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The NYT appears to have information about some of the bundled money donated to Democrats from Norman Hsu.

At the center of the ever-deepening mystery of Norman Hsu, the fugitive fund-raiser who was captured after a brief flight from the law last week, is the question of how he evolved from a bankrupt swindler in 1992 to a wealthy donor to many Democratic candidates, and a bundler of campaign contributions to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2007.

A review of financial records for one of Mr. Hsu’s companies begins to shed light on some of his recent activities, including his dealings with a circle of campaign contributors that has fallen under suspicion since news of Mr. Hsu’s criminal past, murky business interests and unexplained riches rocked the Democratic Party.

The records show that Components Ltd., a company controlled by Mr. Hsu that has no obvious business purpose and appears to exist only on paper, has paid a total of more than $100,000 to at least nine people who made campaign contributions to Mrs. Clinton and others through Mr. Hsu. The payments occurred in the spring of 2003, several months before Mr. Hsu emerged as a contributor to Democrats and more than a year before he started bundling checks from those same people for various campaigns. In all, he has raised more than $1 million for Democrats.

The article continues:

The financial records for Components Ltd. show that Mr. Su’s wife, Lelawattie Su, wired $100,000 to the company in May 2003, and that Mr. Hsu used that money to wire $109,500 the next day to a woman in California. On another occasion, Mr. Paw wired $20,000 to Components Ltd., and Mr. Hsu immediately wired $30,000 to another company whose location could not be determined.

In roughly that same period, Components Ltd. issued three checks to Mr. Paw totaling about $16,000, and checks and wire transfers totaling more than $100,000 to eight other people, including a worker at a rehabilitation center for the handicapped, a housewife, a nurse, a real estate developer, a plastics company executive and his wife, and a clothing shop manager.

Mr. Hsu later bundled campaign contributions from all of those people, including Mr. Paw and six members of his family, along with Mr. and Mrs. Su. The Paws and Sus together contributed more than $400,000 since 2004 to Democrats across the country, usually in tandem with Mr. Hsu.

This story continues to grow, and the information which continues to come to light only furthers the question of what exactly the individuals responsible for vetting donations to the democrats who received contributions were doing all this time. If this much information is available in such short order after the re-arrest of Hsu, it would seem only plausible at least portions of the same should have been available to them.

Much more in the article itself..well worth the read.

Update A must see. Flip at Suitably Flip has paid a visit not only to Mr. Hsu’s residence but has also personally checked out all his published business addresses. I’m shocked I tell you by what he discovered. (Complete with pictures)

Written by Sue

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3 Responses to “Mr. Hsu seems to have some answering to do”


  1. ~J~ Says:


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    If it’s finally hit the NYT I doubt it’s going away as Guss seems to hope it will.


  2. Sue Says:


    Visit Sue

    My sentiments exactly J. Could have used a few other sources but the fact that the NYT did such an extensive article just shows that this story has legs.

    If you get the chance, check out the update. Very interesting.


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