What does Hillary know about Hsu?
Sorry folks, I have a great deal of distrust for Hillary Clinton. In what appears to be another purely political move on her part she had decided to return further monies donated to her campaign which were in some fashion tied to this felon.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign said Monday it will return $850,000 in donations raised by Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who is under federal investigation for violating election laws.
Clinton, D-N.Y., previously had planned only to give to charity $23,000 she received from Hsu for her presidential and senatorial campaigns and to her political action committee, HillPac.
Isn’t it just a wee bit interesting there was no interest in returning this full amount of money when the original story surfaced and $23,000 was returned, but now that the FBI is investigating, she wants to wash her hands of this man and all of his contributions.
I expect some carefully crafted statement to come from her campaign soon or perhaps the candidate herself to speak. Must have frightened her a bit too that her name was bandied about in papers like the NYT and the LAT in a less than favorable light. When was the last time you heard of that happening to a candidate with the last name Clinton. I suppose now she will attempt to become the hero for “doing the right thing.” No. Doing the right thing would have been to give all the money back when it was learned that Mr. Hsu was a fugitive from justice.
This story is not going to disappear and the more we learn the worse it could become for those on the left who can be tied to this man. Let me rephrase that, if we don’t have another teflon candidate that would be the case…my greatest fear is that we do and that others not so deeply involved with Mr. Hsu’s money will pay the consequence.
Update: Further information has become available following the initial piece:My Way News is reporting the following:
“In light of recent events and allegations that Mr. Norman Hsu engaged in an illegal investment scheme, we have decided out of an abundance of caution to return the money he raised for our campaign,” Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said in a statement Monday night. “An estimated 260 donors this week will receive refunds totaling approximately $850,000 from the campaign.”
Wolfson said the Clinton campaign also will vigorously review its fundraisers, including thorough criminal background checks, in the future. “In any instances where a source of a bundler’s income is in question, the campaign will take affirmative steps to verify its origin,” he said.
The amount that the campaign identified as raised by Hsu would make him one of her top fundraisers. During the first six months of this year, her presidential campaign raised $52 million from individual contributors, second to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who raised $58.5 million.
So now they will thoroughly vet their fundraisers? Nice timing don’t you think?
HT: Drudge Report
Check out Macsmind where he mentions the growing FBI investigation of this campaign finance fraud. Good stuff.
Written by Sue