RUSH: Of all places, by the way, this is in the Boston Globe today: "Disgraced fund-raiser Norman Hsu did a lot more than just pump $850,000 into Hillary Clinton's campaign bank account: He also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local, state, and federal candidates who have endorsed Clinton or whose support she courted." She had a nice little operation going here. It's just not conceivable that she's telling the truth when she said she really had no idea who Hsu was because "we can't vet all of our bundlers, we simply don't have the records." Terry McAuliffe went out there, "Yeah, we can't do that, there's too many of them. We ran Hsu through the computer, nothing showed up." Hardy-har-har -- not believable! "Hsu has been a major fund-raiser for Democrats since 2003, Hsu became one of Clinton's biggest bundlers -- gathering scores of individual checks and sending them to her campaign. But since revelations last month that Hsu was a fugitive in a 15-year-old California fraud case, Clinton has said she would return the $850,000 she has taken from him and his associates."
Yeah, we never get proof that this happens. All we hear is that they say they're going to do it. "In at least some cases, Clinton or her aides directly channeled contributions from Hsu and his network to other politicians supportive of her presidential campaign, according to interviews and campaign finance records. There is nothing illegal about one politician steering wealthy contributors to another, but the New York senator's close ties to Hsu have become an embarrassment for her and her campaign," because she's denying that there have been any close ties. "In February, when former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack ended his own White House bid, he was about $450,000 in the red. A month after dropping out, Vilsack endorsed Clinton, and Clinton agreed to help him retire his debts. (Both insisted there was no quid pro quo.)" Why would anybody think that? No, of course not!
"Over the next few months, some of Clinton's biggest fund-raisers gave Vilsack checks, including Hsu, who kicked in the maximum allowable contribution, $2,300. On May 3 after attending an event organized by Clinton's campaign, Newsweek reported this month. An associate of Hsu's, Paul Su, chipped in $1,000 on the same day. In other cases, Clinton helped direct Hsu's money to influential politicians who have yet to endorse her but hail from key presidential primary states. Clinton raised at least $6,000 from Hsu and his network last year for Governor John Lynch of New Hampshire, according to Lynch aides. Lynch has no plans to endorse anyone before the state's crucial January primary, aides said. Clinton said in a National Public Radio interview last week that Hsu's past was 'a rude awakening to all of us - I mean, not only in my campaign, but the dozens of campaigns going back to, I guess, 2003 and '04 who, you know, took contributions. None of us caught this and we all ran searches.'" Oh, yeah: "We really tried to find out who this guy was, we just had no idea!"
I mean, two outstanding federal warrants and they couldn't find out who he was. I guess you guys all had a rude awakening with Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana), too, when the 90 grand in cold cash was found in his freezer. So it stinks to high heaven and I just love this. The ethics the government crowd has out there on the left... They don't want voter ID; they don't want George Soros investigated or exposed for what he's doing, and, of course, they're running for the tall grass now from Norman Hsu. This is a lot of smoke, and with this much smoke there has to be some fire.