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Clinton vows 'vigilance' in accepting funds (yeah right)
The Boston Globe ^ | 8/31/2007 | Marcella Bombardieri,

Posted on 08/31/2007 8:09:43 PM PDT by ConservativeofColor

Democrats donate money raised by fugitive from law

As Democratic politicians raced to shed contributions from a wealthy fund-raiser who turned out to be a fugitive from the law, Hillary Clinton said yesterday that her presidential campaign will be more careful about scrutinizing donors.

Norman Hsu, who has donated large sums to numerous Democrats including Clinton and Barack Obama, has been wanted by California authorities for 15 years in connection with a fraud case.

"We have a vetting process," Clinton said in a telephone interview. "It didn't work on this one instance, apparently, for any of us. There were many, many people receiving his contributions, but nobody knew there was an issue."

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: crookeddemocrats; donors; fundraising; hillary; hsu; normanhsu
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To: ConservativeofColor
"We have a vetting process," Clinton said in a telephone interview. "It didn't work on this one instance, apparently, for any of us. There were many, many people receiving his contributions, but nobody knew there was an issue."

We watched this woman's husband plead incompetence to every major fraud and deception he foisted on the American people for eight long years. This rotten apple didn't fall far from the tree.

21 posted on 08/31/2007 8:39:44 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Egad.)
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To: BARLF
"There were many, many people democrats receiving his contributions, but nobody knew there was an issue."

This from the smartest woman in the world

22 posted on 08/31/2007 8:41:31 PM PDT by Mr_Moonlight
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To: Colonel_Flagg
We watched this woman's husband plead incompetence to every major fraud and deception he foisted on the American people for eight long years.

Yet the country quite possibly could elect this feckless wretch as our next president.


23 posted on 08/31/2007 8:43:32 PM PDT by ConservativeofColor
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To: ConservativeofColor

Lying as usual.


24 posted on 08/31/2007 8:46:44 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: ConservativeofColor
Clinton: There were many, many people receiving his contributions, but nobody knew there was an issue.

What total BS.
You did it because you thought you could get away with it.
What total BS.

25 posted on 08/31/2007 8:50:39 PM PDT by upchuck (Today there are 10,000 more illegal aliens in yer country than there were yesterday. 10,000! THINK!)
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