All points bulletin: Where in the world is Norman Hsu? Part II; New warrant issued for his arrest…lost passport; Fled to Hong Kong?; Update: Clueless lawyers say maybe Hsu made a “mistake;” Update: Patrick Kennedy flip-flops;Update: Sing-along to “Runaround Hsu;” Update: Hsu’s Democrat cronies are “baffled”
Attention, Democrats: Have you seen this man?
Update 9/6 12:13am Eastern. Last one for the night: Singing the Hong Kong Blues.
Update 11:15pm Eastern. Newsbusters observes the MSM’s incuriousity about the source of Hsu’s funds. So does Clayton Cramer, who chuckles at the Hsu puns, but has serious questions:
It’s all very funny–but the disturbing questions about where the money is really coming from (Red China, maybe, like apparently happened in 1996 for the Clinton/Gore campaign) are simply being ignored by the mainstream media. Admittedly, there’s no sex involved, so I guess that it doesn’t really matter, does it? Or is it just that the corruption involves Democratic politicians–and therefore it meets party standards for ethics?
Update 10:11pm Eastern. Love the NYTimes headline…“Clinton Donor Appears to Be a Fugitive Again.” Well, lookee here. The NYTimes changes its stupid headline.
And knock Hsu’s friends over with a straw:
Yesterday, the Clinton campaign called for Mr. Hsu to turn himself in.
“We believe that Mr. Hsu, like any individual who has obligations before the court, should be meeting them, and he should do so now,” the Clinton campaign said in a statement.
Even those who had initially defended Mr. Hsu when his legal problems became public were baffled. Bob Kerrey, the former Nebraska senator who is president of the New School in New York City, where Mr. Hsu was a trustee, could not explain Mr. Hsu’s behavior.
“I don’t know what is going on in his mind,” Mr. Kerrey said. “I thought that I knew him, but obviously I didn’t.”
Update 8pm Eastern. Our commenter jrlingreenbay gets the parody lyrics rewrite award of the day for “Runaround Hsu:”
Here’s my story, sad but true
It’s about a guy that I once knew
He [took my] money, then ran around
Giving money to every dem in townAh, I should have known it from the very start
This guy will leave me with a broken heart
Now listen people what I’m telling you
A-keep away from-a Runaround Hsu
I miss his cash and the smile on his face
The touch of his hand and this guy’s warm embrace
So if you don’t wanna cry like I do
A-keep away from-a Runaround Hsu
Ah, he likes to travel around
He’ll support you but then he’ll skip town
Now people let me put you wise
Hsu has his lawyers tell his lies
Here’s the moral and the story from the guy who knows
I fell in love and my coffers still grow
Ask any fool that he ever knew, they’ll say
Keep away from-a Runaround Hsu
Update 5:00pm Eastern. Patrick Kennedy was for keeping Hsu’s money before he was against it:
U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy changed his mind and will give to charity more than $6,000 in donations he got from Norman Hsu, a prominent Democratic donor who’s also a fugitive in California.
Kennedy announced Wednesday that he’s returning the money after Hsu failed to show up for a court date and a judge issued a new warrant for his arrest.
Update 3:20pm Eastern. Shells, shells, shells.
Update 2:25pm Eastern. Flip Pidot, whose investigative campaign finance work I spotlighted in my column today, asks the Dems the follow-up questions the MSM hasn’t asked:
Hey Rendell, Kennedy, you want to reconsider keeping that money now? And what about you, DSCC, DCCC, and the Democrat parties of 10 states, who took hundreds of thousands directly from Hsu and from his shady fundraising sources – are you ready to disgorge these funds yet?
The Examiner also cited Flip’s work.
Update 1:45pm Eastern. Snort: Hsu’s San Francisco attorney, Jim Brosnahan, said he did not know his client’s whereabouts. “It could be a mistake, somehow, on his part. It could be something else,” Brosnahan said as he left a Redwood City courtroom. “We don’t know.”
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How do you say “Punked” in Chinese? The Democrat bagman is missing again:
Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu failed to appear Wednesday for a bail hearing and a judge issued a new warrant for his arrest.
Hsu forfeits the $2 million bail he posted last week.
Hsu’s lawyer said he doesn’t know where his client is.
Hsu had been a fugitive in California for 15 years during which time he became a top donor to Democratic candidates, including presidential contenders Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
Jim Hoft snarks: Maybe those Chinese gang members kidnapped him again.
Andrew Malcom at the LATimes blog: “By not appearing, Hsu forfeits his request to cut his $2 million bond in half. Maybe he had a sudden fundraiser of his own to attend.”
Dan Riehl blogs on the buzz from investigators that Hsu has possibly fled to Hong Kong. Update: Allah notes that the Hong Kong speculation referred to the last time he fled.
More from FoxNews.com:
California businessman Norman Hsu, a former New York apparel executive and major contributor to Democratic candidates and causes, failed to appear for a bail reduction hearing Wednesday, leading to speculation that he again is a fugitive from the law, FOX News has learned.
Hsu’s attorneys say they do not know his whereabouts, and that their client did not surrender his passport.
A warrant was issued this morning for Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who failed to appear this morning for a bail hearing on a 15-year-old grand theft charge.
Superior Court Judge Robert Foiles ordered Hsu, a major fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, to be held without bail should he make an appearance. Last week, he was released after posting $2 million bail.
Hsu’s attorney James Brosnahan, explained that he had lost contact with Hsu and that the financier had failed to deliver his passport as promised.
“Mr. Hsu is not here and we don’t know where he is,” Brosnahan said outside court. “We expected him to be here.”
Brosnahan told Foiles that a legal assistant for his law firm went to Hsu’s New York City condominium last week and spent 90 minutes searching for Hsu’s passport.
Chumps.
What will the Asian-American apologists say now?
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YAWN…
Sleeping with the fish?
Or perhaps he had an “accident” or “commited suicide”.
and he didn’t turn over his passport last friday…
This guy skates how many years ago after agreeing to a plea-deal to serve prison time…
He surrenders last week – and instead of going to prison – he’s released on bail and not asked to surrender his passport?
#1 – The judge is an idiot
#2 – The judge is an idiot
Can’t find the guy fo 15 years and then when he turns himself in they didn’t take his passport?
How in the world could a prosecutor not consider his 15 year disappearance as proof of his being a flight risk?
Who was his lawyer? Hillary’s brother?
Did those gang leaders kidnap him again?
PS I called it!
jrlingreenbay
I’ll agree the judge leaves a lot to be desired … but the prosecutor would have had to ask the judge to have Hsu surrender his passport … I don’t think the judge can’t rule on that unless the prosecution asks him to do it … maybe someone with more legal knowledge than I could enlighten us on that
I think that leaves out the Judge and prosecutor for sure.
Luckily no one gets across our borders without us knowing about it – wait, never mind.
ROFL, What I was shocked for was why they let him go in the first place? He was sentenced to 3 years cuff him take him to jail end of story….
HHHHMMMMM! you would have thought the idiot judge or prosecutor would have asked him to turn over his passport…..
Don’t mess with a Clinton…
/just saying
Maybe he was knocked over with a straw.
Aw shucks. Now how am I supposed to give all that money back? Bill,, oh Bill, got any ideas? I was just ready to write a check too…oh well guess we’ll have to keep it until he comes back…in 15 years
The other day, Michelle asked us for input on any of our politicians who were recipients of Hsu’s tentacle arms of donations.
Well, it so happens that our Wisconsin Governor, Jim Doyle, was one of those recipients ( although listed as only taking $2000.00, I believe ).
From the June 2007 “Compass” publication from the Council of Great Lakes Governors:
Makes you wanna peek a little more into that cupboard, doesn’t it?
Also, I saw a report that Rep. Kennedy, ( D ), is not returning any of the donations given to him because there was no proof that the donations were illegal….
So, accepting donations that are linked to a fugitive aren’t questionable?
Oh, that’s right, we’re talking about the Dems.
Opening that cupboard you better have on a crash helmet, I believe it is full full full.
Careful there, you’re getting Senator Craig excited.
Isn’t a passport scanned on the way out of the US? We can’t possible query a national database for his passport number and find out if he did in fact leave the country? We can send a man to the moon but we can’t tell if someone’s left the country. Wow, we suck.
Who thinks we will ever see this person again?
Also found a reference to a ‘Paul Hsu’, ginsing grower here in Wisconsin, referenced by Doyle in March of 2004 in a Press Release during his trip to China:
Now, I know there’s probably many ‘Hsu’s’ but the question still remains: any relation????????????
Ah, the loud media voices yammering about Senator Craig’s bad immitation of Pee Wee Hermann, but where is the media outrage? Where is the cover-to-cover news? Where are the leading stories on the nightly news?
We have seen the enemy, and it’s the mainstream media.
Answer: The Devil
LC -
How many times has Hsu left and re-entered the country over the past 15 years? Was his passport flagged? Was he stopped as a fugitive?
We can’t even control who comes IN the country, let alone who is leaving…
Somebody ask Geraldo whether this guys criminal status should matter….
If anybody needs to post $2 million bail s/he shouldn’t be let out of sight in the first place.
This guy was on the run for, what, 16 years?
From Gateway Pundit:
They say they serched 90 minutes for his passport, 10 bucks says they didn’t check Hsu’s pockets.
Yup. He made the mistake of working for the Clintons and then getting caught.
I wonder if that 2 million dollar check has cleared another 10 says it wont.
hmmmm … reminds me of an old song …
remember “Runaround Hsu”
Runaround Hsu
by Dion
Here’s my story, sad but true
It’s about a guy that I once knew
He me money, then ran around
Giving money to every dem in town
Ah, I should have known it from the very start
This guy will leave me with a broken heart
Now listen people what I’m telling you
A-keep away from-a Runaround Hsu
I miss his cash and the smile on his face
The touch of his hand and this guy’s warm embrace
So if you don’t wanna cry like I do
A-keep away from-a Runaround Hsu
Ah, he likes to travel around
He’ll support you but then he’ll skip town
Now people let me put you wise
Hsu has his lawyers tell his lies
Here’s the moral and the story from the guy who knows
I fell in love and my coffers still grow
Ask any fool that he ever knew, they’ll say
Keep away from-a Runaround Hsu
jrlingreenbay
LOL … I knew someone would respond to that one …
Had to do it – and after all that – a damn typo in the third line…
Should read, ‘He gave me money, then ran around’
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
jrlingreenbay
I had properly guessed the missing word …
but the whole disappearing act for the second time just immediately brought that old song to mind …
nicely done …
Looks like he just gave our Court system another 1 finger Hsu’lute.
Thanks jrl, now that song will be in my head for days.
Yeah, short attention span Hsu forgot he had to go to jail again. I bet there are people happy that he isn’t available for say, questionable fundraising practices. At least Senator Craig, is fighting the system and Not eluding the Law. I am going to have to call “this scandle cycle” for the Repubilcans.
Desertlover – you’ve inspired me ….
“Wake up, Little ‘Hsu’-sie”
Wake up, little Hsu-sie, wake up
Wake up, little Hsu-sie, wake up
You’re busted and it’s time to sneak, wake up, little Hsu-sie, and weep
The jig is up, it’s four o’clock, and you’re in trouble deep
Wake up little Hsu-sie
Wake up little Hsu-sie, well
Whatta we gonna tell your mama
Whatta we gonna tell your pa
Whatta we gonna tell our friends when they say “ooh-la-la”
Wake up little Hsu-sie
Wake up little Hsu-sie, well
I told your judge that you’d be in by ten
Well Hsu-sie baby looks like you skipped again
Wake up little Hsu-sie
Wake up little Hsu-sie, we gotta go home
Wake up, little Hsu-sie, wake up
Wake up, little Hsu-sie, wake up
The whole plan wasn’t so hot, it didn’t have much of a plot
Last week you got booked, your goose is cooked, your reputation is shot
Wake up little Hsu-sie
Wake up little Hsu-sie, well
Whatta we gonna tell your mama
Whatta we gonna tell your pa
Whatta we gonna tell our friends when they say “ooh-la-la”
Wake up little Hsu-sie
Wake up little Hsu-sie
Wake up little Hsu-sie
You start singing Peggy Hsu and I’m covering my ears.
He could make his life so much easier if he would just cut off that hair helmet.
I looked at those lyrics – too damn hard to make something good out of ‘em.
LOL
But I hear NBC is re-making a sitcom with him as the star…
They’re calling it:
“Suddenly Hsusan – is nowhere to be found”
Sorry, I was strongly compelled to say that.
And so, another democrat gets away with yet another crime.
It saddens me to think that the masses are so uneducated on this matter, that they’ll either vote democrat because they’re unaware, or will not care enough and pretend this level of corruption isn’t enough to find better candidates to vote for.
Either way… America loses. Good job, Democrats.
jrl you need to do one for Larry the Tappin Senator. by Elvis “you’re caught in a Tap”
aj and jrl … I fear I have unleashed a monster … lol
I’m still curious if that 2 million $$ check is good they didnt have time to verify on friday before labor day and if they check it now that it’s been forfieted I bet dimes to donuts it bounces like there isnt any gravity on earth.
Even better, Aj…….
It’s my potty and I’ll tap if I want to
Tap if I want to, Tap if I want to
You would Tap too if it happened to you
Nobody knows where my ethics have gone
But my logic left the same time
Why was he holding a badge in his hand
When he’s supposed to be holding mine?
It’s my potty and I’ll tap if I want to
Tap if I want to, Tap if I want to
You would Tap too if it happened to you
Then my record starts coming to light
Just leave me alone for a while
‘Til I win this impossible fight
I’ve got no reason to smile
It’s my potty and I’ll tap if I want to
Tap if I want to, Tap if I want to
You would Tap too if it happened to you
Officer Johnny just walked thru the door
He thinks I’m going to sing….
Oh what an unbelievable surprise
He identified my wedding ring
It’s my potty and I’ll tap if I want to
Tap if I want to, Tap if I want to
You would Tap too if it happened to you
have they checked under hillary’s skirt? naw.. not even bill wants to go there…
I maybe grasping at straws (the kind that blow Bill Clinton down), but find it interesting that this guy is gone.
Just sayin’, considering the damage his association has done for Hillary (not much, no doubt, in Dem circles).
The Clintons have a tendency to erase their past and those who could cause trouble.
Aj….. I don’t think they take checks for bail, unless it’s from a bondsman, or certified, do they?
Have you noticed that the small pic at the top of this post looks a lot like a Chinese Bill Maher?
Just saying.
All these phony addresses he’s given for his businesses – reminds me of the scene in the Blues Brothers when the Nazi’s pull up in front of Elwood Blues’ listed address – to find the Chicago Cubs’ Wrigley Field….
I’m loving this; and you guys should form a band. I’ll leave it up to you to name it, I don’t even want to go there.
Do ya feel safe now? I am sure if Chertoff wasn’t tied up testifying in front of congress this guys’ name would have been on a No-Fly list and couldn’t have left the country. IF he got out it makes you wonder what is coming in.
/heckuva job Brownie…..
Amazing isn’t it? My 80 year old grandmother has to remove her shoes when she goes through airport security, but this fleeing felon can go in and out of our country with no questions.
In fairness we don’t know if he has left the country, but if that does become the case it really points to the fact that the only one who can protect us is US.
I wonder who’s money that is? Who he scammed to get that much dough , in cash, for bond…thx Bill and Hillary, for establishing this crooks credibility.
.
Passport? Do you think he would use his own? I don’t…he’ll have a fake made up, probably has three or four for just this type of need.
All the mob type criminals would say “he don’t need no stinkin passport.”
One’s got to wonder if Hsu is somehow connected to Soros. I don’t see how a former clothing executive could come up with this kind of money. Especially when the majority of his companies appear to be fake.
Jim C
Two words – “Communist China”
I’m furious.
.
The straw whippings should be dramatic and painful by now, huh billy jeff?.axswipe!
.
I believe the clintons taught hsu everything he knows…how to be a criminal, how not to get caught, how to run and hide, etc….has anyone asked bill and shill where their buddy might be? ( not that they would tell the truth, heck, they almost never tell the whole truth.)
Disgusting, perverted circle of thieves. America should be disgusted with everyone involved or NEAR hsu.
“Ohhhhh…Hsu-sie Q”
“Ohhhhh…Hsu-sie Q”
“I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk, Hsusie q.”
“Well, say that youll be true, and never LEAVE me blue, Hsusie q.”
(CCR version…add your own lyrics you geniuses!)
Lol….Gayle
Michelle’s invitation to trace some of the money has gotten people busy. see:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/bill-hobbs/2007/09/05/tracking-hsus-dirty-money-tennessee
lol jrl, dl, I dont know all I heard was he wrote a check, and it was before the holiday late.????
Band name: Malkins Falcons.
Just read Michelle’s article in the NY Post today…
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09052007/postopinion/opedcolumnists/dems_funny_money.htm?page=2
Michelle – you are such a wordsmith:
ROFL!
Any one remember the old radio program The Shadow? There was a lead in line “What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Men? The Shadow Knows”.
Perhaps now days it would be Hil and Bill Know.
When it comes to Bill & Hill and the Dems – it’s more like “Inner Sanctum”
Bear you’re goin way back my father used to quote that show.
are you guys sure that wasn’t “The Twilight Zone”? aka the Clinton Years
More like the “Blue Collar Comedy Tour” – or was that the Carter years?
( My apologies to Jeff, Larry, Ron & Bill E. )
jrlingreenbay, I’m rolling on the floor over here. Great posts.
Hsu eeee! Hsu eeee! here Hsu! Hsu eeee!
I think it might take a shovel to find this clown.
What charities are these guys giving it to? The Manhattan Library? One of Hsu’s former addresses.
http://www.newt.org/forum/topic.asp?fi=20000001&catId=30000001&ti=400003202
Now Obamination is caught in taking questionable donations.
I fear that with the democrats “Truth is Scarcer Than Hen’s Teeth”
As Johnny Cash would say: It’s ain’t easy being a boy names Hsu.
Oh Peachy just on fox news, judge says if Hsu’s caught he will be put in jail without bail. lol, duh! thats what you should have done in the first place!
AJ That “IF” seems to sum it all up.
yup.
#74 doinwhatican,
You think? Will “They” be actively looking for Hsu? “They” never found Hoffa.
Mayberry was run better than our court system.
“As Johnny Cash would say: It’s ain’t easy being a boy names Hsu.”
Now that was funny!
By any chance does he have a public defender?
Hillary put the word out./ lol
Well Gosh Darnit….holy cow, knock me over with a 2 million dollllllaaaarrrr straw!!!!
My personal thought is, the boy named “Hsu” (that really is funny mojo)..has been returned to China, via the Chinese Military connections he obviously has….remember the information the Chinese got from then President Clinton…they know how to get more…and right where to deposit the cash……
He may be served on a platter as Chow Mein at your local China Palace.
Either he’s committed “suicide”…coughing here…OR he’s hijacked that small boat to China, named Lo Mein.
LOL Gayle #87. Is this what the democrats call political Moo Shoo “pork”?
I see the new fad for the democrats is to give the money to (their) charity. How about giving it to our troops and their families? After all the Dems claim they support our troops.
The most probably explanation of the Hsu disappearance is that he is a spy who has returned to China. He did his job in the USA, and was able to purchase political influence and important defense technology during the Clinton year. He is now retiring in luxury in China with a new identity as a liberal college professor.
I imagine those Chinese gang leader kidnappers had a lil unfinished business with Mr Hsu also, and they “dont need no stinking badges”.
I wonder if in the 15 years as a fugitive he ever found the one armed man?
Congrats jrlingreenbay, very creative
indeed.
Skipping on $2 million means only one thing – The Dog is on his way to China to bring him back.
You guys and girls are really rolling on this;great posts.I think we should start checking out the National Parks for abandoned cars.
Maybe I’m too cynical about things where the Clintons are concerned,but I think the fix was in on this one…can’t help but think that Slick or somebody called the court and made it known that it would be considered a ‘personal favor’ if Hsu were allowed to post bail……now that he is very likely back in China,he will not be seen or heard from here in the US again any time soon
Has anybody looked in Marcy Park?
I think I know where he has run to. You will find him with his cover back on. It will have a big red commie star.
And the Simpsons:
“Chief Wiggum: Yeah, yeah. Save it for Dateline, Tuesday. What’s your address, so I can come and arrest you.
Marge: Arrest me? My address! It’s uum…. 1..2…3…. Fake Street!
Chief Wiggum: 123 Fake Street. Got it.”
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
(oops, that’s a diff Belushi pic)