Donor Hsu projected wealth, likability

LATimes ^ | September 16, 2007 | Claudia Blume and Mike Saccone and Janet Lundblad

[CutePuppy]

Associates describe the disgraced Democratic fundraiser as charming and self-effacing, but deceptive.

Last year, to celebrate New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's reelection victory, Norman Hsu capped an amazingly successful year as a Democratic fundraiser by treating members of her campaign staff to several days at the glitzy Mandalay Bay hotel and casino in Las Vegas, complete with free show tickets and dinners at posh restaurants.

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For all who did business with Hsu, the pattern is remarkably consistent: an initial attraction to a likable individual who offered the moon, followed by disillusionment and feelings of betrayal -- sometimes tinged with embarrassment at having been gullible.

Many questions remain about Hsu's often murky career. How could he rise to such heights, given that he had been a fugitive on a felony grand-theft charge since 1992? Why did no one ever dig into the background of a benefactor who seemed to emerge from nowhere? Exactly where did the hundreds of thousands of dollars that he showered on politicians come from?

And how was Hsu able to continue organizing multimillion-dollar financial schemes despite a trail of business failures and disappointed, often accusatory, investors? After all, he had no obvious source of income and had gone bankrupt twice.

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Even as he was ingratiating himself, Hsu used his ready access to the world of celebrity politics to enhance his credibility with potential business investors. And some investors said he or his associates pressured them to make campaign contributions, further cementing Hsu's standing in the political world.

Several investors admitted they were agog when Hsu took them to fundraising parties with the likes of Barbra Streisand and Steven Spielberg.

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[ClaireSolt]

That is good to hear, becaue that FEC is so useless that they wouldn’t get around to looking into this for many years.

[nicmarlo]

Illegals not only register to vote with fake ID's, they get on the tax-paid gravy train for all kinds of benefits. That's how they're able to send $50 billion back to their moth-eaten countries every year.

Apparently, that's exactly what the globalists want....they're obviously enabling them to do so, with every new law they've been passing.....

[Roccus]

Perhaps my post was too obtuse. The Able Danger Program consisted in part of a computer program that was just the data mining program you asked about. This program was supposed to have been destroyed and was reported as such in the Weldon hearings. I believe, and Calpernia agrees in post #46, that someone, somewhere still has that program.

[Liz]

Laundering campaign donations (via data theft) is a very similar concept to how voter fraud has been used. “Legacy” systems have been used to pump up elections. Hijacked name ID's would work better for donations and votes since the names would be legit..........

Bingo............voter fraud using Legacy systems.

Gotta add that to the list, Cal.

Man the Hsu scam is getting bigger by the second.

[Liz]

There are lots of ways to get lists.........the phone book, or the city directory, or that list seller in Omaha from India that is paying Bill Clinton and Nancy Pelosi’s son.

Have not seen them.........but I would gather Ameritrade and Military lists hacked from the net, or on discs, have other data attached (SS#, family names, income, investment info, etc) that comes in handy..........if you happen to be a crook.

[wizr]

“Donor Hsu projected wealth, likability”

DON’T SEND HIM TO JAIL, SEND HIM TO CONGRESS. He’ll fit right in. And he just loves throwing around other people’s money.

[Rudder]

The fix was in on Hsu back in the 1990's. He was convicted in 1992 and then skipped the country, failing to show up at his sentencing hearing. But why would any person who left the country under such circumstances feel it was safe to return less than one decade later? Hsu was correct, however. It was safe to return, he got away with it scott-free all the while rising to prominence (board of directors at a NYC university, major donor status for the dems and a conspicuous globe-trotting, party-giver for Hillary's team. He did this all the while, from the '90's to just last month (about 20 years), being a fugitive. He behaved as if he had been given immunity and his behavior was unchallenged by everyone, including law enforcement. I contend that he was given "immunity" by someone very powerful. Who might that be?

[Liz]

Hawalas——they probably use those, too-—slimey way to sneak money out of the country out of sight of the IRS and SEC. AND as a way to payoff terrorists.

[Liz]

Hsu Cast Wide Net For Clinton Donors List Included Strangers, His Own Investors

Washington Post | September 16, 2007 | John Solomon and Matthew Mosk

FR Posted on 09/15/2007 10:19:41 PM PDT by neverdem

To raise $850,000 for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign in just eight months, Norman Hsu tapped an eclectic group of donors that included wealthy investors in his apparel ventures, hotel shopkeepers, a 96-year-old in a Florida retirement home and an auto-body worker who mistakenly thought he would get a tax break for his political generosity.

The Clinton campaign has not yet released any information about the 260 donors whose contributions it is now refunding because they were credited to the prodigious fundraising of the former fugitive, but a detailed analysis of donors Hsu brought to Clinton shows that he tapped many Asian American donors in California and New York, including complete strangers as well as his relatives. He also raised political funds from people who had already invested large sums in his private business ventures.

Some donors among the nearly 100 identified this week said they never met Hsu and did not know that their donations had been credited to his fundraising. Others had trouble explaining why they gave the funds to Clinton or could not recall the circumstances in which they met Hsu. “He called me and asked me if I’d give $1,000. . . . I don’t know how you’d say we struck up a relationship. I just knew him,” said Henry Rosenberg, a New York City lawyer.

Asked if he wanted Clinton, New York’s junior senator, to be the next president, Rosenberg said: “I don’t know. He just asked me to do it, and I did.”

Nay Oo, another Clinton donor for whom Hsu claimed credit, was listed in the candidate’s fundraising reports with an address in Daly City, Calif. The home’s owner, Ellen Yee, said Oo used to rent a room in the house but hadn’t lived there for years. A man who...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/15/AR2007091501386_pf.html

[stephenjohnbanker]

“People like Rosenman and others mixed up with Hsu (who stash money offshore to evade the SEC and the IRS), then make “profitable investments” that are then laundered into Clinton’s campaign.”

Sounds logical to me.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Illegals not only register to vote with fake ID’s, they get on the tax-paid gravy train for all kinds of benefits. That’s how they’re able to send $50 billion back to their moth-eaten countries every year”

It is amazing how many folks who can’t speak english are driving 50,000 SUV’s.

[Jacquerie]

And after not remembering anything at the grand jury she wrote an autobiography. She also forgot where those darn Rose billing records were and couldn't’t remember who hired Craig Livingstone, the guy who suddenly came upon almost a thousand raw FBI files on Republicans.

[nicmarlo]

Others had trouble explaining why they gave the funds to Clinton or could not recall the circumstances in which they met Hsu. “He called me and asked me if I’d give $1,000. . . . I don’t know how you’d say we struck up a relationship. I just knew him,

Yeah, sure....I just ALWAYS donate money to people I don't know....for a cause or person I didn't know about.

[Calpernia]

>>>a detailed analysis of donors Hsu brought to Clinton shows that he tapped many Asian American donors in California and New York, including complete strangers as well as his relatives

The snakeheads! Smuggle in their own donors!

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Human Trafficking bump!

[Liz]

It is amazing how many folks who can’t speak english--- AND who pick lettuce and flip hamburgers for a living-----are driving 50,000 SUV’s........ AND have condos and hefty bank accounts in their home countries.

[Calpernia]

>>>Congressman Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) and Chris Smith (R-N.J.) sent a scalding letter to both the Justice Department and the State Department earlier this month; in it they ask for information that could prove Clinton administration bungling has led to refugees being sent back to face gulag-style re-education camps and slave-labor political prisons.<<<<

'gulag-style re-education camps' or just shut up (<-disturbing, don't click if you will be upset)

[Liz]

I just ALWAYS donate money to people I don't know....for a cause or person I didn't know about.

LOL----watta bunch of "dummies," Hsu's pals are.

Let's just say------they are adept at playing dumb b/c it keeps them out of jail.

[stephenjohnbanker]

The looting continues.

[nicmarlo]

they are adept at playing dumb b/c it keeps them out of jail.

Yeah...they get Shillery's "get out of jail" but not-so-free-card.....there's often that "little" problem down the road with catching the "Clinton Flu"....that flu has a high morbidity rate.

[Liz]

Clinton Flu?

Is that a derivative of the Asian Flu?

ROTFLOL.