Posted on 08/31/2007 9:17:17 AM PDT by STARWISE
More info:
HSU'S "SHADOWY BUSINESSES" AND "UNSAVORY EPISODES": Money has brought both trappings and trouble for Norman Hsu. Major contributions to the campaigns of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other candidates have made the apparel executive an insider in elite political circles. He shows up in cozy pictures with politicians, at lavish fundraising events, and on the boards of prestigious organizations. But Hsu's history includes more unsavory episodes and associations. In 1990, he allegedly was kidnapped by Chinese gang members in San Francisco as part of an apparent effort to collect a debt. A year and a half later, he pleaded no contest to a charge of fleecing investors in what authorities called a Ponzi scheme of fraud. Along the way, he left a bankruptcy filing and bitter investors who accused him of making off with their savings. Los Angeles Times: Wealth, mystery surround donor Hsu
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/08/31/cnn-political-ticker-am-52/
PING ~~!
OK, I’m probably dreaming here... but I wonder if he might get off lightly in exchange for certain testimony re: campaign finance improprieties...?
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295420,00.html
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — A top Democratic fundraiser wanted as a fugitive in California turned himself in Friday to face a grand theft charge.
A judge in San Mateo County Superior Court 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 here Friday following reports that he had skipped his sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge. In the ensuing years, he became a top donor to numerous Democratic candidates, including presidential contenders Hilary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
Clinton joined other candidates this week in returning thousands of dollars raised by Hsu, but the allegations distracted her campaign just as it prepared to ramp up for the intense post-Labor Day stretch.
Press release (WOOHOOO!)
Statement by Norman Hsu’s Attorney - Press Release
(Hsu surrenders to authorities in California) ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889426/posts
Of course, nothing follows...he'll disappear and Hillary will skate.
It’s all over the place..
Now watch the leftist media ignore it as best they can..
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“It’s all over the place..
Now watch the leftist media ignore it as best they can..”
Those of us who were around during the Clintoon years recognize a pattern used during those years.
The Friday or Saturday before a major 3 day holiday, the mediots release potential bad news re the Clintoons.
No one but Freepers will read it and get upset.
By next Tuesday only Doug from Upland will remember what happened.
Hill may say she was in the dark about his past but she has SS protection. Wouldn’t the SS know his history if he came into her orbit?
The SS never turned away any criminal donors during their co presidency.
Why would the SS turn this criminal away?
Not turn away but tell Hill he was a criminal. Then her denials would be proven bogus. She is playing all innocent on this.
Let’s not let them forget it. Keep pounding away!
You will not let these scandals fade away.
However, it is amazing how many Freepers haven’t a clue about Peter Paul.
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