. "I'm not going to jump to any conclusions or make any accusations until all the facts are in, but when I see people...
  • Clintons' Chinese Connections (Vanity - Image)

    10/27/2007 4:55:04 PM PDT · by Bon mots · 10 replies · 42+ views
    Me ^ | October 28, 2007 | Bon Mots
  • Michelle Malkin: Profile foreign donors

    10/27/2007 12:07:07 AM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 7 replies · 105+ views
    Washington Times ^ | October 27, 2007 | Michelle Malkin
    Asian-American groups don't like the increased public scrutiny that Hillary Clinton's mysterious Chinese dishwasher donors are getting. To which I say, in words that should be universally understood: Boo-hoo. In the wake of eye-opening investigations by the New York Post and Los Angeles Times of more dubious foreign funny money flowing into Hillary's coffers, ethnic grievance organizations are stepping forward to condemn these stories as examples of "negligent journalism." Yep. The newspapers are guilty of "negligence" because they actually broke news instead of covering it up. Both papers uncovered dishwashers, cooks and other suspect Hillary campaign contributors in New York's...
  • More Peking Duck (Is the Clinton campaign an influence target of Chinese criminal groups?)

    10/25/2007 9:43:17 PM PDT · by Aristotelian · 33 replies · 166+ views
    The American Spectator ^ | 10/26/2007 12:08:40 AM | Lee Cary
    When the Wall Street Journal broke the Yuan Yuen "Norman" Hsu story, some likened Norman to "Johnny" Chung and "Charlie" Trie, and wondered if the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) was passing money again to the Clintons. Now, with the Los Angeles Times' story about Clinton's fundraising in New York City's Chinatown, there's another question to consider: Is the Clinton campaign a target of Asian criminal groups looking for political influence? On August 28, 1990, Hsu claimed he was kidnapped by Raymond "Shrimpboy" Chow. Who is Chow? In December 1992, the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Governmental...
  • Utah connection to Clinton campaign financing scandal

    10/26/2007 1:21:02 PM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 8 replies · 72+ views
    Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 10/26/2007 | Thomas Burr
    The campaign finance scandal triggered by a federal fugitive raising funds for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign has a Utah connection. Clinton's campaign has refunded $9,200 donated by Salt Lake City couple James and Sherlene Dean. Their contribution was among the $850,000 refunded because of the connection with fundraiser Norman Hsu. Hsu was arrested and charged as a scam artist who allegedly bilked investors out of $60 million. He had been a fugitive for 15 years. Hsu's company, Components Limited - which federal prosecutors say was a front for a Ponzi scheme - once paid a company controlled by the...
  • Hsu Seeks to Have California Case Dropped

    10/25/2007 4:03:56 PM PDT · by Libloather · 28 replies · 33+ views
    Malaysia News via Yahoo ^ | 10/26/07 | PAUL ELIAS
    Hsu Seeks to Have Calif. Case DroppedBy PAUL ELIAS, Associated Press Writer AP - Friday, October 26 SAN FRANCISCO - Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu wasn't hiding from anyone over the past few years, his lawyers say. If California authorities really wanted to find him, they could have asked Hillary Rodham Clinton or one of the other prominent Democrats he showered with cash donations. Hsu is asking a judge to toss his 15-year-old felony fraud conviction, arguing that his right to a speedy trial was violated because authorities weren't actively pursuing him. They could easily have arrested Hsu, his lawyers...
  • Contributions to Presidential Candidates from Lobbyists

    10/25/2007 11:16:41 AM PDT · by Right_Wing_Mole_In_Seattle · 11 replies · 40+ views
    Lobbyists Hillary Clinton (D) $517,525 John McCain (R) $314,840 Mitt Romney (R) $215,775 Christopher J. Dodd (D) $211,575 Rudolph W. Giuliani (R) $206,300 Bill Richardson (D) $122,050 Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D) $111,810 Fred Thompson (R) $72,800 Barack Obama (D) $70,249 Duncan Hunter (R) $30,900 John Edwards (D) $21,500 Sam Brownback (R) $17,225 Mike Huckabee (R) $3,664 Tom Tancredo (R) $250
  • HILL'S 700-STRONG WORKFORCE TOPS OBAMA'S

    10/24/2007 6:51:42 AM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 8 replies · 55+ views
    NY Post ^ | October 23, 2007 | GEOFFE EARLE
    Hillary Clinton Inc. has nearly 700 people on the payroll - topping Barack Obama's head count. Clinton has paid 697 people to work for her campaign during the last three months, compared to 631 who have toiled for Obama, according to campaign-disclosure data analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics. Yet Obama has spent $12.6 million on salaries and benefits, compared with Clinton's $3.8 million, according to the CRP. Obama has spent more on TV ads. The figures don't include people who work for Clinton or Obama's PACs or Senate offices. Rudy Giuliani, the top Republican fund-raiser, had 189 people...
  • Hillary's Hurdles: Dubious Donors

    10/24/2007 6:37:54 AM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 3 replies · 21+ views
    NY Post ^ | October 24, 2007 | Michele Malkin
    ASIAN-American groups don't like the increased scrutiny that Hillary Clin ton's mysterious Chinese dishwasher donors are getting. To which I say, in words that should be universally understood: Boo-freaking-hoo. In the wake of eye-opening investigations by The Post and the Los Angeles Times of more dubious foreign funny money flowing into Hill's coffers, ethnic-grievance groups are stepping forward to condemn these stories as examples of "negligent journalism." Yep: The newspapers are guilty of "negligence" because they actually broke news instead of covering it up. Both papers uncovered dishwashers, cooks and other suspect Hillary campaign contributors in Chinatown, Flushing, The Bronx...
  • As Campaigns Chafe at Limits, Donors Might Be in Diapers

    10/23/2007 6:44:12 PM PDT · by Rodm · 12 replies · 29+ views
    washingtonpost.com ^ | 10/23/2007 | Matthew Mosk
    Elrick Williams's toddler niece Carlyn may be one of the youngest contributors to this year's presidential campaign. The 2-year-old gave $2,300 to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). So did her sister and brother, Imara, 13, and Ishmael, 9, and her cousins Chan and Alexis, both 13. Altogether, according to newly released campaign finance reports, the extended family of Williams, a wealthy Chicago financier, handed over nearly a dozen checks in March for the maximum allowed under federal law to Obama.
  • Hsu victims get no refunds from candidates (U.S. Treasury, charities big winners)

    10/23/2007 6:10:12 PM PDT · by Libloather · 9 replies · 50+ views
    Politico.com ^ | 10/23/07 | Ben Smith
    Hsu victims get no refunds from candidatesBy: Ben Smith Oct 23, 2007 05:38 PM EST Source invested $40 million with Hsu in what its backers believed to be an apparel industry venture. Photo: AP When Democratic megadonor Norman Hsu was exposed as a scam artist, Democrats scrambled to get rid of the cash he had shoveled into their campaigns. They gave his contributions away to recipients from Habitat for Humanity to the U.S. Treasury to an upstate New York school for autistic children. There is a set of deserving recipients who haven’t seen a dime, however: Norman Hsu’s victims. A...
  • Hmm: Chinese Dishwashers Gave Clinton Thousands

    10/23/2007 12:50:05 PM PDT · by libstripper · 52 replies · 72+ views
    New York Magazine ^ | October 23, 2007 | New York Magazine
    Not a month after the Norman Hsu flap (and eleven years after the Chinese government supposedly tried to help finance Bill’s reelection), Hillary is on the defensive about taking money from Chinese immigrant benefactors. This time, it looks even more awkward. As the L.A. Times reported late last week, the candidate’s fund-raising swing through the Chinese community of New York resulted in $500 to $2,300 donations from people identified as “dishwashers, waiters and street stall hawkers.” Of the 150 donors on paper, 50 couldn’t be located, and at least one openly says he hasn’t contributed to the campaign. An April...
  • Clinton campaign fundraising

    10/22/2007 3:28:15 PM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 11 replies · 70+ views
    LA Times ^ | Oct 22, 2007 | Hamburger
    Clinton campaign fundraising Transcript: Times staff writers Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger and National Editor Scott Kraft answered readers' questions on Hillary Clinton's fundraising machine and its hiccups along the way October 22. October 22, 2007 2007-10-22 11:02:04.0 Administrator2: Hello and welcome to the Politics Chat! We're here live with Scott Kraft, Peter Nicholas, Tom Hamburger and Johanna Neuman! 2007-10-22 11:02:39.0 Administrator2: Welcome Scott, Peter, Tom, and Johanna! 2007-10-22 11:03:16.0 Administrator2: Feel free to submit your questions now! 2007-10-22 11:03:18.0 Tom Hamburger: glad to be here 2007-10-22 11:03:21.0 Scott Kraft: Tom and Peter: You've been covering the fundraising of presidential...
  • Clinton Rakes in Illegal Chinatown Donations, Drive-Bys Ignore

    10/22/2007 3:21:58 PM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 26 replies · 245+ views
    Rush Limbaugh ^ | October 22, 2007 | Rush
    RUSH: Now, folks, I want to say just a little bit more about the "unfairness," the "inaccuracy," whatever you want to call it from the Drive-By Media of the Harry Reid smear letter auction with my matching donation now generating $4.2 million for the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation. In anybody's judgment, that's huge news, especially since it involved a skirmish between me and the Senate majority leader. The amount of coverage that this has received, especially accurate coverage, is such that you could put it in a thimble. Well, maybe a syringe, but certainly nothing larger than that. But the...
  • Clinton defends questionable fundraising

    10/22/2007 7:37:06 AM PDT · by libstripper · 42 replies · 28+ views
    Newsday ^ | October 22, 2007 | GLENN THRUSH
    WASHINGTON - A defiant Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says she has no intention of curtailing her fundraising in the Chinese community despite reports that she accepted cash from dozens of questionable donors in Chinatown earlier this year. The Los Angeles Times has reported that Clinton had received about 150 donations of between $500 and $2,000 each from dishwashers, street vendors and other low-wage workers. Of the contributions examined, one-third of the donors could not be found and a $1,000 donor denied giving a contribution, according to the report. "I represent New York and New York is a symbol of the...
  • Edwards Attacks Clinton on Questionable Contributions

    10/20/2007 3:11:29 PM PDT · by magellan · 26 replies · 115+ views
    ABC News ^ | October 19, 2007 | Raelyn Johnson
    After an article in Friday's "Los Angeles Times" revealed that Clinton received large donations from poor residents living in New York City's Chinatown, the Edwards campaign pounced on the opportunity to bring more attention to the questionable contributions. "This morning we all read in L.A. Times that many Clinton campaign contributions are raising eyebrows again. Many of their donors are not even registered to vote, and at least one denied even making any contribution at all," Edwards Campaign Manager David Bonior said in a statement on Friday. "Senator Clinton has said public financing is the answer. Senator Edwards has opted...
  • For Hillary, There's No Such Thing as Dirty Money

    10/20/2007 10:25:34 AM PDT · by Eva · 74 replies · 155+ views
    Nation ^ | October 1, 2007 | Nicholas von Hoffman
    With an endorsement of sorts from George Bush, Hillary has now rounded up about all the big names and moneybags in Washington politics. The President predicts she will get the Democratic nomination, and everything seems to be going her way. Never has the adjective "golden" found a more apposite noun to modify than "Ms. Clinton." The woman has always had an affinity for gold. You can trace her appetite for bling back to her Arkansas days, when she was a partner in the Rose Law Firm. Questions arose about her billing clients, which have not yet been satisfactorily answered. Nor...
  • Clinton Returned $7,000, Campaign Says (Chinese Money)

    10/20/2007 7:00:21 AM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 64 replies · 26+ views
    New York Times ^ | October 20, 2007 | PATRICK HEALY
    Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign returned $7,000 in donations last spring that were linked to a fund-raising event in Chinatown in New York City, campaign officials said yesterday, acknowledging another instance where questionable donors came into Mrs. Clinton’s political orbit. unlike Mrs. Clinton’s trouble with the former fund-raiser Norman Hsu — whose extensive legal problems and dubious fund-raising practices came as a surprise — her campaign identified the concerns about the Chinatown fund-raising on its own, campaign officials said. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that it had reviewed the cases of more than 150 donors apparently linked to...
  • An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton

    10/19/2007 12:29:32 AM PDT · by CutePuppy · 51 replies · 110+ views
    LATimes ^ | October 19, 2007 | Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger
    An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton The candidate's unparalleled fundraising success relies largely on the least-affluent residents of New York's Chinatown - some of whom can't be tracked down. NEW YORK -- Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door. And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes. All three locations, along with scores...
  • Clinton's Black-Box Candidacy (More Hsu related scandal)

    10/19/2007 6:24:13 PM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 22 replies · 390+ views
    INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | 10/19/2007 | IBD
    Election 2008: An ambitious presidential front-runner. A hot scramble for campaign cash. A corner-cutting past. And now red lights are flashing that she could be in hock to foreign interests. This is going downhill fast. How else does one explain the cash rolling in to Hillary Clinton's campaign from residents of Manhattan's impoverished Chinatown? The Los Angeles Times on Friday uncovered an amazingly generous spirit of giving from Fujianese immigrant dishwashers and trinket sellers, hundreds of whom "spontaneously" coughed up $1,000 or $2,000 apiece for Clinton's presidential campaign. The $380,000 from their giving dwarfed the $24,000 that John Kerry raised...
  • Another Hsu drops: Hillary earmarked big chunk of cash for the New Schoolposted

    10/19/2007 1:56:37 PM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 12 replies · 31+ views
    Hot Air ^ | Oct 19, 2007 | Bryan
    Hey Hillary, what’s that big mark on your ear? It looks like $950,000 for a school that your favorite fundraiser just happens to have been a board member of. And in the case of the New School in Greenwich Village, it turned out to have some national resonance: Norman Hsu, a major Democratic donor active in Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign and a New School trustee, was found to be a fugitive who had skipped out after a felony theft conviction in California 15 years ago. Here’s the bill, S.1710. It’s the Labor/HHS/Education spending bill that’s being debated in...
  • An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton

    10/19/2007 5:37:33 AM PDT · by bilhosty · 96 replies · 238+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 10/19/2007 | Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger
    Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door. And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge, where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals and bargain-basement clothes. All three locations, along with scores of others scattered throughout some of the poorest Chinese neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, have been swept by an extraordinary impulse to shower money on one particular presidential candidate -- Democratic...
  • Hillary's Mystery Money Men (Alan Quasha, Hassan Nemazee)

    10/18/2007 4:19:55 PM PDT · by Libloather · 7 replies · 3,037+ views
    Yahoo ^ | 10/18/07 | Russ Baker & Adam Federman
    Hillary's Mystery Money MenRuss Baker & Adam Federman Thu Oct 18, 2:04 PM ET The Nation -- In the Clintons' pursuit of power, there is no such thing as a strange bedfellow. One recently exposed inamorata was Norman Hsu, the mysterious businessman from Hong Kong who brought in $850,000 to Hillary Clinton's campaign before being unmasked as a fugitive. Her campaign dismissed Hsu as someone who'd slipped through the cracks of an otherwise unimpeachable system for vetting donors, and perhaps he was. The same cannot be said for the notorious financier Alan Quasha, whose involvement with Clinton is at least...
  • Hillary's Mystery Money Men(long read)

    10/18/2007 4:11:01 PM PDT · by vietvet67 · 3 replies · 17+ views
    The Nation ^ | posted October 18, 2007 (November 5, 2007 issue) | Russ Baker & Adam Federman
    In the Clintons' pursuit of power, there is no such thing as a strange bedfellow. One recently exposed inamorata was Norman Hsu, the mysterious businessman from Hong Kong who brought in $850,000 to Hillary Clinton's campaign before being unmasked as a fugitive. Her campaign dismissed Hsu as someone who'd slipped through the cracks of an otherwise unimpeachable system for vetting donors, and perhaps he was. The same cannot be said for the notorious financier Alan Quasha, whose involvement with Clinton is at least as substantial--and still under wraps. Political junkies will recall Quasha as the controversial figure who bailed out...
  • Democratic donor Norman Hsu attempted suicide on run

    10/18/2007 5:28:21 AM PDT · by Libloather · 16 replies · 98+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | 10/18/07 | NANCY DILLON
    Democratic donor Norman Hsu attempted suicide on runBY NANCY DILLON DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU CHIEF Thursday, October 18th 2007, 4:00 AM Jailed fund-raiser Norman Hsu began popping pills on his way out to California for a court appearance last month and continued to down over-the-counter drugs in a failed suicide attempt when he went on the run, the Daily News has learned. Hsu's effort to kill himself is detailed in court papers obtained Wednesday by The News. The "excessive number of over-the-counter pills" eventually led Hsu's kidneys to fail and induced severe delirium. He was in such bad shape...
  • Hillary ...missing bodies

    10/18/2007 5:12:07 AM PDT · by mo · 10 replies · 31+ views
    zimbio.com ^ | 10/01/07 | Marc Chamot
    While we no longer need to worry about the whereabouts of the habitually slippery Norman Hsu, there's another central figure in this Democratic fundraising/investment fraud scandal that may have slithered away amid the sensational hubbub. Winkle Paw, Hsu's most delightfully named associate, seems to have turned up missing.
  • Donor Bundling Emerges As Major Ill in '08 Race

    10/18/2007 1:56:29 AM PDT · by CutePuppy · 5 replies · 101+ views
    Wall Street Journal (no subscription) ^ | October 18, 2007 | Brody Mullins
    WASHINGTON -- The bundling of political donations once was an innocuous play in the game book of Washington political operatives. Now, the fund-raising practice has grown so widespread, and some of its practitioners so brazen, that bundling has become the chief source of abuse in the American campaign-finance system. The strange case of Norman Hsu, the textile-importer-turned-fugitive who cobbled together $800,000 in contributions for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, is the tip of the iceberg. Candidates for offices from county commissioner to U.S. president are increasingly turning to bundlers -- individuals who ask friends, family and business associates for...
  • Refunds sour some donors on giving (those dragged into the Norman Hsu mess)

    10/17/2007 4:16:01 PM PDT · by Libloather · 8 replies · 24+ views
    Politico.com ^ | 10/16/07 | Kenneth P. Vogel, Jeanne Cummings, David Paul Kuhn
    Refunds sour some donors on givingBy: Kenneth P. Vogel and Jeanne Cummings and David Paul Kuhn Updated: October 17, 2007 12:23 PM EST Clinton, considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, acted quickly to try to distance herself from Hsu, Photo: AP In an effort to distance herself from Norman Hsu, Hillary Rodham Clinton has returned contributions solicited by the disgraced bundler. But now, the donors have been dragged into the mess, thanks to a list of refunded contributions included in the latest Clinton presidential campaign financial report. Many on the list didn’t want to talk about their rejected contributions,...
  • When Hillary's Right, She's Right

    10/17/2007 1:22:53 PM PDT · by Bob Leibowitz · 2 replies · 17+ views
    Leibowitz's Canticle ^ | October 17, 2007 | Leibowitz
    In September, when the Clinton Campaign committed to return all contributions bundled by con-man Norman Hsu, many pundits wondered where the $800,000 would go once returned. In a conference call shortly after Hsu made news, Mrs. Clinton announced her intention to accept more donations from the same contributors. "We're not asking that that be done. But I believe that the vast majority of those 200-plus donors are perfectly capable of making up their own minds about what they will or won't do going forward." Well, they certainly did make up their own minds. *** Faced with the opportunity of donating...
  • Hillary's 3Q Refunds Part III: Pry It From My Senate Campaign's Cold, Dead Hands

    10/17/2007 9:16:18 AM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 12 replies · 80+ views
    Suitably Flip ^ | Oct 17, 2007 | Flip
    Not only are the 249 refunds sent by the Clinton campaign to Hsu-connected donors riddled with inaccurate mailing addresses, but now the campaign is vowing to keep any money these donors gave to her Senate campaign or to HillPAC (more than a quarter million dollars, according to the LA Times). I noted Monday night that even among just the 26 Hsu contributors we knew about prior to the Q3 filing, there was a refund discrepancy of $125,000 related to the Senate and PAC money. Turns out at least 50 other Hsu donors also sent part of their contributions through these...
  • Details of Candidates’ Spending Are Released

    10/17/2007 6:28:00 AM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 4 replies · 14+ views
    NY Times ^ | October 17, 2007 | MICHAEL LUO
    Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign disclosed refunds totaling $800,000 to more than 200 contributors, most of them linked to Norman Hsu, the jailed former Democratic fund-raiser. The list of those receiving refunds shed light on the scope of Mr. Hsu’s sprawling, and sometimes convoluted, network of contacts, which included a New York investment manager, a Hollywood actress and a Brooklyn housekeeper. Some donors expressed bewilderment at having their checks returned, saying they had never met Mr. Hsu. Neelam Narang, a homemaker in Fairfield, Conn., said she gave $1,000 to Mrs. Clinton last May at the behest of a friend, who apparently...
  • Not all Hsu-linked funds are rejected

    10/17/2007 6:12:12 AM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 8 replies · 21+ views
    LA Times ^ | October 17, 2007 | Chuck Neubauer
    A Clinton aide says there are no plans to refund Senate contributions from donors linked to the alleged swindler. Hillary Rodham Clinton returned more than $800,000 in contributions donated to her presidential campaign that were arranged by alleged swindler Norman Hsu. But campaign officials said Tuesday they had no plans to return more than $260,000 that many of the same donors gave to her Senate political accounts. Officials said they would return those contributions only if requested to do so by individual contributors. A Los Angeles Times analysis found that 77 donors whose contributions to the presidential campaign were returned...
  • Report Reveals New Details About Hsu Fundraising (filed by Mrs. Bill Clinton)

    10/16/2007 3:33:46 PM PDT · by Libloather · 17 replies · 84+ views
    Fox Reno ^ | 10/16/07
    Report Reveals New Details About Hsu FundraisingUPDATED: 1:24 pm PDT October 16, 2007 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A newly-released campaign-finance report filed by presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is shedding light on Norman Hsu's political network. The disgraced democratic fundraiser faces fraud charges in California and New York. Senator Clinton has refunded more than $800,000 in campaign contributions delivered by Hsu. Clinton's latest report shows the money came from 249 of Hsu's associates. Most of them are Californians, but New York investors were also major participants in Hsu's financial operations. Some of those listed say they only contributed because they felt pressured...
  • Clinton report lists refunds to 249 Hsu donors

    10/16/2007 1:39:41 AM PDT · by CutePuppy · 25 replies · 78+ views
    LATimes ^ | October 16, 2007 | Tom Hamburger, Robin Fields and Chuck Neubauer
    Clinton report lists refunds to 249 Hsu donors Much of the more than $800,000 that the campaign sent back ... came from California. WASHINGTON -- The full extent of accused swindler Norman Hsu's political network was revealed for the first time Monday in campaign finance reports filed by presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who refunded $804,850 in contributions from 249 Hsu associates. The donors came from 22 states and Washington, D.C., but Californians accounted for the largest amount refunded from the Hsu network, $308,000. New Yorkers contributed $286,000, and $55,000 came from donors in New Jersey and Connecticut....
  • Thompson 'Terrible' in Chinagate Probe, Critics Say

    10/15/2007 7:57:12 PM PDT · by rmlew · 207 replies · 60+ views
    Cybercast News Service ^ | October 10, 2007 | Fred Lucas
    (CNSNews.com) - On Tuesday, the day Fred Thompson made his debate debut in the 2008 presidential race, two conservative commentators criticized how the former Tennessee senator handled the 1990s Senate probe into Clinton campaign fundraising corruption. Thompson was chairman of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in 1997, when the committee probed Chinese money that allegedly poured into the 1996 re-election campaign of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. "Had there been a legitimate investigation of Chinese money laundering, the results would have been very different from the results of Monica Lewinsky," said John Gizzi, political editor for Human...
  • Hillary's 3rd Quarter Refunds: Large, But Lacking

    10/15/2007 8:57:36 PM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 7 replies · 108+ views
    Suitably Flip ^ | Oct 15, 2007 | Flip
    Hillary's 3rd Quarter Refunds: Large, But Lacking Hoo boy, this is one meaty filing. Senator previously Clinton vowed to return $850,000 in Hsu-connected contributions to some 260 donors. Her 3rd quarter filing shows refunds to no fewer than 487 individuals for a total of $1.24 million. This will take a little time to chew through, but we now have our arms around the 200+ missing Hsu donors and the several hundred thousand missing dollars. It's just a matter of eliminating the unrelated refunds (accidental overpayments and the like) before we'll have a list of the previously unknown Hsu-connected donors to...
  • Tom Vilsack, Come On Down!

    10/15/2007 2:36:52 PM PDT · by Presbyterian Reporter · 8 replies · 315+ views
    Suitably Flip ^ | Oct 15, 2007 | Flip
    Tom Vilsack, Come On Down! You're the first Norman Hsu recipient to play 3rd Quarter Reconciliation! While no longer an active candidate for President, Vilsack received a total of $4,300 from Hsu and his previously identified suspected straw donors, between May 3rd and May 10th of this year. Until now, I'd only known about $3,800 of it, despite each of these donors being on the list, since the Vilsack campaign had recorded Soe Win Lee's name incorrectly at the time of her contribution. Happily, Lee's name appears to have been spelled properly on the refund, as filed minutes ago by...
  • Officials Detail Contents Of Hsu's Seized Mementos

    10/11/2007 11:51:52 PM PDT · by NautiNurse · 26 replies · 856+ views
    WSJ ^ | 12 October 2007 | IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN
    Among the items in Norman Hsu's personal collection of Clinton memorabilia: CDs of presentations made by Hillary Clinton as well as an envelope of thank-you notes from the Democratic presidential front-runner... One envelope was devoted to letters from New York Sen. Clinton, thanking Mr. Hsu, who was one of her biggest fund-raisers. The Clinton campaign has said it would return to donors the money Mr. Hsu helped raise. Mr. Hsu had several CDs and a video of Mrs. Clinton giving presentations in New York. Another CD was entitled "Merle Haggard Hillary." Mr. Haggard wrote a song for Sen. Clinton earlier...
  • Hsu's love of wine and Clinton on display

    10/11/2007 2:22:29 AM PDT · by CutePuppy · 33 replies · 920+ views
    LATimes ^ | October 11, 2007 | Robin Fields and Chuck Neubauer
    More than 180 pricey bottles and a saxophone believed to have been signed by the former president were seized from his home, documents show. Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu had a well-known affection for fine living and all things Clinton. And his collector's taste and eye were on display Wednesday, when federal authorities unsealed documents showing they had seized more than 180 bottles of pricey wine from Hsu's New York apartment, as well as a saxophone believed to have been autographed by President Clinton. Experts valued the wine collection -- which includes dozens of bottles of Chateau Lafite Rothschild and...
  • Monday Morning Quarterback: Fred's First Debate

    10/08/2007 10:58:57 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 8 replies · 566+ views
    Pajamas Media ^ | October 8, 2007 | Bill Bradley
    Iraq continues to bubble, with the Iraqi government on Sunday declaring Blackwater USA very much in the wrong in last month’s big shooting incident in Baghdad — which is a problem for both George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton — and the presidential campaign spotlight this week is on Fred Thompson, who takes part in his first debate on Tuesday night in Dearborn, Michigan. After many months of almost diving into the race, while paddling around the shallow end of the pool, the former Tennessee senator and Law & Order star, seen by many on the right as a savior...
  • Obama courted Hsu (Hi$$ary wasn't the only RAT after Chicom funny money)

    10/08/2007 3:55:55 PM PDT · by Libloather · 30 replies · 381+ views
    Politico.com ^ | 10/08/07 | Mike Allen
    Obama courted HsuBy: Mike Allen Oct 8, 2007 10:02 AM EST Julianna Smoot, national finance director of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, originally sought the support of Norman Hsu, the top fund-raiser for Hillary Clinton who is now the subject of a federal criminal complaint accusing him of wire, mail and election fraud. Obama’s campaign tells Politico that the overture was not serious, but it could take some of the heat off the Clinton campaign for inadequate vetting of Hsu, who also supported many leading Democratic senators. Hsu is a “HillRaiser,” meaning that he raised at least $100,000 for her presidential...
  • Democrats Keep Dirty Money ( Norman Hsu, Peter Paul, William Lerach...)

    10/08/2007 11:18:01 AM PDT · by george76 · 4 replies · 165+ views
    the influence peddler ^ | October 08, 2007 | The Editor
    Norman Hsu, Peter Paul, William Lerach.. all big criminal donors to Democratic candidates. In the case of Lerach's cash at least, the DNC has decided not to return his contributions: A spokesman for the Democratic National Committee said more than $1 million in donations from attorneys who pleaded guilty or have been indicted on federal charges for an alleged $11.8 million kickback scheme will not be returned. The donations, according to Federal Election Commission and state campaign finance databases, come from William S. Lerach, totaling $600,000 between 1998 and 2002, and from Melvyn Weiss, for a total of $25,000 in...
  • All of Norman Hsu's Contributions

    10/07/2007 5:54:53 PM PDT · by Perdogg · 4 replies · 127+ views
    newsmeat.com ^ | 10.07.07
    Hsu, Norman New York , NY 10012Next Components Ltd/Director KENNEDY, PATRICK J (D)House (RI 01)FRIENDS OF PATRICK J. KENNEDY INC. $1,000primary 06/28/07 HSU, NORMAN NEW YORK , NY 10012BECAUSE.../DIRECTOR UDALL, MARK E (D)Senate - COUDALL FOR COLORADO INC $1,000primary 06/25/07 Hsu, Norman New York , NY 10012Because...a division of Next compo/ HONDA, MIKE (D)House (CA 15)MIKE HONDA FOR CONGRESS $1,000primary 06/25/07 HSU, NORMAN NEW YORK , NY 10012NEXT COMPONENTS, LTD./PARTNER ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVISON IV (D)Senate - WVFRIENDS OF JAY ROCKEFELLER $300primary 06/08/07 HSU, NORMAN NEW YORK , NY 10012NEXT COMPONENTS, LTD./PARTNER ROCKEFELLER, JOHN DAVISON IV (D)Senate - WVFRIENDS OF...