Another Chinese-American straw donor probe Plus: Charting Hsu & Associates nationwide (state and federal) campaign contributions
Same m.o., different Clinton campaign. The WSJ reports in an online article dated Sept. 1 that the Justice Department is now looking into Norman Hsu’s possible straw campaign donations as a result of the paper’s investigation published earlier this week:
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating possible campaign-finance violations by top Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, according to people familiar with the probe.
Ready for the complaints from Asian-American groups about being “profiled?” They’re coming, I promise you.
What say you, Hillary? Nothing:
Mrs. Clinton’s campaign declined to comment yesterday. The New York senator, along with other Democrats, has said she would turn over donations received from Mr. Hsu to charity.
But Mr. Hsu’s legal woes are a political blow to the many prominent Democrats who accepted his funds, in particular Mrs. Clinton. While there is no sign any of them were aware of Mr. Hsu’s actions and prior record, they could be embarrassed by the probe of his fundraising.
The probe will chase the Paw family’s fingerprints, along with other Hsu associates:
The investigation began following a Wall Street Journal story this past week about donations by these people — mail carrier William Paw and the five other members of his family who list their Daly City address as 41 Shelbourne Ave., a small house near San Francisco airport.
Mr. Hsu has denied reimbursing any associates for their donations, which would be a felony, or other wrongdoing in his fund-raising activities. “I’ve asked friends and colleagues of mine to give money out of their own pockets, and sometimes they have agreed,” he said in an email to the Journal this past week. A member of the Paw family also has said the family’s donations were their own.
The amounts and dates of the Paws’ donations were similar to those of Mr. Hsu, who once listed the Paw’s address as his own. The Paws, Mr. Hsu and other associates collectively donated nearly $1 million to an array of candidates the past few years, including the presidential campaign of Mrs. Clinton.
Flip Pidot has done yeomen’s work compiling summary results of a nationwide scour of all state and federal campaign finance disclosure documents published since the 2004 cycle for donations from Hsu and his associates identified by the WSJ. He’s found “65 Democratic candidates (even one Republican(!), though he lost…) running for everything from State Assembly to President. You’ll find them running in 32 states. You’ll find 9 Democratic campaign committees and 10 Democratic state parties in the mix…With the state-level data added, we’ve now shot past $1.3 million. The municipal data looks to drive the total significantly higher. So stay tuned.”
Here’s one of Flip’s graphs charting top recipients of Hsu funny money:
Check Flip’s blog to see which state and federal recipients in your neck of the woods might have received Hsu funds.
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Wow, Mrs. Clinton never learns.
This is a twopeat from my post over at Townhall but I think it’s apropos here too.
Why Liberals Always Protect Perverts?
By Kevin McCullough
A big, BIG tent.
Professional courtesy.
It’s also why perverts always vote for liberals.
Democrats have cultivated the ‘crook’ vote.
A fairly sizable segment of the American populace have learned to enjoy and expect the largess of ’slightly’ bad behavior and the sneaky pleasure of getting away with it, this is the (yea we bad) glorifying grassroots foundation that helps spawn much worse criminal behavior.
From parking ticket absconders to illegal aliens to outright felons (what’s a little identity theft?), the liberal tent is all welcoming.
Whether it’s rights for the dependent indolent or if the term serial killer is what appears before your prefix (Sir, Ms. Mr. Mrs.) or any amount or level of illegal or immoral behavior in between, don’t worry, you have the liberal accredited right to vote, for them; vote for a sweet soft criminal activity loving Democrat, hey, it’s all good, if not immoral.
Don’t sweat the naughty details, just vote, liberal, crooks.
Michele,
Follow the money. The ChiComs are brilliant at laundering the money they use to pull the strings on our politicians. Hsu isn’t just some low-level thug. He’s a conduit. Follow the trail.
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Same ol’, same ol’…
planetgeo
I agree … I posted on the initial story that we need to know what the “charities” are that this money is supposedly being donated to now …
At the time I said:
I haven’t changed my mind … the Clinton devious mentality is rampant when there is money involved … they will find a way to get that money back in the coffers if we don’t stop them …
Maintream Media Preportions:
Story Importance -
* Old-ish Senator may or may not have been trying to get it on in a men’s room stall: 97%
* Democratic Presidential frontrunner involved in another in a long line of illegal donation situations including potential felonious activity from people with offshore interests: 3%
Can you imagine what the coverage would be if the scandal had involved Romney or Guiliani? Of course you can. Gross and awful.
Not to be fair to the liberal media (lol) or anything, MrCC, but on the Craig story account Republicans insist on making it an end-of-the-world thing as just much as the MSM.
Also, in general, just about any sex story is more “juicy” than a money story. Or , in this case, it’s more like a “tapdancing, but no sex story”, heh.
Democrats, especially the Clintons, getting money from murky Chinese donors isn’t a shocker. Hasn’t it been the status quo since at least the first Clinton term?
After this Holiday weekend I expect the “dirty laundry”and “mud slinging” for all the candidates to start piling up, this is just the tip of the sword. Dress accordingly you dont want to get any of it on you. ew.
Come September 6th – 5 more days – this story will wisp into thin air, thanks to Fred Thompson.
The MSM will be all over his entry and they will breathe a sigh of relief that they don’t have to dig further into this story.
( Although it will be interesting if, even after his resignation, how long they hang on to Larry Craig )
Here are some additional reminders of the ChiCom owned Clinton Family and the damage they have caused.
http://thecitytroll.blogspot.com/2007/09/reminder-of-who-clintons-are-owned-by.html
Oh, surprise surprise, Fast Eddie Rendell was getting funny money.
Not very funny on Letterman. Of course, that doesn’t disqualify her as a legitimate candidate. What disqualifies her is her history of financial corruption, her socialist agenda, a very average intellect, pathetic fawning for votes from the poor, basing her positions on what she thinks will get her elected, staying in a sham marriage for political gain, .. I could go on, but you get the point.
The whole party is a bunch of cheating, power hungry imbeciles. I hope they go down and go down hard.
The only way a Democrat wins is by cheating. It’s amazing how many districts won during their elections exceed the population of registered voters. Now they are being openly funded by overseas interests and will sell our security out in a second to stay in power.
What better way to establish a Chi-Com connection,in our White House?Remember Slick Willy’s buddy from red china,shipped a load of full auto AK47 assault rifles,to Chicago.The bullbous nosed one kept all Federal agensies tied up,but he forgot about the U.S.Cutoms Service.They caught the container,detined for Gangbangers,in the Chicago area.
Exactly…it’s quite likely the ChiComs are ultimately behind all of this. Papa needs some new missile secrets!
From that same WSJ article linked above:
In 1990, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a group of Chinatown gang leaders had been arrested for kidnapping Mr. Hsu. The article said the alleged kidnappers were stopped after speeding through a red light, and Mr. Hsu took the opportunity to tell police he was being kidnapped. The article said he owned a restaurant and clothing businesses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Chinatown gang “leaders?” Isn’t that a little strange for gang leaders to be doing their own dirty work such as killing or kidnapping? And by gang leaders, does that mean they were from separate gangs? What on earth would leaders from different gangs be cooperating in the kidnapping of a supposedly nobody businessman?
Coud Hsu have been on of those “gang leaders” rather than a victim of a kidnapping?
More at my blog.
#17 rick
AJ scratching head… ya think
no controlling legal authority.
they’re all crooks by now.
where’s the law enforcement when we need it?
America appears to be in a dead heat tie with ancient Rome for senate terpitude..,
It was already out there even before you posted this Michelle
Last time we’ll see Hill in a chair… that’s one wide beam boat.