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.
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Good question!
Maybe this committee is intended to "explore" legal options to hide the truth and cover up and deny anything and everything.
HSU needs a real attorney now. Jim Brosnahan is nothing but a DNC shill.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-na-hsu30aug30,1,28657.story
Fugitive donor bows out of fundraising
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Hsu was to be among the hosts of a Sept. 30 fundraiser in Woodside, Calif. Other hosts for the event include venture capitalist Charles Beeler, and former high-tech company executive Don Listwin, who founded the Canary Foundation to combat cancer. Donors are expected to give $2,300 each.
The event will still go on, albeit without Hsu.
At least the guy was smart enough to take a train! Those planes are dangerous--they always crash!
LOL! Don't ya love the chutspah of these attorneys! Amazing.
Another silly question: He posted a 2 million dollar bond the first time. Does he lose this and who put up the bond?
I havent been in contact with him for a couple of days, said spokesman Jason Booth. Im happy hes been found.
Translation “I thought that he was dead”
From this link:
Fugitive fundraiser Hsu captured in Colorado
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Hsu, listed as a "Hillraiser" committed to bringing in $100,000 or more to the presidential campaign of New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, has given an estimated $600,000 of his own money to candidates ranging from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and Assemblywoman Fiona Ma to presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. Hsu has helped raise hundreds of thousands more through high-profile events in New York and California
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And we have this:
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Note the date on the fundraiser invitation, September 30, 2007.
Tickets are going fast, so RSVP soon!
***************************Thanks to vox_freedom....see original at post # 7......
Oh, good. I was so worried that Hilliary would have to cancel the event, merely because this wanted felon was no longer an honored sponsor. //sarc off
Thanks.
Rats have zero sense of humor and toons like the ones I borrowed have to be cutting to the bone and rubbing salt in the open wounds.
can anyone verify what charity, if any other than the Slimy Eddie Foundation, Fast Eddie actually donated the $40,000 too.And Eddie still counts Hsu as a good friend! It’s Slimy Eddie as far as I am concerned anymore.
Check with your friends in California.,...would be great to capture some of these....
Well, given the way that Democrat judges and prosecutors have treated this guy, and the power involved, he could be pardoned, completely recovered from his delirium, and at the fund raiser dressed in a tux with his diapers on!
Nothing would surprise me about this case.
OTOH, he could show up dead in the next 15 minutes.
Like all of us here on FR, I hope he sings like a canary on steroids!
Because California is controlled by democtatic judges and politicians.
The RAT judges gave him one more chance to het away and he flubbed it.
This IS NOT GOOD NEWS FOR HILDABEAST.
I hope he lives and will talk about the Clinton’s. Imagine if he talks about how he was poisoned. Put him in protective custody in exchange for all his fund raising information.
Ernest—you have always had a great set of eyes for following these scandals.
Will you keep your eyes open for this guy (Ta-Lin Hsu) for me?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1889355/posts?page=109#109
Other than co-hosting a fundraiser, I can only find very weak ties between he and Norman, but he’s a rich Dem donor with lots of China ties.
“Is Hsu really giving away his own money or is he a bagman I wonder?”
Who really put up the 2 million in bail money.
If it was Hsu’s he would not have fled. So who’s money is it? Where did it come from.
My friends are on a different mailing list ;-)
(Yet why I get Arnie's $10,000 a plate invitations I have NO idea! lol)
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