Is Hillary Clinton's leading campaign donor a fugitive of the law?

[antiimperialist]

The WSJ posted a highly speculative article yesterday suggesting that a family that donated money to Bill Clinton could not have possibly afforded to do so based on their income. The WSJ did not disclose the salary of each of the 6 family members who donated to Clinton.

Now the LA Times is quoting a CA lawyer saying that Mr. Norman Hsu, linked to the Paw family, is a fugitive who has been hiding from the law for 15 years.
Hsu's lawyer says he is no fugitive.
If this is true, I guess Clinton will have to return the money donated to her by Hsu. If not, the LA Times will have to be held responsible.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-hsu29aug29,0,2313285.story

[Clintonista2]

1. What say you now, Hillary?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888356/posts

I'm just sooooo glad the level of anti-clinton hatred on DU has reached freeper status :scared:

Check Mediamatters before you start spewing right wing propaganda k?
http://mediamatters.org/items/200708280016?f=h_latest

[flpoljunkie]

2. Will be interesting to see if Hillary will be attending this 9/30 CA fundraiser co-hosted by Hsu

Link to the invitation:

http://blogs.trb.com/news/politics/blog/Clinton%20invitation.pdf

Fundrace2008 indicates that Norman Hsu has given $4,400 to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, so he's pretty much maxed out. Okay, he can donate another $200 for the general election account.

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=HSU&fname=NORMAN&search=Search

[flpoljunkie]

7. Actually, it is Hsu, the fugitive, who will be the most likely no-show at his CA fundraiser for Hil

Hsu's legal troubles date back almost 20 years.

Beginning in 1989, court records show, he began raising what added up to more than $1 million from investors, purportedly to buy latex gloves; investors were told Hsu had a contract to resell the gloves to a major American business.

In 1991, Hsu was charged with grand theft. Prosecutors said there were no latex gloves and no contract to sell them.

Hsu pleaded no contest to one grand theft charge and agreed to accept up to three years in prison. He disappeared, Smetana said, after failing to show up for a sentencing hearing. Bench warrants were issued for his arrest but he was never found, Smetana said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-hsu29aug29,0,2313285.story?page=2&coll=la-home-center

(Hsu's story is very strange, indeed, and a walking advertisement for public financing for presidential elections!)

[Tellurian]

8. Too bad the attempted stink backfired.. Try again- flopojunkie

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-hsu29aug29,0,2313285.story

[flpoljunkie]

10. How could Paw family of modest means who recently refinanced their house for $270,000 afford to give

so much money to Democrats. This does not smell right, and, if it is true, it really stinks on many levels.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118826947048110677.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave. 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.

That total ranks the house with residences in Greenwich, Conn., and Manhattan's Upper East Side among the top addresses to donate to the Democratic presidential front-runner over the past two years, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal of donations listed with the Federal Election Commission.

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.

The Paws' political donations closely track donations made by Norman Hsu, a wealthy New York businessman in the apparel industry who once listed the Paw home as his address, according to public records. Mr. Hsu is one of the top fund-raisers for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign. He has hosted or co-hosted some of her most prominent money-raising events.

[flpoljunkie]

12. You might want to check Beaverhausen's post below, tellurian.

[William769]

3. You know when they have to go to free republic, they are desperate.

But then again they have been desperate for months! Now they are getting down right suicidal.

[Alamom]

4. Hsu has donated to Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, Jay

Rockefellar,Patrick Kennedy,Dianne Feinstein,,Mary Landrieu, Tom Harkin, Jack Reed, Al Franken,
Tom Vilsack, Mark Pryor, Mark Udall, many other politicians all over the country & political organizations. :eyes:


http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=NY&last=Hsu&first=Norman&city=&zip=&xst=&next=0

[flpoljunkie]

6. Hsu is quite the Dem donor. Looks like he took McAuliffe's advice for the '08 race to heart--

"You are either with us, or against us."

http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=name&lname=HSU&fname=NORMAN&search=Search

[AZBlue]

18. But, but, but....

Anti Hillary, Inc. had nothing else to post today, doncha know?

B.S. indeed!

[monmouth]

5. Rush's replacement, Mark somebody, did a half hour on this.

Supposedly the guy is a felon with warrant(s) and is wanted for fraud...

[Beaverhausen]

9. thread in LBN- she's going to give the money to charity

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2971405

[flpoljunkie]

11. Very interesting. Thanks!

Clinton to give away fundraiser's cash

By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer 2 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will give to charity the $23,000 in donations that she has received from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge.

The decision came Wednesday as other Democrats began distancing themselves from Norman Hsu, whose legal encounters and links to other Democratic donors have drawn public scrutiny in the past two days.

Al Franken, a Senate candidate in Minnesota, Rep. Michael Honda of California and Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania said they would divest their campaigns of Hsu's donations.

Hsu is a fundraiser for Clinton and is described as a devoted fan of the presidential candidate and New York senator. He planned to co-host a money event for Clinton on Sept. 30. In a statement Wednesday, Hsu said he believed he had resolved his legal issues and was unaware that he faced a warrant.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070829/ap_on_el_pr/democratic_fundraiser

[illinoisprogressive]

13. no backfiring. there is still investigations into this re: hilllarys role.

[Tellurian]

14. Not really...

[William769]

16. And who's doing the investigation?

And what have they uncovered so far? Since you seem to be so all knowing, we all would like to know.

[illinoisprogressive]

15. From what I have heard and read, it would seem he is a fugitive.

[flpoljunkie]

17. With bail of $2 million, if arrested.

http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8RB03200.html

In 1991, Hsu pleaded no contest to a single felony count of grand theft but failed to appear in court for sentencing, according to Ronald Smetana, a California deputy attorney general who prosecuted the case.

Smetana said there is an outstanding warrant for Hsu's arrest. A clerk at the San Mateo County courthouse where Hsu was prosecuted said the warrant was issued in 1992 and orders were for $2 million bail for Hsu if he were arrested.

Smetana said Hsu collected about $1 million from investors by falsely claiming he had a contract to import latex gloves. Smetana said he planned to ask a judge to sentence Hsu to prison.

"We would obviously like Mr. Hsu to return and face justice," said Smetana, who said he had assumed Hsu, a Hong Kong native, had fled the country.