Posted on 10/15/2007 8:57:36 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
Hillary's 3rd Quarter Refunds: Large, But Lacking Hoo boy, this is one meaty filing. Senator previously Clinton vowed to return $850,000 in Hsu-connected contributions to some 260 donors. Her 3rd quarter filing shows refunds to no fewer than 487 individuals for a total of $1.24 million.
This will take a little time to chew through, but we now have our arms around the 200+ missing Hsu donors and the several hundred thousand missing dollars. It's just a matter of eliminating the unrelated refunds (accidental overpayments and the like) before we'll have a list of the previously unknown Hsu-connected donors to trace back through prior periods for both Clinton and other Hsu-favored candidates to bring us up to the new grand total.
But even before we do the deep dive, some problems bubble feverishly to the surface.
Consider this a rough cut through the data, subject to revision, but I'm showing more than $125,000 in thus far unrefunded contributions made by previously identified suspected Hsu straw donors (most of whom the Clinton campaign seems to acknowledge as Hsu-connected donors by virtue of the partial refunds they issued during the quarter).
18 of the 26 Hsu-connected donors listed below receieved only partial refunds for their aggregate Clinton contributions. Just 2 of them received full refunds. 6 others (including 2 members of the Paw family) received no refunds.
It's important to note that this data does not include any refunds that HillPAC may have separately issued. Once that data is available, I'll update accordingly. As currently illustrated, the Clinton campaign appears to have refunded just over 40% of the previously identified Hsu-connected donations.
It's also important to remember that any of these Clinton donors who were reimbursed by Norman Hsu for such donations (allegedly with funds Hsu swindled out of unwitting investors) are not the legitimate owners of those funds. Hundreds of investors in New York and California who allege Hsu bilked them out of more than $60 million are the primary aggrieved parties to any such swindling and Hillary's refunds, however partial, are only the first step in returning these funds to their rightful owners.
We can only hope that federal authorities are rapidly chasing down each refund recipient to determine the appropriate dispotition of the involved funds, per the outcome of the ongoing civil and criminal complaints pending against Hsu.
Posted by Flip on October 15, 2007 | Permalink
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It’s a beginning. Next quarter will tell the tale of whether she defaulted.
Not unlike Hillary's hinder parts.
The judge in the Hsu case should seize those funds and hold them. Then they can be returned to the original investors. Hillary would like to donate these funds to a charity of her liking. No doubt so she can take credit for helping the little people.
A New York Post reporter told me she thought some of the funds were requested to be “held” by attorney’s for the various Hsu scam victims. I wonder if that is so and if that info is in this report?
Principal among them being lack of interest from the MSM and a plurality of voters.
yup ,.. or , as my Grandma used to say , ..
“the last part that goes over the fence”
{{ Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton ,.. Prevaricator Of The United States }}
Hillary’s 3rd Quarter Refunds: Large, But Lacking...
have yet to see this played up on the lib/dem alphabet network...that keep harping how they are fair and balanced!!!
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