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 ...
A spokesman for Hsu
He even has a spokesman? Where does a feller go to get one of those?
Once a candidate declares, do they still have an “exploratory committee”?
I want to know who is paying the spokesman.....
To the spokesman store, of course. But they’re expensive.
Has anyone noticed that the media is portarying Hsu as a “Democratic fundraiser”? I’m sure that they would like to portray him as a Republican fundraiser but they know that won’t fly.
What the media really doesn’t want to do is portray Hsu as he really is...a Clinton fundraiser. So, someone in the DNC is going to have to ‘take the hit’ on this one because the Clintons aren’t going to.
Bad Boy Bad Boy
What Hsu gonna do?
What Hsu gonna do
When the come for you
Bad Boy Bad Boy
What charities are all these Dim politicians giving Hsu’s money to? Planned Parenthood? ACORN? National Resources Defense Council? MoveOn? Enquiring minds would like to know.
Polonium poisoning? It’s going around, you know.
Link from post # 15....:
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Locally, Hsu donated $750 to Mayor Gavin Newsom's 2004 campaign. Our calls to his office were not returned.
He gave the same amount to district attorney Kamala Harris. This year, Hsu donated $500 more for her reelection.
Harris's spokesperson says she'll give all that money to charity.
Hsu's new lawyer Jim Brosnahan released a statement this afternoon, which says in part ..."Mr. Hsu has pledged to deal forthrightly with this 15-year-old legal issue."
Hsu's attorney says in this statement, his client learned about the bench warrant from a newspaper reporter.
His attorney also says in a published report, Hsu thought he had resolved the grand theft case, as demonstrated by the fact that he's lived a very public life.
Thiz iz series.
Efin Kim Jong Il wud no awr about wut Hsu are doing!
Sing! Sing like canaly, HSU!
“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.”
:deleted comment, cont’d: “That SOB owes me money!”
Here’s something new from the AP:
>>Hsu was listed in fair condition, hospital vice president Dan Prinster said in a telephone interview. He declined to provide details of Hsu’s ailment, other than to say that Hsu “was delirious (when he arrived) and had identification.”
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iqBhmJjjyb8x9_pGPNx072hMBDQg
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Delirium is a great symptom. Could indicate all manner of things from dehydration to poisoning to infection to snakebite to diabetes...and that’s just off the top of a layman’s head. And unlike compound fractures and strokes and heart attacks that have some pretty specific clinical criteria that are readily established by eyeball or quick test, delirium can take awhile.
What was it that got ol Jim McDougle?
Is Hsu really giving away his own money or is he a bagman I wonder?
That post was a tour de force! Thanks for the chuckles.
Do not be surprised if this delirium CAUSES DEMENTIA AND A COMPLETE LOSS OF MEMORY UNTIL AFTER JANUARY OF 2009.
I swear, this man needs to be in the custody of the FBI, pronto, and into a federal witness protection program.
One sometimes longs for the old days of J. Edgar Hoover.
Maybe ...Delirium?....see post #33....
I can hardly wait for Paul Shanklin’s Johnny Cash send-up on “A Boy Named Hsu.”
I think his sickness has been diagnosed as Whitewater Flu.
It’s contracted by anyone who has information about the Clintons and their finances.
It is frequently fatal.
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