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 ...
Come on, story, let’s keep building momentum.
LOL! Classic!
This doesn’t violate CFR because it’s about Democrats, right?
Look, this whole thing is just a misunderstanding, no, no, a Republican smear, no wait, it’s just an attempt to shift attention away from Bush’s failure in Iraq, which Hillary voted for, whoops! Did I mention the candidate’s proposal for health care reform? ;’)
How about a billboard - THE DEMOCRATS WILL HELP YOU - TOMORROW!
...As to Mr. Hsu, he is undoubtedly another of those 'victims' we hear so much about from Liberals, and I understand they may be trying to get him some help...
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(...or maybe it's just that they want to 'put him away' somewhere, so he cannot damage Hillary further...???)
:’D
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