Missing their pal...
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.
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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 ...
LLS
Nothing to see here. Move along!!
The culture of corruption doesn’t exist!/s
paging DFU
Nothing to see here, move along.
Do not look behind the curtain, I am the great Oz.
“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.
Norman Hsu ... the gift that keeps on giving.
BTTT
bttt
Clinton has NOT RETUrned the money!!!!!! IDIOT REPORTING!! They are taking her word that she returned it....WHERE”S THE PROOF!!
Are those trips LEGAL???
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?
The recipients should be declaring the trips on their tax returns as gifts.
And they can also use these illegal contributions to blackmail Hillary and the other Dems.
Wonder if they DID put these trips on their tax forms???? hmmmmmmmm....DOUBT IT....hey IRS!!!
COMMUNIST CHINA doesn’t NEED any LEGISLATION....they need OUR SECRETS which the Clintons are very willing to give them.
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.
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