The curious case against Norman Hsu is going to continue and each layer seems to reveal something more.
Yesterday, Hsu turned himself into police on the fugitive warrant in California. He was wanted for bilking several businessmen of millions in an import scheme. He was later released on $2-million bail.
Now it turns out that the Department of Justice is looking into the donations that Hsu made to Hillary Clinton and several other powerful Democrats:
While California state prosecutors were dealing with the business-fraud case, the Justice Department was ramping up a look at Mr. Hsu's more recent political activities. People familiar with the new probe said Justice officials are investigating a pattern of donations by acquaintances of Mr. Hsu's in California. The investigation began following a Wall Street Journal story this past week about donations by these people -- mail carrier William Paw and the five other members of his family who list their Daly City address as 41 Shelbourne Ave., a small house near San Francisco airport.
Mr. Hsu has denied reimbursing any associates for their donations, which would be a felony, or other wrongdoing in his fund-raising activities. "I've asked friends and colleagues of mine to give money out of their own pockets, and sometimes they have agreed," he said in an email to the Journal this past week. A member of the Paw family also has said the family's donations were their own.
Let's take Hsu at his word and suppose he asked several people to make donations for candidates he endorses: what would be in it for them? Sure, Mr. Hsu may well give out of the goodness of his heart and truly support the Democrat party, but why would the Paw family when it clear they don't exactly make alot of money? Was it because Hsu is such a good friend and they trusted his word even though those donations would hurt them financially? That's doubtful.
This case will go on to the detriment of Hillary Clinton. She has attempted to distance herself from it but it conjures memories of allegations against the Bill Clinton campaign in 1996 and the connection the Chinese had to it, an issue that the Chinese-American community would like us all to forget. Sorry, China is arming themselves at an alarming rate, has an abhorrent record on human rights and is aiming to be the power in a region important to us, any issue regarding China and a major political candidate is important and will not be swept aside.
On another note, every politician connected to Hsu has said he or she would donate any money Hsu raised to charity except one: The esteemed Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell. Rendell is the former head of the DNC and was once the Mayor and DA in Philadelphia. He's not giving up the funds yet and he is standing by the major fundraiser:
"He is a man who has proved himself to be of good character," Rendell said yesterday, adding that he had socialized with Hsu about 15 to 20 times over the years. He said he met Hsu "through my work" as chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 2000.
Rendell received $37,866 from Hsu during 2005 and 2006, according to state campaign-finance records. Pennsylvania does not limit the size of contributions.
Which, of course brings up the question of whether or not Hsu was raising the money in a shady fashion back in 2000. Is Rendell the person who brought Hsu into the fold that allowed Hsu to meet and fund raise for other politicians? That could be a reason Rendell is speaking out for the man. These are all questions to be answered and one suspects the WSJ will be going full-bore on this story.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 2)
1. Its just plain lazy to collect campaign funds from big donors. Ask for a few dollars each from the millions of people you will serve, and you won't owe anybody anything except good government.
Steve Bonomo at 3:29PM on Sep 1st 2007
2. That's a big problem for Hillary and the Democrats, they are greedy..they can't get enough..the more , the better. Sometimes greed is comparable to grasping a handful of sand...you just can't keep it all...
rina at 4:51PM on Sep 1st 2007
3. This is just the tip of the iceberg of problems coming Hillary's way. She is going to be fully exposed before very much longer. She's gone to far in defiance of the One that runs all things and is due for her comeuppance which has begun to take its form. This will deepen until she is completely lain bare before all the world to see. You can believe there is a lot to reveal about her and it all will come out if she continues her course of defiance. Keep watching!!!
Larry at 8:00PM on Sep 1st 2007
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Just more of the same Clinton thumb their nose at the law. Bill and Hill think Americans are too stupid to catch on, and so far they have been right. Everythig from murder to rape has been poo-poo'd and ignored while the Clintons rack up the millions. The largest campaign fraud in the history of campaigns, (see Ron Paul and the $2 million Hollywood gala)
Just once lets not let a Clinton skate... lock her broad ass up for the five years the statute calls for.
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BERT CONVY at 9:35PM on Sep 1st 2007
5. This should not be surprising to anyone, Pay attention people.
gigantor at 4:35AM on Sep 2nd 2007
6. This is just a republican setup. I bet this hsu guy is really a republican and giving this tainted money to teh democrats to make them look crooked. We all know that Hill wouldn't do anything wrong. Look at Rendell, he was the chairman of the DNC, he couldn't get that position if he had crooked ties.
Kevin at 3:42PM on Sep 2nd 2007
7. This is just a republican setup. I bet this hsu guy is really a republican and giving this tainted money to teh democrats to make them look crooked. We all know that Hill wouldn't do anything wrong. Look at Rendell, he was the chairman of the DNC, he couldn't get that position if he had crooked ties.
Kevin at 8:26AM on Sep 2nd 2007
8. Any other political candidate, especially a Republican, would be thrown thrown out of the presidential race and probably thrown into jail.
Why does this wretched wench, Hillary Clinton, continually get away with breaking the law and scandal after scandal?
If this do nothing, corrupt, communist trained wacko, Clinton, becomes our president then it is too late. This woman is bent on destroying our nation the way that we know it. Is that what you want?
Dan Collura at 10:31AM on Sep 2nd 2007
9. Rina:
You talk about the Clintons being greedy. What do you call the Bush administration who refuses to give out the much needed funding that so many organizations need to help their people. I'm not even going to go into the 'Katrina and Fema mess'.
Where's the after-school programs that are being closed down due to lack of Republican Federal funding?
What about the all-around disgrace with true medical treatment and low cost prescriptions for the poor and elderly? I work part time at minimum wage and my share-of-cost for doctor's visits and meds are outrageous! I'm 63 and barely holding on. At my age, you get PUNISHED for working!...especially at minimum wage.
It is costing us an arm and a leg to keep gas in our recently purchased 2004 Ford Taurus, which we HAD to take out FULL COVERAGE insurance and we are paying very high interest on. (We could no longer afford to keep having work done on our older vehicles that would not pass smog). Sorry, Rina...I just don't remember the gas costing any where near of what we're paying today while we were under a Democratic administration.
Forget about the millions of dollars being spent on a war that we should have gotten out of long ago.
Now tell me again, Rina how 'greedy' the Clintons are? Millions are spent on running a campaign. Would you like to cut down on the donations by contributing to this fund raising yourself?
Mary M.
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Mary at 10:42AM on Sep 2nd 2007
10. Mrs. Clinton's mentor and hero is the reknown communist organizer, Professor Saul Alinsky. Alinsky believes in non-violent revolution through the re-education of your children.
It is not for no reason your kids are being dumbed down in our public schools.
It is not for no reason that Hillary Clinton wrote her book "It Takes a Village" where she says that the community is more responsible to raise your children than the parent. These things comply with the philosophy of dialectic materialism and Marxism.
Mrs. Clinton has repeated stated that she thinks our US Constitution is "outmoded" and needs to be "rewritten." Our Constitution and our Laws have made us into a great nation. Without our laws we are no better or worse than a Third World nation. Then you have to ask, why does Mrs. Clinton want to re-write our laws? Obviously to conform with her leftist socialist views.
Keep one thing in mind. Mrs. Clinton does not compromise. She has a long history of showing the rest of us that it is her way or no way.
Mrs. Clinton has a history of failure and ineptitude. She has defended cop killing Black Panthers. She has defended Puerto Rican terrorists who tried to kill Congress People on the Hill. When her husband forced her employment at the Rose Law Firm, Ms. Clinton so botched up torts cases that they had to remove her and reassign her to "Rain Maker" duties. Later, almost every person working at the once prestigious Rose Law Firm was found of wrong doing, fired, fined or convicted to jail. All except Hillary Clinton. Her records "mysteriously" disappeared. Ms. Clinton subsequently screwed up Health Care reform so badly that the DNC is still reeling from the after effects some 12 years later. Ms. Clinton was directly involved with illegally obtaining FBI files on anyone who opposed her or her husband. She illegally fired long time White House employees and replaced them with her personal friends who subsequently earned a fortune. She was involved with the mysterious death of her colleague, Vince Foster and Fosters personal things were pilfered through and taken from his White House office. Mrs. Clinton is now steeped up to her neck with illegal communist Chinese campaign funds. If this had happened to any Republican, all hell would have broken loose with investigative committees and so forth. Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, et. Al., would be red in the face, pounding the lectern demanding to know why communists are giving money to a Republican presidential candidate. Yet, Hillary Clinton just sails on by with her broom stick shoved neatly between her legs.
If Hillary Clinton is elected as our president our laws will be changed. We will undoubtedly become a socialist state. You will work more, earn less and be taxed out of your ass. You will have less personal freedoms. Is that what you want?
Dan Collura at 10:50AM on Sep 2nd 2007
11. Clinton;s Two chances to be president and they "BLEW" then both.
JL at 12:05PM on Sep 2nd 2007
12. First there was Charlie Trie, now there is Norman Hsu and both of them have ties to the Chinese Communists. The morally bankrupt commies and the Clintons make good company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Trie
Stuart at 7:42PM on Sep 2nd 2007
13. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1890618/posts?page=85
Hillary has more illegal donations she needs to return. See you at your deposition, Hillary.
dougfromupland at 1:30AM on Sep 4th 2007
14. HILLERY WILL CHANGE THINGS BACK!
What is “change?” and when Hillary speaks of “change” is she speaking of change as we the American people are? The word “change” in politics is a code word for “doing the same thing the last Administration did, but differently.” File gate was about what Ms Clinton? No different then what Cheney is doing in regards to withholding information on who he met with. Same crap, different tactic, but same crap. Is this the “change” we as Americans want? Do we want a Bush/Cheney Democrat? Is that not what Bill Clinton were nothing but a Reagan/Bush Sr.Democrat? What is a “Conservative Democrat” has the arrogance of Bill and Hillary no end, with him seeking behind closed doors answers to the question of whether or not he can be her running mate? Obama was correct when he say’s the “Clintons have mastered the art of divisive politics, but Bush and Cheney made it into an art form.” Have we forgotten the many investigations under the Clintojns first 8 years? Let me help remind you of the Glorious Old Years of the Clintons
- The only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance
- Most number of convictions and guilty pleas by friends and associates*
- Most number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation
- Most number of witnesses to flee country or refuse to testify
- Most number of witnesses to die suddenly
- First president sued for sexual harassment.
- First president accused of rape.
- First first lady to come under criminal investigation
- Largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contribution case
- First president to establish a legal defense fund.
- First president to be held in contempt of court
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions
- Greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad
- First president disbarred from the US Supreme Court and a state court
The question is, where was Hillary during all this time? If she is saying she was a part of this Administration, then she takes credit for the wickedness of her husband. She was a mere Wife of a President….what experience does that carry?
HILLARY SECRET LEGACY
Bank and mail fraud, violations of campaign finance laws, illegal foreign campaign funding, improper exports of sensitive technology, physical violence and threats of violence, solicitation of perjury, intimidation of witnesses, bribery of witnesses, attempted intimidation of prosecutors, perjury before congressional committees, lying in statements to federal investigators and regulatory officials, flight of witnesses, obstruction of justice, bribery of cabinet members, real estate fraud, tax fraud, drug trafficking, failure to investigate drug trafficking, bribery of state officials, use of state police for personal purposes, exchange of promotions or benefits for sexual favors, using state police to provide false court testimony, laundering of drug money through a state agency, false reports by medical examiners and others investigating suspicious deaths, the firing of the RTC and FBI director when these agencies were investigating Clinton and his associates, failure to conduct autopsies in suspicious deaths, providing jobs in return for silence by witnesses, drug abuse, improper acquisition and use of 900 FBI files, improper futures trading, murder, sexual abuse of employees, false testimony before a federal judge, shredding of documents, withholding and concealment of subpoenaed documents, fabricated charges against (and improper firing of) White House employees, inviting drug traffickers, foreign agents and participants in organized crime to the White House.
YES WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE BACK TO THESE GOOD OLD DAYS AND HILLARY HAS THE EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO GET US THEIR.
THIS IS THE EXACT TYPE OF EXPERIENCE WE NEED
blackmanvision at 10:05AM on Sep 4th 2007
15. This piece needs an update...the LoralHsu connection courtesy of Google Cache is fun stuff.
"Is the other Hsu about to drop?
Hillary's donor linked to China missile trader"
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57450
Phil at 7:57AM on Sep 5th 2007