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SF: UPDATE: HSU IN HOSPITAL, LAWYER SAYS HE WAS UNDER ENORMOUS STRAIN (Scared of Hillary?)
CBS5.com ^ | 9/7/07

Posted on 09/07/2007 7:54:41 PM PDT by LdSentinal

A lawyer for fugitive Democratic Party fundraiser Norman Hsu said today that Hsu has been under "enormous and perhaps unbearable" strain in the past week and that Hsu's attorneys are relieved he is being cared for in a Colorado hospital.

James Brosnahan, a San Francisco lawyer, said the criminal case pending against Hsu in San Mateo County Superior Court "will be handled in its proper course."

Brosnahan said, "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."

Hsu, 56, was arrested by the FBI at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., at 7 p.m. Thursday on a federal charge of unlawful interstate flight to avoid prosecution.

Hospital spokeswoman Kim Williams said Hsu is in "fair condition" but said she could not disclose the nature of his illness or say when he will be released.

Hsu had been taken to the hospital from an Amtrak train, according to Grand Junction police spokeswoman Linda Bowman.

Federal prosecutors in San Francisco filed the flight charge Thursday at the request of the California Attorney General's Office after Hsu failed to appear in San Mateo County Superior Court on Wednesday for proceedings on a 15-year-old grand theft conviction in an investment fraud case.

FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler said today that proceedings to transfer Hsu to California will begin after he leaves the hospital and said he expected Hsu to remain at the hospital at least through today.

Schadler said he expects the federal charge to be dropped after Hsu is returned to San Mateo County jurisdiction.

In the meantime, Hsu is in federal custody at the hospital and is being watched by Mesa County sheriff's deputies, Schadler said.

Deputy California Attorney General Ralph Sivilla said: "We appreciate the excellent work by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office in obtaining an arrest warrant and apprehending Mr. Hsu as quickly as possible."

Lawyers from the state Attorney General's Office are acting as prosecutors in the San Mateo County case.

When Hsu failed to show up in court Wednesday morning, Sivilla said Brosnahan told him Hsu had been scheduled to arrive at Oakland International Airport 5:30 a.m. Wednesday on a charter flight from New York.

Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari said he could not reveal the names of train passengers but said a passenger with "a medical issue" was taken off a train at Grand Junction midday Thursday after Amtrak crewmembers summoned emergency services.

Magliari said the train runs daily from Emeryville to Chicago via Denver. It left Emeryville at 7:10 a.m. Wednesday and was due in Grand Junction at 11:43 a.m. Thursday, but arrived a few minutes early, he said.

Grand Junction Fire Department spokesman Mike Page said emergency responders from the department were summoned Thursday to aid a patient who had fallen on the train, according to a dispatch report.

The patient was able to walk off the train and arrived at the hospital at 12:02 p.m., Page said.

Schadler declined to give details on how the FBI found Hsu at the hospital.

The FBI spokesman said the procedure for transferring Hsu will be that he will first appear before a federal magistrate in Colorado, where he will have the choice of either contesting or not contesting the move.

After a federal magistrate in Colorado orders the transfer, Hsu will be brought before a federal magistrate in Northern California, probably in San Francisco, and then will be moved to San Mateo County custody, Schadler said. At that point, under normal procedures, the federal charge would be dropped, the FBI agent said.

Natalya LaBauve, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Francisco, said she had no information about when the federal complaint filed against Hsu will be unsealed or when Hsu is expected to appear in federal court in San Francisco.

In the San Mateo County case, Hsu was accused in 1991 of stealing $1 million from about 20 investors to buy and resell latex gloves that did not exist, according to the attorney general's office. He pleaded no contest in 1992 to one count of grand theft and under the plea agreement was to be sentenced to three years in state prison and payment of restitution to the victims.

When Hsu failed to show up for sentencing in 1992, a judge issued a warrant for his arrest and set bail at $2 million.

Hsu eluded authorities for 15 years but after recent news stories about his role as a political campaign fundraiser and contributor linked him to the grand theft case, he surrendered before San Mateo County Superior Court Judge James Ellis on Aug. 31 and posted $2 million bail.

When he failed to show up for his next hearing Wednesday, his bail was revoked and a new arrest warrant was issued.

According to Federal Election Commission records, a Norman Hsu -- with apparel-related business names and addresses listed in New York and California -- contributed $260,000 to political parties, most since 2004.

Recipients included the Democratic Party and Democratic U.S. senators Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Barack Obama, D-Ill., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., John Kerry, D-Mass., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: goon; hillary; hsu
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To: stboz

‘Rats.


21 posted on 09/07/2007 8:06:51 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: imahawk
I will bet he dies shortly.It is the clintoons after all and nobody crosses those people.

Polonium 210?

Remember Litvinenko?

22 posted on 09/07/2007 8:09:18 PM PDT by jdm
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To: LdSentinal; doug from upland; All

OH DOUGGGGG


23 posted on 09/07/2007 8:10:13 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: stboz; Millee; carlr; Maximus of Texas; EX52D; StephenTX; wallcrawlr; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; ..
Re: How does one say “Arkancide” in Chinese?

Being fluent in over six million forms of communication ... I believe the proper phrase would be "He no have a chinaman's chance!"

I hate to say it... but C3P0 hit the nail right on the head!

24 posted on 09/07/2007 8:10:13 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: hole_n_one; monkapotamus; All

OMG Hillary send California Black Mambo snake LOL!


25 posted on 09/07/2007 8:11:24 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: LdSentinal
If Hsu visits this website, he will have a nervous breakdown.

Arkancide

26 posted on 09/07/2007 8:12:24 PM PDT by vox humana
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To: SmithL

Who was the guy that went to prison on behalf the Clintons “They can indict my dog...!” and he was denied his heart medication...? And a helicopter landed at the prison, some important people got off, and then a couple later the guy was dead in prison? Was that McDougal..?


27 posted on 09/07/2007 8:13:00 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: hole_n_one
Shouldn't that be... ?
28 posted on 09/07/2007 8:15:51 PM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: jdm
“Polonium 210?”

Too complicated. He will die like a large percentage of the other Arkancides.

Self inflicted shotgun shot to the back of the head.

Defies the laws of logic and physics, but the Clinton's are seemingly above all laws.

29 posted on 09/07/2007 8:17:15 PM PDT by JSteff (Reality= understanding you are not nearly important enough for the government to tap your phone.)
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To: LdSentinal

Sandy Berger and James Carville could pass off as very ugly female nurses or orderlies...


30 posted on 09/07/2007 8:17:38 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: LdSentinal

He was invited to “lunch” with Hillary.


31 posted on 09/07/2007 8:19:30 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
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To: LdSentinal
"The strain he has been under during the last week has been enormous, and perhaps, unbearable. ...

Bull.

32 posted on 09/07/2007 8:20:39 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: stboz

On the carry out menu you can get order:

#1. Arkancide with white rice.
#2. Sweet and Sour Arkancide.
#3. Arkancide with brown rice.

I wouldn’t order any, hate the Chinese at the moment.


33 posted on 09/07/2007 8:22:28 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (Part of the RIGHT-Wing Machine.)
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To: SevenofNine
"OMG Hillary send California Black Mambo snake LOL!"


34 posted on 09/07/2007 8:23:04 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: gaijin
Was that McDougal..?

Yep... late and great. James was the first one I thought of when I saw that Hsu had been picked up. Don't take the meds, Norman.

Hsu is in some deep hsit no matter what he does, because he simply knows too much.

Mr. niteowl77

35 posted on 09/07/2007 8:24:12 PM PDT by niteowl77
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To: monkapotamus

MONK honey check out at 12am est on IFC they going show tonight KILL Bill Vol 1 get some ideas out of that LOL!

Then Lucy Liu characater got be Hsu guy or somebody else we all know Bill is Bill Clinton


36 posted on 09/07/2007 8:24:18 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: LdSentinal

old mcdougal had a alarm in his jail cell,

ei ei o.


37 posted on 09/07/2007 8:26:48 PM PDT by ken21
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To: SevenofNine

Cool!


38 posted on 09/07/2007 8:26:51 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: rogernz

When I see his face, to me, he resembles an Asian Bill Maher.


39 posted on 09/07/2007 8:26:51 PM PDT by CaliGirl-R (America is a "safe haven" for terrorists thanks to Political Correctness!)
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To: LdSentinal
"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."

Hsu must have an imaginary health plan provided by that imaginary company that he allegedly owns.

40 posted on 09/07/2007 8:28:46 PM PDT by RoadKingSE
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