Posted on 09/06/2007 9:00:14 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO -- Fugitive political fundraiser Norman Hsu, who skipped out on San Mateo County authorities this week rather than face sentencing in a fraud scheme, was apprehended tonight 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's attorney told state prosecutors that he 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.
Hsu's disappearing act seemed to be a reprise of a move he pulled in 1992, when he failed to show up for sentencing in the same grand theft case. Hsu was facing up to three years in state prison, a $10,000 fine and restitution payments after pleading no contest in 1992 to a single count of grand theft in what prosecutors described as a $1 million fraud scheme.
But while free on bail after his plea, Hsu dropped from sight for 15 years, apparently spending time in Hong Kong, the Philippines and Taiwan, only to emerge in recent years as a seemingly wealthy New York resident who donated generously in Democratic political campaigns, regularly attended fundraisers and was photographed with party leaders.
A week ago, Hsu, 56, surrendered to San Mateo County sheriff's deputies in Redwood City after press accounts linked him to the earlier grand theft case. He spent a few hours in county jail before posting $2 million bail and agreeing to surrender his passport.
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Wow, what an amateur. I figured he’d be in China.
This criminal is about to sing.
If the Hsu fits...
Hsu got some splainin’ to do!!!!!!!!!
Maybe he was trying to run from Arkancide.
Paging DFU
Hsu is neither dead nor living the high life in Hong Kong.
I’m amazed at this turn of events.
Someone please take away his shoelaces and his belt less he wind up like Kathleen Willey's cat....
Maybe it’s a look-alike like Saddam used at times.
ditto!
Put him in solitary so he doesn’t have his neck slit by a prison operative.
I was expecting to learn that he shot himself in the back of the head a couple of times before jumping out of a window.
BTW, great catch. Don’t see this story anywhere else.
Well, well, well...
Apparently he is still alive.
He was probably headed into rehab.
It’s the new thing.
Has it registered yet what might come forth if they can cut a deal with this guy to cough up ALL his information on his “fundraising habits”....OH MAN! I am hoping that maybe, just maybe, someone has pulled the switch on the ol’ Clinton Corruption machine. I would make sure this guy is fed second hand food (others ate before him out of the same prepared food) and nuns for guards...his life won’t be worth the arrest warrant if he agrees to talk. A 24 hour surveillance hidden camera needs to be on him also.
I officially have gone truly paranoid over the Clintons, because the thought of a double did cross my mind...
China is probably the last place he would want to go. The chicoms want him DEAD to erase any connections and/or repercussions against China.
Klintons want him only mearly dead.
Wo Fat wants him most sincerly dead.
He joked about John Edwards too?
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