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Additional info from today’s WSJ :
http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB119213585603056422.html

Officials Detail Contents Of Hsu’s Seized Mementos
by IANTHE JEANNE DUGAN
October 12, 2007; Page A7

Among the items in Norman Hsu’s personal collection of Clinton memorabilia: CDs of presentations made by Hillary Clinton as well as an envelope of thank-you notes from the Democratic presidential front-runner.

Those items were on a list released yesterday of things seized from Mr. Hsu’s Manhattan apartment by federal agents, who last month charged the businessman with fraud.

The contents were revealed the day after the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said it found a saxophone signed by Bill Clinton and about 200 bottles of fine wine and Champagne. The Red Cross said Mr. Hsu purchased the instrument at auction for $26,000 at an event for the group attended by both men in October 2005.

The prosecutors’ inventory of seized items provided a glimpse into Mr. Hsu’s life. In September, the U.S. attorney in New York charged Mr. Hsu with running a Ponzi scheme that allegedly cost his investors $60 million. He was also charged with pressuring investors to donate to candidates, and reimbursing some, which is illegal. Mr. Hsu has said he didn’t reimburse people for donations. He is being held in California on a separate, 16-year-old grand-theft charge also involving an alleged Ponzi scheme.

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The new list includes a wide range of correspondence with politicians Mr. Hsu supported. On a bookshelf, agents found a letter from Rep. Doris Matsui, a Democrat from California. In June, Mr. Hsu hosted a luncheon for her in New York.

Authorities also discovered envelopes full of letters from politicians, sorted by year. One envelope was devoted to letters from New York Sen. Clinton, thanking Mr. Hsu, who was one of her biggest fund-raisers.

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Mr. Hsu had several CDs and a video of Mrs. Clinton giving presentations in New York. Another CD was entitled “Merle Haggard Hillary.” Mr. Haggard wrote a song for Sen. Clinton earlier this year, entitled, “Let’s Put a Woman in Charge.”

A folder in the apartment from Per Se restaurant in New York contained a thank-you letter to Mr. Hsu for hosting a dinner at the restaurant and a bill for the event. As previously reported by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Hsu hosted a 10-course dinner party at the restaurant overlooking Central Park for Pennsylvania Gov. Edward Rendell in April 2006.

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Also discovered: an AT&T calling card in the name of Winkle Paw. Mr. Paw has listed Mr. Hsu’s businesses as his employer on federal election records. He and other members of the Paw family, who live in a house near San Francisco Airport, made political donations often on the same days and in the same amounts as Mr. Hsu, who once listed the Paws’ address as his.