Posted on 09/07/2007 9:04:32 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Bail-jumping Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu was busted in Colorado last night after two days on the lam from a California court hearing, authorities said.
FBI agents took Hsu into custody at St.Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, according to FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler.
"San Francisco FBI located him," Schadler said, and Colorado G-men and local cops made the collar.
St. Mary's spokesman Pete Smarr told the Daily News, "Norman Hsu was traveling on an Amtrak train when he became ill. Amtrak personnel called an ambulance when the train stopped in Grand Junction and had him transferred to St. Mary's Hospital. He is currently in the hospital under federal custody. He is in fair condition."
A spokesman for Hsu seemed suprised by news of the arrest last night. "I haven't been in contact with him for a couple of days," said spokesman Jason Booth. "I'm happy he's been found."
Hsu had been scheduled to appear in a San Francisco court Wednesday to turn over his passport and ask a judge to halve the $2 million bail he posted last week. That's when he had finally turned himself in after spending 15 years ducking sentencing on a felony theft conviction. But Hsu failed to show up at the bail reduction hearing and a judge issued an arrest warrant for him.
California attorney general spokesman Gareth Lacy said Hsu's lawyers had told prosecutors Hsu arrived by charter jet at the Oakland airport about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday local time and then vanished.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Anybody speak Chinese?
I just went through the San Mateo County court records and found a couple new associated names (”W S Trading and Investment”, Kenneth Au, and a couple other things I’m following up on. I have not seen those things in the News (but I could have missed them).
Apparently someone else went down this same path and more, as they reported many more names than were in the summary records... but the webpage is in Chinese so I don’t know the context of those names.
Can anybody help? The link is to the Sing Tao Daily (in Taiwan?)
http://www.singtao.ca/singtao_west/www/2007-09-01/1188643105d469111.html
Ooo, great catch!
Some great choices on that Chinese menu. I’ll take one from column A, two from column B...
Why is it that all these dems get to “decide” if they want to donate this money to a charity of their choice? Can’t the money that he directly contributed be siezed and sent back to the people that he defrauded?
GREAT STUFF! Great thread!
Thanks for the ping, Ernest!!!
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1991年被控商業盜竊罪 受害人多為華裔 徐諾曼加州投案自首 本報記者朱瑞良三藩市報道 令到這名近年在紐約過著豪華生活，並是民主黨政客籌款關鍵人物的Norman Hsu（音譯：徐諾曼），要以通緝犯身分到法庭自首，並可能面對加控有關罪名，主要是源於他在1991年被控的商業盜竊罪，而案中受害人絕大部分是華裔。 根據法庭文件顯示，有關活動始於1980年代，徐氏在一次公開晚餐聚會中認識華裔事主Auggie Wu（音譯：胡安哲），徐在晚餐完結後向胡提及自己是洛杉磯一名成衣商人，由於政府嚴荷的管制條例而令他的生意結束，徐氏向對方塑造出自己是成衣界出名及有豐富資歷。 後來徐向胡建議給他3萬元讓他投資，30日便可得6厘利息，胡跟他指示去做，在30日後，徐氏向胡開出支票，本利歸還，但卻建議胡再投資；胡氏將支票兌現後再投資2萬元，同樣得到本金及6厘利息。 之後徐向胡建議，入資一間名為「Unigoal」的公司，這公司主要是找尋投資者，用投資者的資金去購買膠手套，然後將膠手套售予servicemaster，並自servicemaster收取款項。 徐當時誘使胡游說朋友、僱員及其他人投資，並聲稱利潤可達6%，其中4%至5%會給予投資者，而餘下的1%至2%則由徐胡兩人攤分。 投資者將款項交到Unigoal公司，但後來卻轉到徐氏擁有的「W S貿易投資公司」 （W S Trading & Investment），除部分投資者有利潤外，很多都蒙受捐失，受害者絕大多數都是華裔，其中Kenneth Au（音譯：歐肯尼）共投資38000元，但只收回15720元，損失22280元；Mr. Chau（音譯：周先生）1989年4月至1990年3月投資20萬元，只收回14萬；Mr. Fan（音譯：范先生）損失24萬元。 部分受害者1990年2月遁民事訴訟控告徐氏，要求賠償，亦有受害人報警求助。州總檢察長辦公室在1991年8月，控告徐氏18項商業盜竊罪。徐氏被捕後，在9月進行初級偵訊，除了其中兩項控罪法庭認為沒有足夠證據外，其餘16項都表面證供成立，徐氏需要答辯，當時徐氏曾一度要還押縣警看管，其後才准以1萬元保釋外出，而當時徐氏向法庭填報的住址只是聖馬刁縣第2街一個郵箱。 案中16名受害人分別是：Chi Kou Fan（音譯：范志竘）、Alvin Chau（音譯：周艾雲）、Alice Huynh（音譯：黃艾利斯）、Kwan Lai Mock（音譯：莫關勵）、Jean Claude Wong（音譯：黃珍）、Jimmy Hom（音譯：洪占美）、Agnes Wu（音譯：胡安斯）、Augustine Wu（音譯：胡奧古斯汀）、Tony Bau Huynh（音譯：黃東尼）、Eva Hom（音譯：洪伊娃）、Ting Fan Ko（音譯：高丁凡）、Anh Thai Pho、Kenneth Au（音譯：歐肯尼）、Stanley Low（音譯：羅史丹利）、Huston Lee（音譯：李休斯頓）及Oliver Wong（音譯：黃奧利弗）。 有關審訊經歷約十多次提堂，最初徐氏否認全部控罪，其後在1992年2月6日改為承認第1項控罪，並同意服刑3年，法庭遂將案押後至4月宣判刑期。 後來徐氏傳真一封信件予代表律師，表示有急事不能應訊，法庭於是再將案件押後，但徐氏未再現身，法庭於1992年6月發通緝令，將保釋金額提高到200萬元。 |
Maybe those last names are the ones he suckered and took their money....
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In early 1989, Hsu persuaded Oakland businessman Augustine Wu to recruit investors, including family and friends, to fund a business to supply and ship latex gloves, the records show. But the venture turned out to be a Ponzi scheme, in which initial investors were repaid by new recruits until the scheme collapsed. No gloves were ever bought or sold, according to prosecutors, and the operation imploded in April 1990, leading in 1991 to the grand theft case Hsu still faces.
Within 10 months of encouraging a girlfriend to invest more than $90,000 in his ventures in 1990, Hsu listed his net income as $600 a month in divorce proceedings that his wife initiated, records show. The girlfriend said she lost her total investment.
In February 1990, another man, Wei Kuang Wan, sued Hsu, alleging Hsu had forged legal documents allowing him to post Wan's San Carlos home as collateral for a loan Hsu obtained without Wan's knowledge, according to the records. Hsu countered that the claim was baseless, and Wan dropped the lawsuit in June 1990.
Within two months, Hsu was kidnapped in San Francisco after he went to a business meeting and was taken against his will to Foster City, a police report shows.
Foster City police stopped a vehicle at 3:40 a.m. on Aug, 28, 1990, for running a red light. Inside they found a Chinatown gang leader and a frightened Hsu, who told police he had been abducted. Two other men in a car nearby were also detained, police said.
All three of Hsu's apparent abductors were arrested for kidnapping, false imprisonment and battery, although final disposition of the case was not immediately available. Hsu, who lived in Foster City at the time, told police the kidnapping was an effort to collect a debt from him, according to Foster City police Capt. Matt Martell.
Martell said Hsu told police that the gang leader, Kwok Chung Chow, said he was there to "take care of business for Auggie Wu," the Oakland businessman Hsu would later be charged with defrauding.
Hey Dave, check out the pronunciation. hsu pronounced shoo. Some of the jokes/cartoons just ain't right.
Taiwan Group Buys $14.5 Million in California Goods
John Eckhouse, Chronicle Staff Writer. San Francisco Chronicle Oct 18, 1988. pg. C.4
A "Buy American" delegation from the Republic of China on Taiwan signed contracts yesterday to purchase about $14.5 million worth of goods from California companies.
The group also offered to provide below-market financing for U.S. exporters who want to sell to Taiwan.
It's all part of Taiwan's latest effort to reduce trade friction with the United States, its biggest trading partner. Because Taiwan generally runs a large U.S. trade surplus - $16 billion last year - it sends regular buying missions to the United States. San Francisco was the last stop for the current delegation, the 14th since 1978. The government and business executives say they have purchased $520 million worth of U.S. industrial and agricultural products during their 13-city, three-week trip.
But the head of the mission acknowledged it is mostly a public relations effort. Virtually all of the purchases were arranged well before the group left Taiwan.
"That is true, but according to our Chinese philosophy of doing business, we love personal contacts rather than telex," said Augustine Wu, deputy director general of Taiwan's Board of Foreign Trade.
ROTFLOLPIMP!
That was GREAT!
I’m still laughing...;o)
Ping.
Sure you women laugh at the Hilliarily Nut Cracker on youtube.
This event may be really hard for the Clintoon whitewash team to cover up with these different agencies on the case.
Thanks for the data.
Schadler said he expects the federal charge to be dropped after Hsu is returned to San Mateo County jurisdiction.....
Norm will wind up like Vince Foster
Hsu’s illegal donations were spread around the USA and greasy/slick/fast Eddy filled up some big bags with Hsu’s cash.
Actually, I think her campaign is going to use that one.
Hey, if they don’t, Obama’s will...
I stand corrected. Forgot the greasy part of his nature.
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