Big Dem Fundraiser Wanted On Swindling Charges

Los Angeles Times:

The Los Angeles Times will report on this website later tonight and in Wednesday's print editions that a major Democratic Party fundraiser named Norman Hsu is wanted by authorities for skipping out on an agreement to serve up to three years in prison after pleading no contest to grand theft swindling charges.

In an exclusive story by Chuck Neubauer and Robin Fields, The Times will report that for three years Hsu has been carving out a place of political and financial influence by funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions into Democratic Party coffers, much of the money earmarked for Sen. Hillary Clinton. He has earned the ranking of Hillraiser for pledging to raise at least $100,000 for her.

In just the last 36 months Hsu has been involved in raising more than $1 million for Clinton and other Democrats. Howard Wolfson, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, confirmed today that Hsu had been a "longtime and generous supporter" of the party including Clinton. "We have no reason to call his contributions into question or to return them," Wolfson added.

Read the whole story: Los Angeles Times

Comments

[hugs4u]

07:31 PM on 08/29/2007

That is why this country doesn't need another clinton in the white house. Draft Gore at the democratic national convention.

[TJTelecaster]

05:15 PM on 08/29/2007

They got more than business they got our Loral intermediate range missile designs and the Hughes nose cone technology, and more 600 super computers and the software they needed to test and build our entire stolen nuclear arsenal along with the neutron bomb..

All from the Clintons..!

[cuzkate]

06:19 PM on 08/29/2007

Could the Clinton Garage sale be any less horrible than all of the lost billions and the lost ammo that has been pretty solidly said has been used by enemies of various varities to wholesale kill our sons and daughters? I wonder whose watch this belongs to? This is not a justification that two wrongs make a right. They don't. This is an incestuos world due solely because of greed. Bad behavior should not be rewarded by a vote.

[hugs4u]

03:19 PM on 08/29/2007

Hi liar should return all the money given to her.
The country needs Al Gore.

[realitytrumpsbull]

02:53 PM on 08/29/2007

I've long held that both of our parties are basically corrupt, at least now they're starting to go after these guys/gals...

[andyboy]

02:30 PM on 08/29/2007

How do you people think the Chinese got all that American business and those American jobs?

How stupid are Americans? Very.

Your government despises you and sells you out to the highest bidder all day every day.

I read your blogs and I'd say maybe 5% of all of you understand. American politicians and American corporations are who's behind the huge economic boom over there.

Look at all of these blogs. One after the other concerned with nothing more than partisan name calling. Your what's wrong with America. Hillary or Joe Lieberman there is NO difference. Two whores.

Dennis Kucinich? A whore with a conscience.

He's still a whore.

[cuzkate]

04:20 PM on 08/29/2007

Of course both Parties are corrupt but to say we are going after these agents from China is just absolute pie in the sky. There is not a net big enough to ensnare the entire globe. People,we are who we elect! Do not forget which Party opened up the doors to China and mark my words--they will get us without firing a SHOT!! Every CEO who does business and trades with China and his or her company product has caused harm to just one citizen of this country(USA) should be made to gargle with the paint used for Thomas the Train. Guess what citizens--It ain't gonna get any better any sooner.

[cuzkate]

02:28 PM on 08/29/2007

How long have the neo-Roves been sitting on the missing Hsu report?? Not quite as long as the "Charmin" Sen. from " Idaho"(no pun intended} has been sitting on various toilet stalls through out the land!! Wouldn"t you like to get a look at his travel-log? I suggest that they might try CHINA to find Mr. Hsu

[TJTelecaster]

01:00 PM on 08/29/2007

Hillary is her Chinese "Manchurian" Candidacy..

[ctbutte]

12:35 PM on 08/29/2007

Dems back to taking the Chinese money again.

Deja vu all over again

[gardengoddess]

12:49 PM on 08/29/2007

Maybe, but so far the Chinese haven't launched a terrorist attack against the U.S. like a bin Laden has, and the bin Ladens have always been a staunch financial backer of the Bush family.

[ctbutte]

01:30 PM on 08/29/2007

No moron, the Chinese just used their campaign checks to by missile and rocket technology.

Are you really this stupid?

[GoodbyeKitty]

01:34 PM on 08/29/2007

There are all kinds of Chinese dicks up GOP butts these days too

[castlerider]

07:06 PM on 08/29/2007

Boy, you got that right.

How about Bush letting it go all these years, allowing China to keep buying dollars, putting us in debt for decades, so he can have money, BORROWED money, to fight his "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" war that never was...
Say what ever these a**holes will about Clinton, he left us with a reserve. And no, it WAS real. because we paid off the interest. we were no longer getting trounced financially like 41 and Reagan had us paying all that damn interest. Now we're back deeper then ever.... WAYYYY up the chinaman's butt, where the stupid trolls like it...
No wonder they prefer bathroom stalls.

[VEGAN]

11:53 AM on 08/29/2007

Is "swindle" an appropriate term? Does it come from the creatures who were labeled "swine" and such as to say, and they then are MURDERED...

Is it like the "n-word"

[poomplet]

10:56 AM on 08/29/2007

This will bite her in the ass, and as someone who's convinced a Hillary nom will ensure another GOP president, I'm thrilled!

I'm not saying it'll kill her campaign, but it will hurt it. It has ALL the convoluted trappings of classic Clintonian scheming (Whitewater, 'Travelgate' Hillary's investment windfall), but the biggest thing is it digs up all the old connections/questions re. sleazy CHINESE INFLUENCE that dogged Bill.

As well it should...that was obscene. I dunno enough about Hsu or "how Chinese" he is, but it won't be hard for critics/competitors to paint this with a big, fat, chinese-character ink brush!! And of course, these days China is ridingn a wave of negativity here, which can/will make this even worse than in the '90s.

Again, I'm glad...I hope it knocks her down several pegs. Cuz I'm DYING to oust the jesusfreaks from office, but I WILL NOT VOTE FOR HILLARY....ever.

[GoodbyeKitty]

01:33 PM on 08/29/2007

Maybe someone needs to show the "sleazy Chinese Influence" in the Bush admin and the neo-con/republican and Pat Robertson-700club types(Yes , they do have business ventures in China too)

[andyboy]

02:17 PM on 08/29/2007

Bravo. Hillary is a Republican.

[kentj]

02:50 PM on 08/29/2007

Hillary has always been a republican.

[Soulsurfer]

10:51 AM on 08/29/2007

They just can't help themselves. As long as the system is set up as a contest for the most cash, both sides will be caught up in these slimy schemes. Shopping for pols is the all the craze on Wall St.

[nagamaki]

10:27 AM on 08/29/2007

It's public campaign financing stupid! As long as this BS continues, the only winners will be the corrupt for profit corporate fascist lobbyists. "Here today, here tomorrow"

[accountability]

12:36 PM on 08/29/2007

agreed.
No more private donations at all.
Definitely no more lobbyists or corporate donations.
Ever
again.

One can dream.

[turningpoint]

10:19 AM on 08/29/2007

Bullshit

WSJ omitted key information in article about Clinton donations from "unlikely address"
http://mediamatters.org/items/200708280016?f=h_top

JustHillary asked, "How did poor family donate $45,000 [to Clinton camp]?" but facts reported by WSJ tell different story
http://mediamatters.org/items/200708280010?f=i_related

[maxfusion]

10:44 AM on 08/29/2007

The address is a front for Chinese money. The same folks that financed the rapist while he was in office. He in turn funneled technology to them. Ah the Clintons, they are consistent. There's nothing they won't sell.

[BreadandRoses]

11:08 AM on 08/29/2007

Your irrational hatred for the Clintons is pathological.

And if you wish to accuse Bill Clinton of being a rapist, you need to provide the proof.

Oh, wait---you can't---because there is no proof of any such thing.

You're just a typical lying rightwing stooge.

[accountability]

12:34 PM on 08/29/2007

wow, so insightful, so erudite, so complex in thought, so well documented with proof.
So riddled with irrational hatred.

[accountability]

12:33 PM on 08/29/2007

Thanks for posting the links.
Not that anyone will read it who wants to believe the worst.
They are always around.

I did the math and the whole story is ridiculous but you can bet it will have legs fueled by Hillary Hater Pro's from both sides on a mission.

I guess you can't really call it the vast right wing conspiracy anymore since many on the left are now part of of the hate.

[GoodbyeKitty]

01:24 PM on 08/29/2007

No doubt.

[Eoin45]

10:04 AM on 08/29/2007

Trolls: Please will note that HufPo published this despite the fact that it was a Democrat involved. Do you think that Fox would have done the same thing if it was a Republican?

[Ramirez]

10:49 AM on 08/29/2007

Yes.

[Fuji]

11:21 AM on 08/29/2007

Huh. I am a conservative and I complimented HUFFPO for posting this story. I thought it was a nice gesture, but it was deleted anyway. Go figure.

[TimmySlagle]

12:41 PM on 08/29/2007

Eoin45 writes: "Do you think that Fox would have done the same thing if it was a Republican?"

Check this out:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295005,00.html

[lungwort]

06:19 PM on 08/29/2007

Yes they would. Where the Huff Post's story on this news on Soros?

The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the last cycle’s biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to boost John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections.

You see, Hilary's too conservative for the folks here, so they'll run the story. They won't touch the Soros story though. He's a fellow lefty.

[castlerider]

06:54 PM on 08/29/2007

This money graft is EVERWHERE. Right and Left.

At least the Dem Congress got started on lobbying reform. It's got a long ways to go, but Rethugs wouldn't touch it.
They must've been too busy in their lobbyist's bathroom stalls.

[AmericaIsATerroist]

10:01 AM on 08/29/2007

TROOOOLLLLLLL FLOOOOOOODDDDD!!!!!

[Elmo]

10:10 AM on 08/29/2007

really? where?

[accountability]

12:22 PM on 08/29/2007

oh, they will be coming... put on the boots and get ready.