Posted on 09/07/2007 7:32:09 PM PDT by jdm
At a New York restaurant overlooking Central Park in April 2006, the governor of Pennsylvania sat down to dinner with about a dozen Democratic supporters. The 10-course meal in a private room at Per Se, including dishes like Nova Scotia Lobster Tail "Cuite Sous Vide," cost about $18,000, says a diner who was there. The host, Norman Hsu, was a businessman that the crowd admired but knew little about.
In the past few weeks, much more has become known about Mr. Hsu: That he had filed for bankruptcy twice, including a time in 1990 when he said he had no income, no job, and little more than a Toyota 4-Runner and a jade ring. And that he was wanted by California authorities for grand theft charges to which he had pleaded no contest in 1992, then fled before facing sentencing.
Mr. Hsu turned himself in on that matter a week ago, after news coverage of his past -- which began with a Wall Street Journal article about his unusual campaign giving -- had brought the conviction to light and led politicians to hand over some of his campaign donations to charity. Mr. Hsu posted a $2 million bond -- and then he vanished again. On Wednesday, when he was supposed to appear in court in California, he instead boarded Amtrak's eastbound California Zephyr near Oakland. Along the trip he fell, was taken to a hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., and arrested. On Friday, authorities were taking steps to send him to California.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
James Brosnahan, Norman Hsu's attorney and a partner at the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, issued the following statement late Friday:
"In the last 36 hours a great many friends of Norman Hsu have expressed concern about his mental health and physical well-being. We are very pleased and relieved that he is now being cared for at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado. The strain he has been under during the last week has been enormous and, perhaps, unbearable. We will be getting him the best medical care available. The legal matter pending in San Mateo Superior Court will be handled in its proper course."
In the summer of 1990, Mr. Hsu filed for bankruptcy protection. Then in September 1990 he was kidnapped, according to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle. The police, the article said, arrested men they said were connected to Asian gangs. Mr. Hsu told police that he had been assaulted and taken to Foster City, Calif., where police pulled over a car driven by his alleged abductors when it ran a red light.
Foster City? You can't make this stuff up!!!!
Lot of details in this WSJ piece. Be sure to read the entire thing at the link above, if you want to learn (a lot) more.
Ahhhhh, his Arkinside insurance lapsed?
What made Hsu run!! Nike!!
LOL
Where did the money come from? It obviously wasn’t Hsu’s. Follow the money.
The memory of Vince Foster.
Named after Steve, I believe.
I've seen that phrasing in more than one article now. What the heck is that supposed to mean? Are we expected to assume he is naturalized? a green card holder? what? Why don't they just come out and say what his immigration / citizenship status is? Why?
A liar, a thief and a con-man supreme.
The perfect Clintonista
He's as good as dead Jim...
Amtrak Hsus?
I don't smell the PLA or Chicoms...anyone else?
If he ran away with his wife would they be “running Hsus”?????
I am sorry, I couldn’t help myself!
Safe in jail??? Dead man walking.
Hsu fell and got hurt? Guess he’s not much of an athletic Hsu.
This Hsu character sounds like a real heel!
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