Posted on 09/12/2007 11:07:00 AM PDT by jdm
The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party received warnings that Hsu had a bad record with money as early as June of this year, several sources report, but did nothing to distance themselves from the Hillraiser. Jack Cassidy, a California businessman who recognized Hsu as a shady character, sent messages imploring Democrats to avoid Hsu, to no avail:
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. ...
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.
It did all it could? That couldn't have been much more than a Google run. The warrant in California had been in effect for almost 15 years by that point, and his record of bankruptcies was easily discovered by the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times, both of which have done good reporting on this story. In fact, before his exposure, Hillary's western finance director defended Hsu's non-existent honor in an e-mail to party members, calling him "COMPLETELY legit."
Samantha Wolf no longer works for the campaign. They won't discuss her departure. I think we can conclude why she no longer handles Hillary's finances.
The New York Times reports that Hillary had specifically worried about this kind of scandal:
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.
Riiiiiiiiiight. Either this is post-Hsu spin, or Hillary has competence issues that rival Alberto Gonzales. Her campaign wants to argue that Hillary made donor vetting Job One, and yet they managed to be duped by a man who had an outstanding warrant for his arrest and whose business contacts all turned out to be false fronts? To believe that Hillary's team put extra effort into vetting their fundraisers, we would have to believe that all of this extra effort failed -- over a three-year period -- to turn up the information that the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times managed to discover within days. Even the NY Times proved Hsu's businesses were phonies in less than a week.
Hillary has been exposed as exactly what the NYT describes -- greedy and ethically challenged. She's not the only Democrat on that list, either, and New Yorkers have even more reasons to suspect that their current Governor and current Attorney General have the same ethical and/or competence deficiencies as their junior Senator.
UPDATE: Stacy McCain interviews Flip Pidot at the Washington Times -- which featured The Q on yesterday's front page. Be sure to read it all.
Why Didn’t Clinton Team Heed Hsu Warnings?
The answer is obvious.
Ms. Clinton has so many Hsus in her closet.
In their minds; they are above the law and everyone they deal with regards to campaign money is a crook, just like them.
If this was Republican; we wouldn’t be discussing anything now because their butt would already be in jail which is really where the Clintons should be.
850,000 reason.
You're exactly right.
Just explain to me how this guy got out on bail now, after failing to show up for his jail sentence a decade ago.
Was he supposed to be “Fostered”?
The real crooks are at the top - Hillary, Harold Ickes, Howard Wolfson, and Terry “Global Crossing” McAuliffe. They give the flunkies huge fundraising goals and they get fired if they don’t meet them. How much vetting do you think they are really doing when they face losing their campaign jobs and their ultimate bigtime Clinton Administration jobs?
Check this out! Blog posting by Jack Cassidy!
August 29th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Check out Narman Hsu’s connection to Perfect Investments LLC.
He may be running a Ponzi Scheme right now in OC.
Jack Cassidy Says:
August 29th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
The Democratic Committee in Orange County
Samantha Wolf at the Clinton Campaign and
Senator Mark Pryor, were all notified of Norman’s activities in June.
Norman is most likely running a bridge loan Ponzi scheme in California.
The OC DA and the Police Department of The City of Orange brush this off.
“The fraud guys do not work on Friday”.
This scandal is the 800 lb. gorilla in the room and I think the legs are going to grow on this one. It is curious that it is reported Hsu was taken to the surgical wing in the hospital. Maybe someone is truying to elimate the popcorn trails.
Heads Up to my #6. Hsu’s in your back yard.
Same reason teens don't heed warnings of STDs and pregnancy - - raw lust. In her case it was the lust for political money and the power it brings.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Because they hoped they would get away with it. Same way they got away with taking illegal donations in the past. They may have to give it back when they are exposed, but no one on the hillary team, except possibly the donors, is going to jail.
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People. The Clinton campaign checked Hsu against the FBI files on hand and he wasn’t in there. So he was vetted and came out good.
I nominate that as the post of the day.
Good one, D.O.
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I believe it was John Huang that worked in a resturant in Little Rock. The Clintons had known him for twenty years before they came to Wasington, D.C. When trouble came up concerning Huang, they claimed they hadn’t known him before he was hired on at the White House, and even then very little...
One of the players is different, but the game is still the same.
Thanks. I appreciate it.
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