Posted on 09/05/2007 10:11:23 AM PDT by Nachum
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) - Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu failed to appear Wednesday for a bail hearing and a judge issued a new warrant for his arrest. Hsu forfeits the $2 million bail he posted last week. Hsu had 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.
(This version CORRECTS Corrects that Hsu forfeits bail, sted bail reduction request.)
When can we say that Republicans throw theirs in jail while Democrats let them flee the country?
When can we turn the "culture of corruption" back onto the Democrats?
-PJ
I think this is great news. It will keep the story going.
This guy is probably sleeping with the fishes by now,,,When it comes to Clinton scandals there are never any answers to be found,just a lot of loose strings,,,,just ask Vince Foster..........
The judge needs to be thrown out of office.
Even a child could figure it out, Check Ft. Marcy park, I’m sure he’s there with a gun in his right hand if he’s left-handed or visa versa !
Maybe this clown's offshore accounts should be checked for recent deposits ?
We are not quiet on it.
- Dan Rather is still looking for his superscript.
- Katy is getting her hair done.
Free Republic to the rescue.
Pining for the Fjords?
Doing the backstroke...
With the way these cockroaches connected to the clintons flee the country they should have their own airline.
Chinamerica Airlines.....Come flee with us.
$10 says NBC leads with the B-52 story and uses this as a reader segue to a commercial
Send the DOG after him.
The curious case of Norman Hsu
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Sep 5, 2007 3:00 AM (7 hrs ago)
by The San Francisco Examiner
SAN FRANCISCO (Map, News) - It is surely among the most astonishing developments of the present campaign season that Norman Hsu, a star Democratic fundraiser, has been on the lam for 15 years after pleading no contest to felony grand theft charges. He faced a three-year California prison sentence when he fled America.
Hsu’s case raises so many disturbing questions that it is difficult to know where best to begin. But let’s start with this: Where was the U.S. Department of Justice for the last 15 years? Hsu’s plea was to California charges, but pleading no contest to charges of running a Ponzi scheme designed to defraud investors of $1 million and then disappearing overseas surely merited federal attention.
Did California authorities fail to inform the feds? Or did the feds just look the other way? Somebody in California and Washington needs to step forward to answer these questions.
Then there is the question of what Hsu has actually been doing for these many years on the lam. Prosecutors have said they thought Hsu skeedaddled to Hong Kong where he ran an operation that imported latex gloves.
At some point thereafter, Hsu ended up in New York, allegedly in the fashion industry, but his main mark has been made with lavish campaign contributions to Democratic candidates and associated groups.
Considering the many contact points between the 1996 Clinton re-election campaign and Chinese-connected donors such as Johnny Chang, federal officials should get some credible answers about Hsu’s activities during those years before he landed in Manhattan rubbing elbows with the bright lights of Democratic politics. This is doubly important because it is hard to find a leading light among the Democrats who hasn’t benefited from Hsu’s seemingly boundless largesse.
New York blogger Flip Pidot of SuitablyFlip.com went beyond Federal Election Commission data to the National Institute on Money in State Politics and various municipal databases to total Hsu contributions. He came up with nearly $1.6 million in donations, all to Democrats and Democratic organizations. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., is by far the recipient of the biggest chunk of Hsu’s money and influence. Clinton has pledged to give to charity the nearly $23,000 she received directly from Hsu but she is keeping the remainder — nearly $152,000 in contributions from Hsu associates.
Next comes New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, each with $60,100 in direct Hsu contributions. Reportedly, Spitzer is returning $17,000 and Cuomo $10,000. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Clinton’s leading rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, got $7,000 directly from Hsu and another $24,600 from Hsu associates. Obama is not returning the Hsu money. And among the other recipients is San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ($7,500, mostly from Hsu associates).
I’m betting the farm that “the judge” in this case is a Democrat (it is Kalefornia) and he just felt it was the “right thing to do” in granting bail.
It seems to me that in instances where bail needs to be set extremely high, that it might not be such a good idea to grant bail AT ALL!!!!
Or that global warming caused him to flee.
Hillary, Bill and the Democratic Party in general is UTTERLY CORRUPT, and a danger to liberty as we know it...
But, since they support the faggot agenda, they will get a complete pass on this from the mainstream (and largely gay) media.
By the way, did ya hear about the Gay Republican?
CLINTON LEGACY CRIME STATS
- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton’s presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
*******- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122 ***************DING DING DING
We cannot....
When the editorial Staff of the New York Times calls ITSELF “the Gay Mafia”, you have a problem....
The largely Gay MSM will do EVERYTHING in thier power to bury this, as it doesn’t help the advancement of the Gay Agenda.
And in the end, that’s what EVERYTHING has been about since the Gay Marriage debates of the 2000 election, INCLUDING most of the opposition to the war....
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