Indictment of Norman Hsu- Text

Background on Hsu and his association with Hillary Clinton, can be found here, and it follows up with the bad news I just posted about Hillary at the polls.

Long story short, Norman Hsu was the fugitive fundraiser that Hillary Clinton ignored warnings about when accepting his "bundled" monies.

Norman Hsu has also contributed to other politicans.

Today Norman Hsu was indicted in NY:

A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Norman Hsu, a top Democratic fundraiser accused of cheating investors of at least $20 million and using some of the money to make illegal donations to political campaigns.

In the 15-count indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the government accused the 56-year-old clothing-industry entrepreneur of duping investors nationwide with a massive Ponzi scheme.

The government said Hsu also violated federal campaign finance laws by making contributions to various political candidates in the names of others.

The PDF file of his indictment is here (Hot Air)

Text of that indictment:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INDICTMENT
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-v.- 07 Cr.
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NORMAN HSU,
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Defendant. :
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COUNTS ONE THROUGH SIX
(Mail Fraud)
The Grand Jury charges:

Relevant Persons And Entities

1. At all times relevant to this Indictment, NORMAN HSU, the defendant (“HSU”), was the Managing Director of Components Ltd. and of Next Components Ltd.

2. At all times relevant to this Indictment, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, falsely claimed to his victims that Components Ltd. and Next Components Ltd. were involved in
extending short-term financing to businesses.

Overview Of The Scheme To Defraud

3. At all times relevant to this Indictment, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, utilized Components Ltd. and Next Components Ltd. to facilitate a scheme to defraud victims out of tens of millions of dollars.

4. Beginning at least in or about 2000, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, recruited victims by making false promises of guaranteed short-term, high-return investments. On many
occasions, HSU initially repaid victims both the invested principal and interest as promised. Believing Components Ltd. and Next Components Ltd. to be legitimate entities and potentially extremely profitable, and that HSU was trustworthy,
victims then often agreed to roll over their invested funds into new larger investments with HSU, and to recruit others to invest with HSU. HSU then ceased paying the victims the promised interest and did not return the principal.

5. NORMAN HSU, the defendant, convinced victims from across the United States to invest in Components Ltd. and Next Components Ltd. From in or about 2000 through in or about August 2007, HSU convinced his victims to invest at least $60 million in
his fraudulent scheme. In the end, after making certain payments intended to perpetuate the scheme, HSU swindled his victims out of at least $20 million.

6. Between in or about 2004 and 2007, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, in an effort to raise his public profile and thereby convince more victims to invest in his fraudulent scheme, pressured many of his victims to individually contribute
thousands of dollars to various candidates for President of the United States, the United States Senate, and the United States.

House of Representatives (collectively, “Federal Office”) whom HSU supported. HSU made direct and implied threats to these victims, leading them to believe that their failure to make the required political contributions would adversely impact their
ongoing investment relationships with HSU.

7. Between in or about 2005 and 2007, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, also asked victims to contribute to specific candidates for Federal Office, and then directly reimbursed the victims for their contributions from his fraud proceeds, in violation of federal campaign finance laws.

The Solicitation Of Investors

8. NORMAN HSU, the defendant, met potential investors at various locations in New York, New York, including his residence and several hotels.

9. NORMAN HSU, the defendant, recruited victims across the United States to invest in Components Ltd. and Next Components Ltd., primarily through “word-of-mouth” referrals.

10. NORMAN HSU, the defendant, misled victims by telling them that they could make a significant amount of money by investing in HSU’s businesses. HSU obtained victims’ funds by making false promises of guaranteed high rates of return on investments in the short term, and providing guarantees on the long-term return of the principal investment. HSU documented the terms of these investments in written agreements he entered into with his victims.

Operation Of The Scheme To Defraud

11. Victims invested money with NORMAN HSU, the defendant, through Components Ltd. and Next Components Ltd. in a variety of ways. Some victims sent personal checks to HSU. Other victims invested through funds set up to pool money destined for HSU. HSU communicated with victims through a variety of means, including FedEx, interstate facsimile, and emails sent through computer servers operating in interstate commerce.

12. After receiving initial investments from the victims, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, initially repaid both the victims’ interest and principal. To make these initial payments to his victims, however, HSU used money he had solicited from other victims, rather than from returns on any legitimate shortterm financing arrangements. Because victims believed that these initial “investments” had been successful, that Components Ltd. and Next Components Ltd. were legitimate and profitable companies, and that HSU was trustworthy, victims thereafter agreed to roll-over their invested funds into new investments, and often invested additional sums of money in HSU’s fraudulent scheme.

The Collapse Of The Scheme

13. In or about late August 2007 and early September 2007, the victims learned of media accounts describing the legal problems of NORMAN HSU, the defendant. Specifically, victims learned that HSU was a fugitive from law enforcement authorities in California, where he had previously been charged with fraud. Several of the victims contacted HSU at that time, expressing their concerns to HSU that their investments were in danger. HSU falsely reassured many of the victims, stating in sum and substance that their investments were not in danger but that HSU might need additional time to ensure that checks maturing during the next several days would be covered. Notwithstanding HSU’s assurances, however, victims later attempted to cash millions of dollars worth of HSU’s checks, but the checks were not honored by
banks.

14. On or about September 5, 2007, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, failed to report to San Mateo County Court in California for a bail hearing. A warrant was issued for HSU’s
arrest.

15. On or about September 6, 2007, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, became ill while riding on an Amtrak train traveling from California to Denver, Colorado. HSU was removed from the train and taken to a hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado. Later
that day, FBI agents arrested HSU pursuant to a warrant charging him with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution. HSU was then extradited from Colorado to California to face his outstanding state court charges.

Statutory Allegations

16. On or about the dates set forth below, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, having devised and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud and for obtaining money and property by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises, for the purpose of executing such scheme and artifice and attempting so to do, unlawfully, willfully and knowingly did
deposit and cause to be deposited matters and things to be sent and delivered by private and commercial interstate carrier, and did take and receive therefrom, such matters and things, and did knowingly cause to be delivered by mail and such carrier
according to the direction thereon, and at the place at which it was directed to be delivered by the person to whom it was addressed, such matters and things, to wit, HSU caused the following matters and things to be mailed and delivered in furtherance of his scheme via FedEx:

COUNT DATE FROM TO
ONE 1/11/00 Components Ltd., New York, New York
Victim #1 in California

TWO 9/12/03 Components Ltd., New York, New York
Victim #2 in California

THREE 1/16/06 Components Ltd., New York, New York
Victim #3 in New York

FOUR 9/30/06 Components Ltd.,
New York, New York
Victim #4 in California

FIVE 6/14/07 Components Ltd., New York, New York
Victim #5 in California

SIX 8/10/07 Components Ltd., New York, New York
Victim #6 in California

(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1341 and 2.)
COUNTS SEVEN THROUGH TWELVE
(Wire Fraud)


The Grand Jury further charges:

17. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 15 above are hereby repeated, realleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.

18. On or about the dates set forth below, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, having devised and intending to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud, and for obtaining money by means of false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises, unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly, did transmit and cause to be transmitted by means of wire communication in interstate and
foreign commerce, writings, signs, signals, pictures, and sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme and artifices; to wit, HSU caused the following interstate wire transmissions to be made in furtherance of his scheme:

COUNT DATE FROM TO NATURE OF WIRE

SEVEN 1/11/00 Norman Hsu Victim #1 Facsimile sent from New York to California regarding investment of $20,000

EIGHT 9/12/03 Norman Hsu Victim #2 Facsimile sent from New York to California regarding investment of $25,000

NINE 12/31/05 Norman Hsu Victim #3 E-mail regarding investment of $2.6 million

TEN 9/19/06 Norman Hsu Victim #4 E-mail regarding investment of $75,000

ELEVEN 6/8/07 Norman Hsu Victim #5 E-mail regarding investment of $60,000

TWELVE 7/31/07 Norman Hsu Victim #6 E-mail regarding investment of $800,000

19. The e-mails described in Counts Nine through Twelve were sent to and from HSU’s e-mail account at AOL (formerly known as America Online). E-mails sent through AOL always pass through a server in Virginia before being routed to the ultimate recipient.

(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1343 and 2).

COUNT THIRTEEN
(Campaign Finance Fraud)

The Grand Jury further charges:

20. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 15 above are hereby repeated, realleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.

21. In or about 2005, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, knowingly and willfully violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by making contributions to various candidates for President of the United States, the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives in the names of others in excess of $25,000 or more during the calendar year of 2005.

(Title 2, United States Code, Sections 441f and 437g(d)(1)(A).)

COUNT FOURTEEN
(Campaign Finance Fraud)

The Grand Jury further charges:

22. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 15 above are hereby repeated, realleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.

23. In or about 2006, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, knowingly and willfully violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by making contributions to various candidates for President of the United States, the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives in the names of others in excess of $25,000 or more during the calendar year of 2006.

COUNT FIFTEEN
(Campaign Finance Fraud)

The Grand Jury further charges:

24. The allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 15 above are hereby repeated, realleged and incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.

25. In or about 2007, in the Southern District of New York and elsewhere, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, knowingly and willfully violated the Federal Election Campaign Act by makingcontributions to various candidates for President of the United States, the United States Senate, and the United States House of Representatives in the names of others in excess of $25,000 or more during the calendar year of 2007.

(Title 2, United States Code, Sections 441f and 437g(d)(1)(A).)

FORFEITURE ALLEGATION

26. As the result of committing one or more of the mail and wire fraud offenses in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 and 1343, alleged in Counts One through Twelve of this
Indictment, NORMAN HSU, the defendant, shall forfeit to the United States, pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 981(a)(1)(C) and Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461, all property, real and personal, that constitutes or is
derived from proceeds traceable to the commission of the mail and wire fraud offenses, including but not limited to the following:

a. The amount of proceeds obtained as a result of the mail fraud and wire fraud offenses, including but not limited to at least $20 million in United States currency.

b. All United States currency, funds or other monetary instruments held in escrow by the Clerk of the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of San Mateo County, as bail proceeds in the matter of People of the State of California v. Norman Yung Yuen Hsu, No. SC 27698A.

c. All United States currency funds held in deposit in the Registry of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, in the interpleader complaint of John K. Graham, as Trustee of the Post Office Square Special Trust v. Joel Rosenman, Source Financing Investors LLC, Martin L. Waters, Briar WoodInvestments LLC, and Norman Hsu, 07 Civ. 8407 (CSH).

d. A saxophone autographed by a former President of the United States, located on the premises of 160 Wooster Street, Apartment 3C, New York, New York.

e. Various bottles of wine and champagne located on the premises of 160 Wooster Street, Apartment 3C, New York, New York.

f. All United States currency, funds or other monetary instruments seized from the Bank of America, Atlanta, Georgia, including the contents of the following accounts:

(1) Account Number 009505927515, in the name of “Side B, Inc.”;

(2) Account Number 009505927726, in the name of “Next Components, Ltd.”;

(3) Account Number 009420499136, in the name of “Components, Ltd.”.

g. All United States currency, funds or other monetary instruments seized from the Metropolitan Bank, New York, New York, including the contents of Account Number 120154, in the name of Norman Hsu.

Substitute Asset Provision

27. If any of the above-described forfeitable property, as a result of any act or omission of the defendant:

(1) cannot be located upon the exercise of due diligence;

(2) has been transferred or sold to, or deposited with, a third person;

(3) has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the Court;

(4) has been substantially diminished in value; or

(5) has been commingled with other property which cannot be subdivided without difficulty;

It is the intent of the United States, pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 853(p), to seek forfeiture of any other property of said defendant(s) up to the value of the above forfeitable property.

(Title 18, United States Code, Section 981(a)(1)(C),
Title 21, United States Code, Section 853(p);
Title 28, United States Code, Section 2461.)
_________________________ ______________________________
FOREPERSON MICHAEL J. GARCIA
United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York


More on this from Bloomberg, Michelle Malkin and A Blog For All.
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Is It All Finally Catching Up To Hillary Clinton?

Norman Hsu, fundraiser for Hillary Clinton found out to be a fugitive, non existent and illegals listed as donors to Hillary, the Paul vs Clinton (videos detailing that case at the bottom of this post) dealing with finance fraud , the 527 group, America coming together fined $775,000 for violating campaign finance laws, the president being a former Clinton top aide, Harold Ickes, her fumbling publicly on the issue of driver's licenses for illegals then changing her mind 5 times before giving a firm answer, having a known criminal, Sandy Berger as one of her advisers, her campaign admitting to planting questions and an FEC investigation being started.

Which brings up to todays news from Wapo:

The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into InfoUSA, a Nebraska company that used corporate funds to fly Hillary Rodham Clinton around the country, and one of only two companies to put Bill Clinton on its payroll after he left the White House.

The firm, a major provider of database-processing services, disclosed little about the nature of the probe in a filing to shareholders released yesterday.

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Two sources familiar with the company's troubles suggested that investigators would focus their attention on executives' use of company money to feather their own nests. Gupta has been a major financial supporter of the Clintons since he met the president in the mid-1990s. Gupta and his company donated $1 million to help underwrite a lavish year 2000 New Year's Eve celebration at the White House and on the Mall.

He paid the former president $200,000 to deliver a speech to InfoUSA executives in Papillion, Neb., and signed the former president to a $3.3 million consulting deal. For the past four years, both Clintons have used Gupta's corporate plane, flying to Switzerland, Hawaii, Jamaica and Mexico -- about $900,000 worth of travel, The Post reported in May

It was always just a matter of time before Hillary and Bill Clinton's associations with criminal and corruption were formally investigated and at least these types of investigations are being started now.

Her numbers in the latest polls are falling, people are starting to get an idea of the baggage she carries around with her and it isn't just her husbands baggage either, it is her own.

Gateway Pundit has more interesting news about Hillary and shady deals as well as some photos.

These are matters her campaign can ill afford and for the Democratic party she may just become a liability too large to ignore, at least if they had any sense of survival, but that is a discussion for another day.

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Scandal Surround Hillary Clinton Everywhere She Turns

The latest scandal which has the blogosphere buzzing with criticism from the right side and the left is the latest debate and CNN's, who hosted the most recent Democratic debate, lack of full disclosure and conflict of interest, with one of their contributors, James Carville, s a friend and "maxed-out" donor to the Presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

CNN/U.S. president Jon Klein says going forward CNN anchors will be explicit about the Carville-Clinton connection. "He's not on the Hillary payroll, but he's on the Hillary bandwagon, and that should be disclosed as much as we can," Klein told The Times. "I wasn't comfortable with it myself as I watched it."

In and of itself this is relatively minor, but seen in conjunction with the recent scandals that have beset Hillary Clinton over the recent months, shows a campaign in trouble should Democrats nominate her as the candidate of choice for the 2008 presidential elections, which it seems as though they are likely to do.

Last week the scandal was about a planted question, where Mrs. Clinton called upon a "random" questioner in a crowd of a couple hundred, and later that young woman, Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff told reporters that she was approached and coached on what question to ask.

CNN followed up with an interview with Ms. Gallo-Chasanoff where she said "a senior Clinton staffer asked if she'd like to ask the senator a question after an energy speech she gave in Newton, Iowa, on November 6":

Her Reply:

"I sort of thought about it, and I said 'Yeah, can I ask how her energy plan compares to the other candidates' energy plans?'" Gallo-Chasanoff said.

"'I don't think that's a good idea," the staffer said, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, "because I don't know how familiar she is with their plans."

He then opened a binder to a page that, according to Gallo-Chasanoff, had about eight questions on it.

"The top one was planned specifically for a college student," she added. " It said 'college student' in brackets and then the question."

You can watch that interview, via YouTube for yourself, right here.

Following this Ms. Gallo-Chasanoff disclosure, another man stepped forward alleging that the Clinton campaign had also approached the gentleman, Geoffrey Mitchell, 32, at a previous debate, Hayler to ask a question about how she was standing up to President Bush on the question on funding the Iraq war and a troop withdrawal timeline.

Further scandals that have plagued Hillary Clinton recently include but are not limited to:

Norman Hsu, a fundraiser and donor to Hillary Clinton that was a fugitive of the law for over a decade;

Samuel Rivera, Mayor of New Jersey and a Clinton supporter, recently arrester for corruption;

The very public "Paul vs Clinton" legal battle where Hillary will have to testify under oath about Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign understating over $750,000 in contributions to her 2000 Senate campaign, from one Peter Paul, that will be heard in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Hillary’s campaign initially denied even knowing Peter Paul, and then later, admitted meeting him but never had a conversation regarding his contribution to her campaign;

Hillary Clinton's association with the 527 Group, America Coming Together, financed by George Soros, which has been fined $775,000 for violating campaign finance laws.

Her association with that group is via, Harold Ickes, president of America Coming Together, who just "happened" to be a former Bill Clinton Top Aide.

Clinton often refers to criticisms about her as a "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy" but the fact of the matter is, if these situations of her own making did not exist, that conspiracy would have no ammunition against her.

Politics is a nasty business and anybody that jumps into the fray, especially to hold the highest office in the country, must expect every aspect of their lives, their business decisions, their supporters, their campaigns and donors to be scrutinized under a magnifying glass.

If they cannot hold up under such scrutiny, then they should not be in the race to begin with.

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Norman Hsu, Hillary Clinton, Corruption and Campaign Finance Fraud

Will the Hillary Clinton scandals, her supporters, like Mayor Samuel Rivera, being arrested for corruption, her contributors being criminals and her coming under oath for campaign finance fraud, be the end of her presidential aspirations?

Daily News reports that team Clinton cannot explain the fact that they ignored warnings about Norman Hsu.

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton's campaign couldn't explain yesterday why it blew off warnings about felon-turned-fund-raiser Norman Hsu - and the Daily News learned FBI agents are collecting e-mail evidence in the widening scandal.

Clinton was forced Monday to give back a whopping $850,000 raised by convicted scam artist Hsu after learning his investment ventures were being probed by the FBI as a potential Ponzi scheme.

She earlier gave to charity $23,000 Hsu donated himself after reports revealed he fled sentencing for a $1 million scam in California in 1992.

Yesterday, the campaign insisted it did all it should to vet Hsu after California businessman Jack Cassidy warned in June that Hsu's investment operation was fishy. Cassidy e-mailed his tips to the California Democratic Party, which forwarded them to the Clinton campaign.

Cassidy did not want to talk about the case, saying he doesn't want to jeopardize the FBI's efforts. But he wants Hsu prosecuted. He told The News that Hsu was a reverse Robin Hood - "a hood robbin' the poor to give to the rich."

His warning "prompted a search of publicly available information, which did not reveal Mr. Hsu's decade-plus-old warrant," said Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson. He would not say why the campaign didn't follow up on specifics Cassidy included to explain his suspicions.

The NYT's shows us that "money" and "ethics" have always been a worry for Hillary Clinton supporters.

Of all the possible vulnerabilities facing Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton has long believed that the one of the biggest was money, friends and advisers say. Some sort of fund-raising scandal that would echo the Clinton-era controversies of the 1990s and make her appear greedy or ethically challenged.

As a result, Mrs. Clinton told aides this year to vet major donors carefully and help her avoid situations in which she might appear to be trading access for big money, advisers said. Also to be avoided, the senator said, were fund-raising tactics that might conjure up the Clinton White House coffees and the ties to relatively unknown donors offering large sums, like the Asian businessmen who sent checks to the Democratic National Committee.

Yet nine months into her campaign, Mrs. Clinton is grappling with exactly the situation she feared — giving up nearly $900,000 that had been donated or raised by Norman Hsu, a one-time fugitive and one of her top fund-raisers, whose actions raise serious questions about how well the campaign vetted its donors. As a result, Mrs. Clinton now finds herself linked to a convicted criminal who brought in tens of thousands of dollars from potentially tainted sources.

The Hsu case has revived ugly memories for voters about the Democratic fund-raising scandals when Bill Clinton was president, the senator’s campaign advisers acknowledge, a time when both Clintons were often photographed with people whose money later turned out to be dirty, including Johnny Chung and Charlie Trie. Mrs. Clinton is running on her White House experience in the 1990s, and any attention cast on past fund-raising controversies could threaten her image with voters.

More on Jimmy Chung:

WASHINGTON (March 5) -- Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung has agreed to plead guilty to election law violations and cooperate in the ongoing Justice Department investigation into illegal campaign fund-raising in the 1996 elections.

Chung's attorney Brian Sun said in a statement released to CNN, "Mr. Chung has reached an agreement with the government. Mr. Chung wants to put this matter behind him as quickly as possible. He and his family are looking forward to getting on with their lives."

Chung became a major figure in the Democratic fund-raising scandal when it was learned he made almost 50 visits to the White House. During one visit, Chung gave first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's then-chief of staff, Maggie Williams, a $50,000 check for the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The check was delivered inside the White House.

More on Charlie Trie from 1998:

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Jan. 28) -- Charlie Trie, a longtime friend of President Bill Clinton, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington in connection with campaign finance abuses, CNN has learned.

Sources say that a sealed indictment handed down Wednesday accuses Trie of election law violations and mail fraud. However, Trie, believed to be somewhere in Asia, has not been arrested because he cannot be found.

Trie has been one of the central figures in the investigations of alleged improprieties in raising money for the 1996 campaign. He raised a combined $1.2 million for the Democratic National Committee and Clinton's legal defense fund -- money which both entities later returned because of questions about its source.

Congressional investigators have alleged that some of the money Trie contributed to Clinton and the Democrats may have come from sources in China, which are barred by federal law from contributing to American election campaigns.

Trie also has been linked to schemes by which money was distributed to people legally able to contribute, who then allegedly donated it to the Democrats in their names in order to conceal the actual source of the funds.

Trie also was seen on one of the videotapes taken of controversial White House receptions for campaign donors. The tapes were turned over to congressional investigators last November.

More from the NYT article:

Advisers say Mrs. Clinton is not so much furious about the scandal, as she is worried about containing the political damage.

To that end, Clinton campaign aides refused yesterday to release the names of the 260 donors whom Mr. Hsu recruited to the campaign, preferring to wait until they finish their own research on the individuals. Mrs. Clinton and her advisers are concerned that rival campaigns or the news media will dig into the background of each donor, and they want to be prepared if some of the donors end up having money funneled to them from Mr. Hsu or have shady backgrounds.

The campaign is refunding $850,000 to these donors, viewing the money as tainted. Yet the campaign is also risking another public relations mess by saying that it would take back the money if it clearly came from the donor’s bank account, not from Mr. Hsu or another source. The risk is that Mrs. Clinton will appear to want more cash no matter whether it was once colored by a disgraced donor.

The National Ledger points to another scandal associated with Hillary Clinton:

Not to be outdone, the Washington Post has turned up another potential scandal involving the Clintons. In this story, an Indian American businessman, Sant Chatwal, has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for the senator’s campaigns, “even as he battled governments on two continents to escape bankruptcy and millions of dollars in tax liens.”

Lets not forget others that have been other crime stats associated with Hillary and Bill Clinton, when they were in the White House:

Crime Stats:

- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122

Forgetful Clinton "friends":

Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn't remember, didn't know, or something similar.

Hillary Clinton 250.
Bill Kennedy 116
Harold Ickes 148
Ricki Seidman 160
Bruce Lindsey 161
Bill Burton 191
Mark Gearan 221
Mack McLarty 233
Neil Egglseston 250
John Podesta 264
Jennifer O'Connor 343
Dwight Holton
348 Patsy Thomasson 420
Jeff Eller 697

The Washington Times has an interview with Philip "Flip" Pidot:

While Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was arrested last week, blogger Philip "Flip" Pidot was searching for data and crunching numbers to document that the political contributions made by Hsu's network totaled nearly $1.6 million, substantially more than news organizations previously reported.

Posted at his "Suitably Flip" site (http://suitablyflip.blogs.com), Mr. Pidot's blogging reflects the 31-year-old's various interests in economics, technology and politics. A financial analyst with a master's degree in business administration from the University of Virginia, Mr. Pidot was a Republican candidate for the New York state Senate last year, winning 21 percent of the vote in a race against an incumbent Democrat in a liberal district on Manhattan's East Side.

Go read that interview, it is very enlightening although it leaves us with different questions that before reading it.

Last but not least, the Wall Street Journal gives us a clue of who might be behind Norman Hsu and his money.

Hillary has a problem and it cannot be blamed on her "vast right wing conspircay" theory, her problem is her own ethics and finance campaign scandals.

With more than a year before the presidential elections, one has to wonder how much more information is going to see the light of day about Hillary?







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Norman Hsu Apprehended

[Update] Yet another crook holding a fund raiser for Hillary. WOW, it just doesn't end.

[Update below]

Norman Hsu, after being found to be a fugitive for 15 years, turned himself in and was due for sentencing last week, on a previous grand theft charge from 1992, disappeared once again and was sought for unlawful flight.

He was taken into custody at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Co. at 7 p.m. local time.

Hsu was taken off a passenger train at the Grand Junction train station earlier in the day by paramedics who requested a backboard to move him, said Sgt. Lonnie Chavez with the Grand Junction Police Department.

Authorities received a request for medical assistance at the train station at about 11:15 a.m., but the exact nature of Hsu's condition was unclear, Chavez said.

Hsu was traveling on an Amtrak train when he became ill, and Amtrak personnel called an ambulance when the train stopped in Grand Junction, said Pete Smarr, a nursing supervisor at St. Mary’s Hospital. Hsu was listed in fair condition early Friday, but Smarr declined to comment on the nature of Hsu's illness or a timetable for his release from the hospital.

Hsu was arrested in Colorado on federal charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after the California attorney general's office sought assistance from federal authorities in apprehending him, FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler said. The federal charges will be dropped once Hsu is returned to California to face sentencing in state court, Schadler said.

Hsu's attorney told state prosecutors that Hsu had been on a charter flight that arrived at Oakland International Airport at about 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and then dropped out of sight, said Gareth Lacy, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office.

We explained his history of being a major donor to the Democratic party as well as being one of the top donors to Hillary Clinton.

Remember he also had a connection (listed their address as his for a while) to the paw family who came under close scrutiny for their donations to Hillary Clinton also.

( The Paws, who live in this Daly City, Calif., bungalow, donated $45,000 to Hillary Clinton.)

This house was also once listed as the home address of Norman Hsu, according to public records.

Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. in Daly City, Calif., as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show. Their donations closely follow contributions made by a wealthy New York businessman.(See Donation record via WSJ here)

It isn't obvious how the Paw family is able to afford such political largess. Records show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot house that they recently refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, the 64-year-old head of the household, is a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service who earns about $49,000 a year, according to a union representative. Alice Paw, also 64, is a homemaker. The couple's grown children have jobs ranging from account manager at a software company to "attendance liaison" at a local public high school. One is listed on campaign records as an executive at a mutual fund. (Source)

So far what we have is a family of limited means donating an extraordinary amount of money (considering their income) to Hillary Clinton and in smaller part to other Democrats, that lives in a house that was once listed as Mr. Hsu's home address, which makes that connection very obvious.

Now lets take a look at Norman Hsu.

Norman Hsu is one of the leading political fund-raisers in the country this year. In fact, many fund-raisers say he is one of a small handful of people capable of raising more than $1 million -- a major feat considering the maximum donation allowed by an individual for 2008 races is $4,600 per candidate.

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Until three years ago, Mr. Hsu never made a campaign contribution to a presidential candidate, according to federal election records. Now, though, several people involved in raising money for White House candidates say Mr. Hsu is a major player.

Many "HillRaisers" -- people who rustle up at least $100,000 for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- are dwarfed beside Mr. Hsu (pronounced "Shu"). Several people involved in Democratic presidential fund-raising say Mr. Hsu, an apparel executive, has raised well over $1 million for the New York senator's presidential campaign, making him one of the top 20 Democratic fund-raisers in the country. The Clinton campaign doesn't disclose such details and declined to comment for this story.

So, where are we, we have a very rich man that since 2003 has started donating to presidential campaigns, and once lived or listed his address as the same one that a modest family of limited means live in and that family has also donated to the same woman, Hillary Clinton far more than their income should allow.

So Hsu was apprehended and now he must face his sentencing for his crimes in 1992.

Hat Tip to Hot Air, according to 11 News in Colorado, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement assisted in the arrest of Mr. Hsu...wonder why they were involved?

It gets better though, or worse if you are Hillary Clinton.

Yesterday the news came out about 11 people, including Mayors and legislators in NJ that were arrested on corruption charges.

Among those arrested were Democratic state Assemblymen Mims Hackett Jr. and Alfred E. Steele, Passaic Mayor Samuel Rivera, Passaic Councilmen Jonathan Soto and Marcellus Jackson, and five Pleasantville school board members.

See that name I put in bold?

Yet another Hillary Clinton supporter. Anyone surprised?

Among the 11 public officials arrested in an F.B.I. corruption sting in New Jersey today was a leading Democratic supporter of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign in that state, Mayor Samuel Rivera of Passaic.

It was the latest legal embarrassment involving an ally of the Clinton campaign, coming only one day after a wealthy Clinton donor, Norman Hsu, missed his court date in a California fraud case and apparently disappeared.

Clinton advisers this spring and summer have been aggressively touting their long list of endorsements from elected officials and prominent Democratic donors, to indicate the breadth of establishment support that Mrs. Clinton enjoys. Yet, in the case of Mr. Hsu and now Mayor Rivera, the criminal allegations indicate a cost that can come with quickly rounding up political support from far and wide. (Source)

The embarrassments keep coming from Hillary supporters, don't they?

The bigger picture:

Hsu and Mayor Rivera are not the only time that Hillary has had direct or indirect ties to campaign financing scandals or corruptions scandals.

Recently the 527 Group, America coming together, funded by George Soros, also had to agree to the third largest FEC penalty in its three decade old existence, and lo and behold, the president of that group was none other than former top Clinton aide Harold Ickes.

Here is FEC statement for that.

Coincidence that Hillary's name keeps coming up in conjunction with fraud, campaign finance scandals and people arrested for corruption?

How about the historic civil suit, Paul v Clinton heading to the Los Angeles Superior Court?

Evidence of Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign understating over $750,000 in contributions to her 2000 Senate campaign, from one Peter Paul.

Evidently, Hillary’s campaign initially denied even knowing Peter Paul, and then later, admitted meeting him but never had a conversation regarding his contribution to her campaign.

Hillary Clinton will finally be under oath in the historic civil suit, Paul v Clinton in Los Angeles Superior Court. Voters are going to see the details of the greatest campaign finance fraud in history and the Clinton role in the collapse of Stan Lee Media.

Here is the TIMELINE that even the mainstream media can understand:

TIMELINE:

Feb. 2000 - Peter Paul is induced to support Hillary’s 2000 Senate campaign with the promise of access to Bill Clinton to be able to make a proposal to come aboard Stan Lee Media as a rainmaker when he left the WH

June 9, 2000 - Paul pays for two Hillary Clinton fundraisers at Spago and the home of Cynthia Gershman … the costs are never declared by the campaign (note: a previous fundraiser through Rendell for Al Gore, paid for by Paul, was also never declared; Rendell also never declared a 150K stock pledge) … at the Spago lunch, Paul spent considerable time with Hillary and discussed his plan for her husband’s employment… see the 20/20 report from 2001…Amazingly, in her declaration of 4-7-06, Hillary acts as if she barely knew Peter Paul and claimed she couldn’t remember anything they might have said. Besides the email comments, Paul has video of her going on and on about how Stan Lee was a genius for hiring Paul. She is really excited about Paul’s idea of a cartoon character of Al Gore, and she wants to talk to Tony Coehlo and Terry McAuliffe about it. Her failure to remember is simply a lie.

June 23, 2000 - Kelly Craighead (a White House employee, not part of any joint funraising committee), Jim Levin, David Rosen (all agents of Hillary and Bill) meet with Aaron Tonken (agent of Paul and fundraiser for Ed Rendell) to originate the idea for a major fundraising event for Hillary as part of the Aug. 14-20 DNC Convention in L.A.

July 11, 2000 - conference call between Peter Paul, Tonken, Craighead, Wolfson, Levin, and Rosen in which Paul is solicited to pay for the Hollywood Gala….he is asked to pay $525K, and it is expected that Cynthia Gershman will pay a like amount….it was acknowledged by all that the fundraiser would cost over a million dollars

July 17, 2000 - Paul films the SMOKING GUN VIDEO. This video was withheld by an assistant US ATTY while investigations were proceeding. Hillary is shown soliciting and coordination the $1.6 mil in-kind, hard money donation. Kelly Craighead kept her completely briefed and she offered any help she could. David Kendall’s claim that this was a joint fundraiser, and thus hard money, won’t fly. Craighead was a White House employee who solicited the money on July 11. Hillary was part of closing the deal on July 17.

Aug. 12, 2000 - Hollywood Gala… it raises a million dollars for Hillary, but it cost over a million dollars…Paul spent several hours with Bill Clinton… here they are putting the final touches on the deal at the after concert dinner… Look at all the photos of the gala… Hillary actually said in her declaration of 4-7-06, “I remember Mr. Paul attending the event…” How insulting was that? Actually, she spent hours near him and publicly thanked him from the stage for all he did.

Aug 13 - Paul and his wife Andrea are at the home of Barbra Streisand for Clinton Library donors…when Hillary sees Andrea, she runs over to her, brings her over to Streisand, and introduces her as “the wife of the man who funded last night’s event…my new best friend”… Streisand’s testimony should be interesting… Chelsea came up to the table with Paul, Andrea, Tendo Oto, Oto’s interpreter Jonathon Rogers, Jim Levin, and Haim Saban. Chelsea discussed for at least a half an hour how excited she and her parents were about her dad coming to work for the creator of Spider Man… Hillary sets up her daughter for perjury

Aug. 13 - Tendo Oto and SLM make their deal for Asian partnership - Oto gives $5 mil and promises another $5-7 mil in November for the American joint venture…On Aug. 12 he had paid $27K to attend the federal fundraiser gala. Giving money was illegal. Attending was illegal. Since Oto had no social security number to check out when he showed up at the event with his camera crew, the Secret Service said no way. Clinton had the Secret Service stand down, and Oto sat directly behind the president and first lady.

Aug 14 - Ed Rendell calls Peter Paul in a panic. Lloyd Grove is preparing a story for the WASHPOST about Paul’s felony record for “The Cuban Coffee Caper” two decades previous when he was an international attorney in Miami. Rendell tells Paul to deny he gave any money and just play along. Shortly after the warning call, Grove called. Here is the callsheet from SLM, certified by the government as evidence.

Aug 15 - Lloyd Grove writes the story in the WASHPOST about Paul’s felony past from two decades previous involving the Cuban Coffee Caper and defrauding Fidel Castro of $8.7 million … Howard Wolfson vows that they would never take any money from Peter Paul

Aug 17 - Grove writes a second story about $2,000 given by Paul at Spago … Wolfson says they will return the money, and a check is immediately cut and sent to Paul … Wolfson actually admits that the gala cost a million dollars but says it was in-kind and not a check. (Ummm, in-kind is hard money, Howard)

Aug 18 - behind the scenes, while disavowing him in public, the Clintons write personal notes to Paul, dated Aug 18, espressing their gratitude … Hillary: “We will remember it always”… Bill’s note… Even Chelsea got into the act.

Aug 24 - Campaign Finance Chairman David Rosen is directed to send a fax to Paul asking for another $100,000 (actually, one of several faxes) … Hillary had promised the money for the Working Families Party in New York … Paul will send no more money until he hears it face to face from Bill Clinton that they still have a deal (second document shows Gordon’s acknowledgement that it was “done”)

Sept. 22, 2000 - Clinton steps off AF-1 in Los Angeles (we have photo) and assures Paul that the deal is still a go … Paul has Steven Gordon send a stock transfer of $55K to the Working Families Party for Hillary… we can find no evidence that they ever declared that donation. If the Clintons were disavowing Paul in public, claimed he gave no money, and had no business arrangement with the President as claimed by Hillary, why would the President of the United States be meeting Paul in public as he stepped off AF-1? For what possible purpose? That’s not hard to figure out, is it?

Nov 7 - Hillary is elected

Nov 13 - just six days after Hillary’s election, an agreement for Venture Soft USA Inc is recorded in Illinois between Jim Levin, Clinton’s business adviser, and Tendo Oto … Levin was Clinton’s “eyes and ears” in dealing with Paul, got proprietary business information, and stole the Japanese partner for their own deal

Dec 2000 - Stan Lee Media collapses … the additional $5-7 million promised in November from partner Tendo Oto was not received due to the Clinton/Levin interference In Paul v Clinton, it will be proven that Oto’s money would have kept the company solvent until Clinton came aboard as he had promised Peter Paul.

Early 2001 - Paul discovers that the campaign has filed two fraudulent FEC reports, only reporting 366K for the cost of Event 39 … he spent over a million dollars on it

June 18, 2001 - Paul files initial lawsuit against the Clintons and several others for business fraud

July 3 - Treasurer Andrew Grossman is served with the lawsuit that includes documentation for $1.6 million spent by Paul

July 11 - David Kendall accepts service for Hillary along with the $1.6 million documented expenses

July 18 - press conference at National Press Club . Paul has messenger hand deliver a demand letter to Hillary’s senate office

July 30 - despite Paul’s demand and all of the documentation, a third false FEC report is filed … this time they declare $401K for Event 39 … still no mention of Paul as the real donor

Jan 2005 - criminal indictment of David Rosen is unsealed

May 2005 - Rosen acquitted in criminal trial in Los Angeles…the perjury in this trial was astounding…the judge and prosecutor went out of their way to condemn Paul and claim that Hillary had nothing to do with it is also astounding… FBI affidavit during the trial documenting $1.2 mil from Paul that was not declared. The prosecution does not call Paul, Aaron Tonken, or key witness Kelly Craighead (Craighead was also never called by the FEC - she will be a key witness in Paul v Clinton)…. The prosecution does not use damaging evidence against Rosen obtained while Ray Reggie (brother in law of Ted Kennedy) was wearing a wire. In Tonken’s book, KING OF CONS, he tells how he sat in a van with Hillary detailing all of the money that was being spent on her.

Dec 2005 - FEC determines that the campaign deliberately underreported $721,000, fines the campaign a mere $35,000, and orders a new filing…treasurer Andrew Grossman signs conciliation agreement with the FEC, the equivalent of a nolo contendre plea

Jan 2006 - thefourth fraudulent FEC report is filed … among the problems are Stan Lee (whom we have on tape in a deposition swearing that he gave no money) is credited with a 225K donation and Paul is still never named personally as the donor as he has demanded

April 7, 2006 - Hillary removed as defendant but judge made clear to Kendall that she would be testifying … the declaration turned into the court by Kendall for Hillary can only be described as a work of fiction … no reporters attended the hearing and not one mainstream media source wrote that a trial date had been set for defendant Bill Clinton (trial date postponed until appeal is heard to bring Hillary back in as a defendant) … Chelsea will be one of the witnesses called … although her mom claims no knowledge of the business deal, if Chelsea testifies honestly, she will tell how the family stayed up late after the gala playing scrabble and discussing the excitement of daddy going to work for the creator of Spiderman … from a private fundraiser at Zev Braun’s house in early 2000, Paul has home video of Hillary laughing and discussing with him how he had arranged in 1993 for Fabio to chase her around the room and pick her up in a romance pose…the president referenced that event the next year at the Italian-American Foundation Dinner…. her declaration claiming that she met Paul in early 2000 is simply a lie

June 2006 - Senate Ethics Committee announces it will not investigate Hillary and simply relies on the flawed FEC procedure … subsequently, they refuse Paul’s offer to appear and testity

Oct. 18, 2006 - new demand letter for return of over a million dollars is delivered to Hillary’s DC office with copy delivered to Sen. Voinovich, chair of the Senate Ethics Committee

Jan. 10, 2007 - Paul counsel files Appellate Brief to bring Hillary back into the case as a defendant (that delays the trial date for Bill, set for March 27, 2007…it also delays depositions)….no mainstream media source had reported that defendant Bill Clinton had a trial date in a case involving the collapse of Spiderman Stan Lee’s company)

April 2007 - after a two-year battle for the return of evidence, including home videos, an assistant US atty provides Paul with a list of items they will return to him…..included was the “smoking gun video”: July 17, 5-minute conference call, Hillary Clinton….. when the numerous pieces of evidence were finally sent, the shipment did not include that video…..Paul’s counsel argues vehemently for that to be sent….Paul believes that a low-level functionary screwed up by putting that piece of evidence on the manifest — Hillary never thought it would see the light of day…that video was finally sent because they could not deny its possession

June 20, 2007 - look at this page under “Latest Filings” for June 20 briefs and declarations

July 27, 2007 - court notification that oral arguments are set for Sept. 7 before the California Court of Appeals…. a decision on whether Hillary is brought back in as a defendant is expected within 10 days thereafter…. then, it is time for depositions…. if David Kendall loses, he may appeal to the California Supreme Court…..that court had earlier refused to hear the argument about removal of Bill Clinton from the case…. Kendall may be able to delay it for a short time, but depositions are expected to begin this year.

ADDITIONAL INFO: THE FRAUDULENT SENATOR SERIES

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REPORTED ON: AMERICAN THINKER

REPORTED ON: POWERLINE

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REPORTED ON: NO HILLARY CLINTON

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All of this is quite coincidental isn't it?

Lately we even see that the movie "Path to 9/11" and its DVD release, or shall I say, the release no one can seem to nail down, is also being associated with the Clintons.

From the LA Times:

Among the nearly two dozen television DVDs slated for nationwide release on Sept. 11 is the second season of "Bones," the third season of "Grey's Anatomy" and the miniseries "The Starter Wife" that aired earlier this year. Not on the list on that day or any other in the near future is last year's highly controversial "The Path to 9/11."

The $40-million, five-hour ABC miniseries, which recently received seven Emmy nominations and drew a combined two-night audience of more than 25 million viewers, is for now on the path to nowhere. Its Amazon page reads: "Currently unavailable. We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock."

With no date for the release, questions are being raised about whether political pressure is behind its current status as a stalled or discarded DVD project. The reasons are murky, but the miniseries' writer, Cyrus Nowrasteh, believes it's crystal clear: Powerful forces are out to protect Bill Clinton's presidential legacy and shield Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) from any potential collateral damage in her bid for the White House.

Nowrasteh, also one of the miniseries' many producers, said he was told by a top executive at ABC Studios that "if Hillary weren't running for president, this wouldn't be a problem."

"Whatever anyone may think about me or this movie, this is a bad precedent, a dangerous precedent, to allow a movie to be buried," added Nowrasteh, who received death threats even before the miniseries was broadcast last September. "Because the next time they'll go after another movie. The Bush administration may go after a movie. The next administration may go after a movie. No matter who it is, they may go after a movie. I think this town needs to stand up."

Even before "The Path to 9/11" aired on ABC late last summer, the docudrama ignited a political firestorm, almost entirely from high-profile Democratic leaders who viewed its account of events leading up to the terrorist attacks as a right-wing hatchet job on the Clinton administration and its efforts to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Attempts to pressure ABC to cancel the miniseries at the time were unsuccessful, but last-minute network edits were imposed to quell the critical outcry.

I said in a post not long ago that if the Democratic political party backed Hillary Clinton as the presidential candidate for the 2008 elections, that would be a gift to the GOP because there is so much scandal, corruption and campaign finance problems associated, directly AND indirectly with Hillary Clinton that would constantly come out, the American voters would not want that kind of corruption in the White House again.

Hillary Clinton believes that if she screams, right wing conspiracy machine, loud enough she can avoid the facts and the ammunition that HER questionable activities, donors and campaign scandals give to her opponents.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck... most of the time, it IS A DUCK.



[Update]

(CNSNews.com) - Barely a week after questions emerged about suspicious donations to Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, a three-judge panel in California will hear arguments Friday regarding an illegal fundraising event from her 2000 Senate campaign.

The California Court of Appeals, Second Appellate District, will hear arguments about whether Clinton, a New York senator and leading Democratic presidential candidate, should be a defendant in a lawsuit brought by Hollywood mogul Peter Paul.

Attorneys for each side will also debate the inclusion of a videotape as evidence -- a video in which Clinton can be heard apparently agreeing to plan a fundraiser, which was later determined to be illegal by the Federal Elections Commission (FEC).

The appeals court, made of two Democratic appointees and one Republican appointee, will issue a ruling within 90 days.

Paul's legal counsel, the United States Justice Foundation (USJF), filed a brief in July. It said the videotape "captures the very commission of a crime, namely, that of knowingly soliciting, coordinating and accepting federal campaign contributions far in excess of the legal limit of $2,000."

Clinton's attorney filed a brief in response that claimed the tape is "pure fantasy" and "much ado about nothing."

Paul is appealing a California Superior Court ruling that dismissed Hillary Clinton from an earlier lawsuit under a statute that protects politicians from harassing or frivolous lawsuits. Paul's legal team argues the statute does not apply to a political figure who violates the law.

"We will accomplish what Ken Starr wasn't able to achieve," Paul told Cybercast News Service, referring to the independent counsel who investigated several Clinton scandals in the 1990s. "We have three judges reviewing Hillary Clinton's illegal conduct. Presidential candidates have never been forced to defend themselves in court from being a felon."

More from the Blotter.

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Norman Hsu: A fugitive again

We told you about Norman Hsu and his massive contributions to the Democratic party as well as the fact that he was a fugitive, once again linking Hillary Clinton and others to campaign scandals once again.

He turned himself in, was ordered to turn in his passport and was due in court again this morning.

He didn't show.

Norman Hsu, the bigtime Democratic Party fundraiser who was a fugitive from a pending prison term for years while raising money for prominent Democrats including Sen. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, failed to appear for a bail hearing in Redwood City, Calif. this morning.

His lawyer says he has no idea where his client is. And Hsu did not turn in his passport as required.

An arrest warrant was issued.

Hsu pleaded no contest in 1991 to a felony count of grand theft, admitting he'd defrauded investors of $1 million in a bogus investment scam. Prosecutors say he was facing up to three years in prison when he skipped town before being sentenced.

Federal Election Commission records show Hsu donated more than a quarter-million dollars to Democrats and their party since 2004.

By not appearing, Hsu forfeits his request to cut his $2 million bond in half.

After his fugitive status was made very public, the majority of those that have received contributions from him agreed to donate those contributions to charities, although not all.

A spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party said this morning that it would not return the $58,000 in contributions it’s received from Norman Hsu, who recently turned himself in to authorities in California after 15 years as a fugitive.

“Our contributions were received, properly disclosed and utilized in the previous election cycle,” said Wade Munday, a Democratic Party spokesman.

The decision runs contrary to other Democratic politicians who have received contributions from Hsu, a prominent party donor.

Hillary was against donating those contributions before she was for it.

Now, despite Mr. Hsu's fugitive status, Hillary Clinton's campaign says there is no reason to return any donations made by Mr. Hsu.

The Clinton campaign said today that it saw no reason to return donations from two major campaign contributors whose donations, according to the Wall Street Journal, closely track one another.

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[Update] Looks like Hillary sees how bad her association with Hsu looks and has decided to give part of her contributions from him to charity..I wonder if that also includes the Paw's contributions also.

More from Fox News and Gateway Pundit..

Point of note: Clean cut Barack Obama seems to be one of those politicians that has refused to return those donations.

More to come when and if the keystone cops manage to capture the fugitive Norman Hsu.





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Hillary Clinton, The Paw Family and Norman Hsu

( The Paws, who live in this Daly City, Calif., bungalow, donated $45,000 to Hillary Clinton. )

This house was also once listed as the home address of Norman Hsu, according to public records.

Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. in Daly City, Calif., as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005, election records show. Their donations closely follow contributions made by a wealthy New York businessman.(See Donation record via WSJ here)

It isn't obvious how the Paw family is able to afford such political largess. Records show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot house that they recently refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, the 64-year-old head of the household, is a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service who earns about $49,000 a year, according to a union representative. Alice Paw, also 64, is a homemaker. The couple's grown children have jobs ranging from account manager at a software company to "attendance liaison" at a local public high school. One is listed on campaign records as an executive at a mutual fund. (Source)

So far what we have is a family of limited means donating an extraordinary amount of money (considering their income) to Hillary Clinton and in smaller part to other Democrats, that lives in a house that was once listed as Mr. Hsu's home address, which makes that connection very obvious.

Now lets take a look at Norman Hsu.

Norman Hsu is one of the leading political fund-raisers in the country this year. In fact, many fund-raisers say he is one of a small handful of people capable of raising more than $1 million -- a major feat considering the maximum donation allowed by an individual for 2008 races is $4,600 per candidate.

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Until three years ago, Mr. Hsu never made a campaign contribution to a presidential candidate, according to federal election records. Now, though, several people involved in raising money for White House candidates say Mr. Hsu is a major player.

Many "HillRaisers" -- people who rustle up at least $100,000 for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign -- are dwarfed beside Mr. Hsu (pronounced "Shu"). Several people involved in Democratic presidential fund-raising say Mr. Hsu, an apparel executive, has raised well over $1 million for the New York senator's presidential campaign, making him one of the top 20 Democratic fund-raisers in the country. The Clinton campaign doesn't disclose such details and declined to comment for this story.

So, where are we, we have a very rich man that since 2003 has started donating to presidential campaigns, and once lived or listed his address as the same one that a modest family of limited means live in and that family has also donated to the same woman, Hillary Clinton far more than their income should allow.

So far so good right?

More about Norman Hsu from the LA Times and this is where things start to unravel because Mr. Hsu is a fugitive from the law.

WASHINGTON -- For the last 15 years, California authorities have been trying to figure out what happened to a businessman named Norman Hsu, who pleaded no contest to grand theft, agreed to serve up to three years in prison and then seemed to vanish.

"He is a fugitive," Ronald Smetana, who handled the case for the state attorney general, said in an interview. "Do you know where he is?"

Hsu, it seems, has been hiding in plain sight, at least for the last three years.

Since 2004, one Norman Hsu has been carving out a prominent place of honor among Democratic fundraisers. He has funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions into party coffers, much of it earmarked for presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York.

In addition to making his own contributions, Hsu has honed the practice of assembling packets of checks from contributors who bear little resemblance to the usual Democratic deep pockets: A self-described apparel executive with a variety of business interests, Hsu has focused on delivering hefty contributions from citizens who live modest lives and are neophytes in the world of campaign giving.

On Tuesday, E. Lawrence Barcella Jr. -- a Washington lawyer who represents the Democratic fundraiser -- confirmed that Hsu was the same man who was involved in the California case. Barcella said his client did not remember pleading to a criminal charge and facing the prospect of jail time. Hsu remembers the episode as part of a settlement with creditors when he also went through bankruptcy, Barcella said.

Now, despite Mr. Hsu's fugitive status, Hillary Clinton's campaign says there is no reason to return any donations made by Mr. Hsu.

The Clinton campaign said today that it saw no reason to return donations from two major campaign contributors whose donations, according to the Wall Street Journal, closely track one another.

Mr. Hsu is also slated to host a campaign fund raiser for Hillary Clinton, in Northern California on September 30, 2007.

Hsu is slated to host a Sept. 30 fund-raiser in Northern California for Clinton.

Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said that there are no plans to return cash donated either by the Paws or by Hsu, and that the fund-raiser will go on as planned.

Is it usual for fugitives of justice to be hosting campaign fund raising events for candidates?

Is it usual for so many legal questions to surrounding a candidates contributions?

It is if you are Hillary Clinton. (Click link to see the whole time line of events)

In the following timeline, we will see apparent evidence of Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign understating over $750,000 in contributions to her 2000 Senate campaign, from one Peter Paul.

Evidently, Hillary’s campaign initially denied even knowing Peter Paul, and then later, admitted meeting him but never had a conversation regarding his contribution to her campaign.

Hillary Clinton will finally be under oath in the historic civil suit, Paul v Clinton in Los Angeles Superior Court. Voters are going to see the details of the greatest campaign finance fraud in history and the Clinton role in the collapse of Stan Lee Media.

TIMELINE.

Let us not forget the crime statistics associated with the last Clinton administration:

Crime Stats:

- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment, fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses) refused to be interviewed: 122

Forgetful Clinton "friends":

Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before Congress said that they didn't remember, didn't know, or something similar.

Hillary Clinton 250.
Bill Kennedy 116
Harold Ickes 148
Ricki Seidman 160
Bruce Lindsey 161
Bill Burton 191
Mark Gearan 221
Mack McLarty 233
Neil Egglseston 250
John Podesta 264
Jennifer O'Connor 343
Dwight Holton
348 Patsy Thomasson 420
Jeff Eller 697

Folks, this is a the prefect example of the old adage, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, chances are, it is, indeed, a duck.

Follow all the links above and ask yourself one final question.

Will Americans vote for a person that has such close associations with fraud and crime and fugitives?

Hillary can claim all she wants that there is some vast right wing conspiracy against her, but if her actions didn't warrant such close scrutiny then what would this vast conspiracy have to use against her?

She believes the statement alone, the words "vast right wing conspiracy" is a get out of jail free card for her to accept questionable donations, be associated with fugitives and criminals, have a fugitive host her campaign fund raisers and to claim under oath 250 times that she couldn't remember, didn't know or something along those lines.

I repeat what I said on a previous post, linked above, if the Democrats are foolish enough to make Hillary the nominated candidate for presidency, that is the best news the GOP could ever get.

[Update]

More from Liberty Pundit.

You have a strong case beginning to build that the Clintons will violate every fundraising law if it helps them get elected. Bill used the Lincoln bedroom as a pay-for-stay bed and breakfast, accepted donations from foreign sources, and a litany of other shady deals.

Hillary was caught on video (audio, actually) possibly violating some federal election laws. So it’s not a huge stretch of the imagination to believe that they’re engaged in some of the same old corrupt bargains to gain power.

Go read the rest of Brian's piece.

[Update] Looks like Hillary sees how bad her association with Hsu looks and has decided to give part of her contributions from him to charity..I wonder if that also includes the Paw's contributions also.


Others discussing this:
A Blog For All, Flopping Aces, Wizbang, Don Surber, Captain's Quarters, Gateway Pundit, Hot Air.


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