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HILL BILL FOOTED BY HSU (Clinton staffers got Vegas trip funded by fugitive)
NY Post ^ | 9/17/07 | LEONARD GREENE

Posted on 09/17/2007 3:48:23 AM PDT by Libloather

HILL BILL FOOTED BY HSU
VEGAS VICTORY BASH
By LEONARD GREENE

September 17, 2007 -- Members of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign staff got a nice payoff last year for their work to get her re-elected - a trip to Las Vegas funded by her fugitive former fund-raiser.

Among the Sin City guests of disgraced former fund-raiser Norman Hsu was Patti Solis Doyle, one of Clinton's most trusted advisers who now runs the senator's presidential campaign.

According to The Los Angeles Times, Hsu - who raised more than $850,000 for Clinton before being jailed last month on charges related to an investment scheme - treated the senator's campaign staff to several days at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, complete with free show tickets and dinners at posh restaurants.

Doyle was accompanied by two junior staffers and a New York-based fund-raiser, the report said.

In April 2006, Hsu provided a hotel stay in Las Vegas for two other campaign workers.

Doyle also received a coveted and pricey designer handbag from the disgraced moneyman, the newspaper said. But she returned it.

The red-faced Clinton camp insists there was nothing illegal about the trip, according to the article, and stressed that Hsu never received any legislative favors in return for his generosity.

Clinton last week returned the $850,000 Hsu raised, but not before taking a political beating on the fund-raising fiasco.

**SNIP**

Gov. Spitzer and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said they would divest their campaigns of the donations they received.

Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau has launched an investigation of Hsu, focusing on $40 million in "investment" cash that was given to him by Joel Rosenman - one of the four founders of the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; democrats; funnymoney; hillary; hsu; vegas
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Missing their pal...
1 posted on 09/17/2007 3:48:25 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
"Missing their pal..."


2 posted on 09/17/2007 3:50:42 AM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: Libloather
The “CULTURE OF CORRUPTION” missing the CULTURE CORRUPTER!

LLS

3 posted on 09/17/2007 4:09:02 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Nothing to see here. Move along!!

The culture of corruption doesn’t exist!/s


4 posted on 09/17/2007 4:13:41 AM PDT by jch10
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To: doug from upland

paging DFU


5 posted on 09/17/2007 4:15:55 AM PDT by mo
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To: Libloather

Nothing to see here, move along.
Do not look behind the curtain, I am the great Oz.


6 posted on 09/17/2007 4:23:42 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: jch10

“The red-faced Clinton camp insists there was nothing illegal about the trip, according to the article, and stressed that Hsu never received any legislative favors in return for his generosity.”

received - past tense

Dear Norman,
Tomorrow, tomorrow, I’ll love you, tomorrow -
Yours truly, Hillary

They think we’re really, really stupid.


7 posted on 09/17/2007 4:24:25 AM PDT by Bluebird Singing
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To: Libloather
"Pass the Hsu."


8 posted on 09/17/2007 4:29:40 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Libloather

Norman Hsu ... the gift that keeps on giving.


9 posted on 09/17/2007 4:36:47 AM PDT by BillyBonebrake
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To: Libloather
Can you just imagine how easy it will be for foreign interests and national lobbyist to have their way with Hillary. All it will take is some greenbacks and cheesy schmoozing. With her better half all it took was a minute of 'secular prayer' in the hallway near the oral office.
10 posted on 09/17/2007 6:14:00 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: justa-hairyape

BTTT


11 posted on 09/17/2007 6:18:31 AM PDT by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: monkapotamus

bttt


12 posted on 09/17/2007 6:19:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: Libloather

Clinton has NOT RETUrned the money!!!!!! IDIOT REPORTING!! They are taking her word that she returned it....WHERE”S THE PROOF!!


13 posted on 09/17/2007 6:20:33 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her PHONINESS is REAL!!!)
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To: Libloather

Are those trips LEGAL???


14 posted on 09/17/2007 6:21:27 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her PHONINESS is REAL!!!)
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The red-faced Clinton camp insists there was nothing illegal about the trip, according to the article, and stressed that Hsu never received any legislative favors in return for his generosity.

That's where we need to be going in terms of investigating Hsu. What was he getting in return for the millions he raised for the Dems?

15 posted on 09/17/2007 6:24:10 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Suzy Quzy

The recipients should be declaring the trips on their tax returns as gifts.


16 posted on 09/17/2007 6:25:20 AM PDT by kabar
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To: justa-hairyape

And they can also use these illegal contributions to blackmail Hillary and the other Dems.


17 posted on 09/17/2007 6:26:44 AM PDT by kabar
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Wonder if they DID put these trips on their tax forms???? hmmmmmmmm....DOUBT IT....hey IRS!!!


18 posted on 09/17/2007 6:26:53 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her PHONINESS is REAL!!!)
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To: kabar

COMMUNIST CHINA doesn’t NEED any LEGISLATION....they need OUR SECRETS which the Clintons are very willing to give them.


19 posted on 09/17/2007 6:27:59 AM PDT by Suzy Quzy (Hillary '08...Her PHONINESS is REAL!!!)
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To: Suzy Quzy

Exactly. You don’t need legislation to get the Commerce Department to OK the sale of technology to the Chicoms. Like everything else, you need to parse what the Clintons say.


20 posted on 09/17/2007 6:30:35 AM PDT by kabar
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