Posted on 09/08/2007 8:40:29 PM PDT by neverdem
Norman Hsu, the Democratic fund-raiser whose 15-year fugitive odyssey began and ended with skipped court dates and cut a trail of fraud, tainted donations and blindsided candidates, seemed to be at the end of his rope yesterday, hospitalized under guard in Colorado after his latest vanishing act failed.
Mr. Hsu, a 56-year-old Hong Kong businessman born Yung Yuen Hsu, who raised large sums for presidential races and many major political figures, who reveled in circles of power and even became a university trustee (with a scholarship in his name) — all while on the run from a three-year prison term — was at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction after being taken ill off a Denver-bound Amtrak train on Thursday, federal officials said.
In federal custody and under guard by Mesa County sheriff’s deputies, Mr. Hsu, who was listed in fair condition with an unspecified ailment, faced new charges and extradition to California. He was to have appeared in court there on Wednesday to surrender his passport and seek a reduction in $2 million bail he posted last week when he turned himself in for running away from a 1992 felony sentencing.
After he failed to show up at Wednesday’s hearing, a new warrant was issued. Federal officials said Mr. Hsu had arrived at Oakland International Airport on a charter flight from New York. But instead of heading for the hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court in Redwood City, south of San Francisco, he boarded an eastbound Amtrak train in Emeryville, near Oakland, the officials said.
He had his passport and a berth in a sleeper, but his trip was cut short when he fell ill. Amtrak notified the authorities, an ambulance met the train at Grand Junction and federal agents arrested Mr. Hsu at the hospital, ending what...
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Putnam problem - clinton solution
Typical New York Slimes, glossing over his crimes like they were juvenile discrepancies or something.
Why, the media or anyone else never stopped Stalin killing 20 million people.
Clinton never stopped 600,000 killed in his watch between the Hutu’s and Tutu’s.
600,000 killed in two weeks and no guns, all knives and swords, do the math, how many killed in how many minutes that the UN and the world did nothing.
“blindsided candidates”
Repeat after the NY Slimes:
NOT. HILLARY’S. FAULT.
Never is. Probably Bush’s.
Poor sap, I’m guessing he’s wishing big-time that he’d stuck to the small-time stuff and stayed away from Dems.
The good news for Mr. Hsu (SAC) is that the “Klintonista EMERGENCY MEDICAL TEAM” are enroute to assist him “anyway possible”
Sounds like this guy is being given opportunities to escape the country. Wonder why? /s
After the first sentence, his political activities and the candidates he supported seem to have become generic.
“Mr. Hsu’s lawyer in San Francisco, James J. Brosnahan, said that “in the last 36 hours, a great many friends of Norman Hsu have expressed concern about his mental health and well-being.”
Phone records anyone??
This story has long legs. If would be kind of fun, if a “Hsu Pool” was set up by a freeper here to take bets on how long Hsu will be around. I’d bet $50 on that pool. Maybe even a $100, just for the fun of it. It could be a novel fundraiser by someone.
Extremely Extreme Extremist, you missed the point. This story has been on the front page news for the NY Times for at least two days. I posted the first one that I caught on the front page. I'm sure I can retrieve it, if you want.
Shadowy Money Trail of a Fugitive Fund-Raiser
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I don't know what is motivating these stories, but they don't help the neoCOMs. That's what I call the new left, not progessive, my butt.
However much I would be inclined to participate in such a pool. It is inherently in poor taste. He might be a scumbag money launderer but I don’t wish him dead...yet.
Ricin? Radiation poisoning?
Can’t be like the old days where a plane crashes, or you are found in Ft. Marcy Park after “committing suicide”.
Has he been tested for polonium 210 or other poisons?
ping
I can’t answer that. It seems to appear that he will die an unnatural untimely death at this point. Big surprise.
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