Hsu-icide diary: A curious Google search
In the late afternoon of Sept. 6, several hours before Norman Hsu was apprehended in Colorado, I got a curious visit on my website. Someone had Googled “Norman Hsu suicide.” My site came up in the search results because someone had made reference to Vince Foster’s suicide in the comments of one of my Hsu posts.
According to my public Sitemeter referral log, the visitor who Googled “Norman Hsu suicide” came from this law firm: Sack Harris & Martin, P.C., in McLean, Va.
I thought it was strange, made a mental note of the search, and bookmarked the law firm’s website, but did not blog about it.
In light of the Wall Street Journal’s new article today, though, I think the info is worth mentioning. The WSJ reports:
Before Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu skipped a court hearing and temporarily vanished last week, he typed out a suicide note and sent copies to several acquaintances and charitable organizations, according to people who received it.
The one-page note, signed by Mr. Hsu, “very explicitly said he intended to commit suicide,” said one of the recipients in an account corroborated by others, including law-enforcement officials. Mr. Hsu also apologized for putting anybody “through inconvenience or trouble,” the recipient said.
The letter, which began, “To whom it may concern,” arrived by FedEx at the addresses of several recipients last Thursday, the day after Mr. Hsu disappeared.
As the letters arrived, Mr. Hsu was on a Chicago-bound train from California. He fell ill and was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., where he was arrested. Yesterday he was released from the hospital and transferred to the Mesa County Jail, pending extradition back to California.
A spokesman for Mr. Hsu said he wouldn’t comment about the letter.
In the letter, Mr. Hsu wrote he was very upset by a wave of press in recent weeks that raised questions about his political fund-raising and business activities. Among other things, the articles brought attention to a 1991 fraud charge in California, to which he had pleaded no contest and then disappeared before his sentencing hearing.
Hsu was booked into Mesa County’s jail yesterday and will be extradited to San Mateo County, Calif.
Flip Pidot wonders: “Here’s what I don’t get - if Hsu was indeed suicidal over the “wave of press in recent weeks that raised questions about his political fund-raising and business activities,” and he FedExed the suicide note before getting on the train with a fistful of pills, why the coordinated attempts at suicide and unlawful flight? Was one backup, in case the other didn’t work?”
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I thought hara-kiri was Japanese sthick, can’t these Democrats get anything right?
Ah well, the Clintons just need to relaunder his money to make all things right again….
It does seem strange that someone would google “Norman Hsu Suicide” before anyone knew where he was.
Knowing these suicide letters went out would make someone question whether or not this firm received one of those letters… but why?
Who does this firm represent? Hsu himself?
How many people make COPIES of a suicide note and send them out Fed-Ex?
This is getting more strange every day.
morning purplepeep
the family honor type thing is big in the Chinese culture as well … but I think if this sort of thing was really that important to Hsu he would have taken an action like this back in 1991 when he was convicted on the other charges …
this was an attempt to get away by creating a distraction with this letter about suicide so they would be looking hard for him in CA and nowhere else while he snuck out of the country from Chicago …
somehow he got “sick” and that forced him out of hiding … still not sure how he got sick … probably we will never know … especially since there is Clinton involvement …
I’m being catty here. Hsu bags under eyes seem to duplicate Hillary’s. Do ALL dem’s start to look like that over 55? Or,is this just the result of duplicity, dishonesty and ignorance?
Maybe Hillary’s gang was going to take him out.
Is it just me or does this firms resumes look like the Norman Hsu how to handbook on Transactions maybe they should change the name to Dewey, Cheatem & How
Mornin’ to ya
Oh yeah, DL, I knew that, the concept is “face”. I was just funnin’ with it.
You and jrl are right, this is one fishy way to go about Hsu-icide.
Maybe a copy of the note will turn up on a dining room table at the Clintons’ place next to some missing Rose Law firm billing records?
I heard one story earlier in the week that a bunch of pill bottles were found in his train car. Havnt heard anything since or even know if its true.
Their motto: “We Hsu peoples’ a$$es off.”
Oops - sounds like a cover-up gone bad.
Maybe he’ll get protective custody and will spill the beans?
One can hope.
AJ! You HAVE to be a 3-Stooges fan…
Isnt everyone?
I don’t get it.
I work for a law firm and I google all sorts of crazy stuff. It doesn’t make me part of a conspiracy if I stumble on something that turns out to be true.
And I hope and pray that the comments about Sen. Clinton’s murderous hit squads are indeed jokes.
Rusty:
Anyone with any investigative sense would at least question the timing of such a google search.
As for the Clinton comments…. anyone with any logic HAS to question a lot of the Clinton dealings - including the deaths which surround a lot of the people involved in them over the years.
I don’t think anyone is accusing anything…. just a curiousity.
Oops - italic dyslexia - need more coffee
lol, I just read on Ricks web-site Sandy Berger has been hired by Clinton as a foreign policy advisor. You have got to be kidding me!
ricks site,
rightwingnuthouse
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Google it.
.
There is some very real seriousness in what the clintons have been involved with.
Try ‘clinton body count’ for starters. We report you decide.
Aj - is anyone else reporting this?
I can’t find it anywhere……….
I made the comment about Hsu suffering the same fate as Vince Foster that MM was referring to. He is not safe yet by a long shot. Clinton’s reach is long. The person Googling (Googleing??) at the law firm may have been merely postulating the Hsu was going to commit suicide, but then again, they may have been researching if anyone else was making the same postulation, and deciding if a “suicide” would be a plausible way to get Hsu out of the way. And multiple copies of a suicide note FedExed??? That just sounds wierd.
That’s the only thing I’ve seen this morning jrl.
If true - it will be VERY interesting to see how the MSM handles the story…
jrl,
Why havn’t they already? shhh, dont tell anybody. lol
Good grief. Why do liberals get accused of wearing the tinfoil hats?
It’s a big jump from taking improper contributions to murder.
Ok - here’s a mention of his work for Hillary’s campaign, look about 1/2 way down the page in the 3rd or 4th paragraph - essentially BURIED -
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20628439/site/newsweek/page/0/
This is from September 6th. We’re now one week beyond this story’s date and I haven’t heard a peep from the MSM about Hillary Clinton taking advice from a convicted felon.
They mention it as off-the-cuff as saying ‘pass the sugar’.
Makes you cringe a little more….
Arkancide
A strange occurrence of events where more people fall down dead around a certain pair from Arkansas than all the stiffs on Murder She Wrote.
JRL,
Just think how much stuff is buried in all the Clinton paperwork that they wont let out yet. She’s as crooked as Olvera st.
Opps lombard st. lol
I was gonna say… “Olvera St.”???
They should rename Lombard Street, ‘Clinton Avenue’.
It would be more appropriate.
Well in all reality Olvera st. is crooked also. Just pull an INS truck up down their and watch what happens.
The moral of the story, kids, is “don’t do ignorant, illegal things if you might feel bad after you get caught and people talk about you like the rat-fink you are”.
Olvera Street isn’t crooked - it’s just a microcosm of the new Democratic voting constituency.
Desert Lover #3; The question is, would Hsu have gone to the Clinton fund raiser in Chicago prior to taking off?
That’s Bill Clinton’s fund raiser.
The CLintons put laughter in manslaughter
I know whatcha mean, Rusty. There’s not a morning that goes by that I don’t pour up a cuppa joe and conduct Google searches for “Democrat bagmen and suicide”.
Yeah, good point! Who needs hit squads when so many have been amiable and accomidating enough to off themselves? Much easier, that.
As for the Sandy Burglar thing, Uncle Jimbo over at Blackfive put up a post about it late last night. He linked to Richard Minitor at PJM.
If someone at SH&M heard about or received one of the suicide fedexes, what would that person immediately google to see if it were true or at the least, if other people were receiving the same note?
If you only search on “Norman Hsu” you’d get a ton of stories from the past two weeks, but I wouldn’t count on any recent (i.e., that day) hits that would tell you precisely what you’re hoping to find out.
Hsu is as fishy as an all-you-can-eat sushi buffet, but I don’t think you have enough evidence to implicate a random DC law firm in the plot.
All I gotta say is: WHY DO THE democrats ALL LOOK LIKE THIS GUY, INCLUDING THE WOMEN!!!
OK, I got that part, Aaron.
This part I don’t get -
I’m not sure how a law firm (or anyone else) would be receiving such a thing unless they were involved. I’m assuming the recipients would not be chosen at random from a phone book. I’ve never heard of “blind mailings” of suicide notes.
BTW, i know you were speaking hypothetically of the law firm receiving a copy.
Of course, since people know the Clintons’ record and what they’re capable of, the Google search in question could have also been by anyone who is critical of the Clintons MO.
LOL, peep,
But then again that Perv Craig left his “my intent is to resign speech” on some strangers answering machine.
Coulda been worse, AJ - at least he didn’t use an automatic Robo-Call program….
All,
That killer at Virginia Tech, Fed Exed his manifesto too didn’t he. Weird.
This is scary, Poor Hsu, I hardly got to know his rap sheet. I don’t think anyone can make his entire history disappear?
More here, from Allah. He fedexed some friends and some lawyers, some of them at the Innocence Project, according to the first link.
Maybe one of them hasa connection to this firm.
Because on the right such comments and speculations are made by scattered individuals on message boards. On the Left they’re made by the chairman of the national freaking party.
Paranoia and conspiracy theories aren’t a fringe or distraction for the Left, it’s their raison d’etre. When you see a group comparable to this holding regular protest marches demanding Clinton be arrested for Vince Foster’s death, then you can claim some kind of equality in tinfoil-hat-wearing. Until then you don’t have a leg to stand on.
See Dubya,
Colorado is talking about bail set at 4 million, WHAT? Hsu isn’t a flight risk or considered a danger to himself? This guy is able to lets call it “Come by Money. Colorado, the Feds, nobody thinks, that he can raise 4 million dollars?
Uh, 40 million is missing from mr. woodstock, lmao.
That was me. It would have been nice to get the credit, but, what the hell, I’m still a HUGE MM fan!
I can see the Fedex ad campaign now:
Choose Fedex. For the LAST letter you’ll ever send . . .
I think he should have sent it via UPS - then we could’ve had a Dale Jarrett commercial as he races the big brown truck across the country against the train, trying to get the letter to Virginia…….
“What can Brown do for you?”
I wonder if he mailed it in a Hsu box?
Ok super sleuthers. He Fedexed one to Hillary who obviously has some connections to or made inquiry to one of her legal friends. She wanted them to seek it out but on the QT. Who was to know it would hit on MM’s site who has a very sharp eye for these things. Mystery solved.
That would be Hsuper Hsuleuthers.
‘Hsu-fly, don’t bother me…’
He wanted Hsuper fast delivery
ajmontana in #16
Sack Harris and Martin, P.C.,
so that abbreviate S.H.A.M., P.C.
You’re all just a bunch of bad-punning Hsudo-intellectuals!
purplepeep
one thing we can be sure of is that this guy was never a Hsu-mo wrestler
Charles Ruff. See “The Death of”
It reminds me of “North by Northwest” sort of… “East by Northeast” in this case. I photoshopped Hsu’s face on Cary Grant as he runs from the plane in the cornfield, (”committing suicide”) but I guess it didn’t make the grade. Made me laugh …
A suicide note’s a great cover letter for an escapee or a murderer..just sayin’
Well they just set bail at $5 million today. I called the Chinese gov’t and they said they have it covered!!!!!!!!!
Why would you give this clown bail???????? PUT HIM IN JAIL WHERE HE BELONGS.
Isn’t he a convicted criminal? On the lam for how long now? Who is pulling strings for him? Don’t “they” know how high profile this case is, and it is under the Media microscope? It smells like someone is politically desperate.
Rusty,
Read away….
http://www.zpub.com/un/un-bc-body.html
Granted some these are a stretch…some are just accidents…but amazing how many “suicides” happened in the early 90’s during Whitewater and the beginnings of the Paula Jones matter…….