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Norman Hsu has been released from the hospital and sent to jail to await a hearing on his extradition to California, where he has been listed as a fugitive for the past 16 years.
Today’s Wall Street Journal is reporting Hsu sent a suicide note to several recipients before heading for Chicago on an Amtrak train.
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.
Was Norman Hsu simply a con man who got people’s money with his scams as has been suggested, or was he working for more sinister forces, as many suspect?
Why would a jail sentence cause him to run away and attempt suicide? Was there something else he was trying to hide?
Only time will tell if he talks or not and fills in all the blanks. I have my personal suspicions but no proof so I’ll just speculate that he was afraid of his real backers as they would have killed him in a way he wouldn’t have preferred. That’s just my opinion.
Update: Captain Ed is wondering why Hsu preferred suicide over running also.
Written by ~J~Why commit suicide? Why not just run? Hsu had the resources to make a run for it, especially given his fleecing of Woodstock impressario Joel Rosenman. Forty million could get Hsu anywhere in the world, or even a small fraction of it could get him back to Hong Kong quietly enough. Could it be that Hsu feared something even worse than exposure — even worse than prison?
Why did Hsu work so hard to corrupt so many campaigns? Who wanted to buy influence, and why?
michael Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 11:04 amVisit michael
Norman Hsu got on a chartered jet with his passport. Typed a suicide letter and sent it to numerous charities and acquaintances, then boarded a train in order to have some much needed privacy for hsuicide.
Pretty much a textbook suicide case so far…
Just a few points about the missing 40 million…
1. Hsu told Source Financial the money was to manufacture clothes for Gucci & Prada in China. Neither company manufactures any items in China, ever.
2. Source Financial never noticed that Hsu’s businesses didn’t exist before loaning him money. They also failed to check his background, or look for a factory in China connected to Hsu.
3. Source Financial was accepting checks post dated by 135 days as payment on their huge loans to Hsu.
4. Source Financial employees are also big Hillary donors.
5. Hillary set aside 1 million dollars of taxpayer money for a “Woodstock” museum. The head of Source Financial was a major Woodstock promoter and also a long time Clinton friend.
6. It took 2 weeks for the head of Source Financial to realize there might be some kind of connection between his company, Clinton, and Hsu.
7. One of the recipients of Hsu’s suicide note googled the term “Hsu Suicide” BEFORE anyone knew where he was or what he was doing - according to Michelle Malkin.
These are just a few of the latest strange facts in this case
Sue Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 11:15 amVisit Sue
Michael:
Thanks for visiting.
Strange does not even begin to explain it. The fact that The folks at Source financial are not only big donors to the Clintons but some of them have been their “friends” for a long while makes this whole thing suspicious.
How do you just all of a sudden remember 40 million dollars.
Were they just a bit concerned the Feds might be knocking on their door so they decided to come up with this story and report it on their own? Or are they doing a certain candidate a favor with a cover story for what is much a far larger scandal? Far too many unanswered questions for me at this point.
~J~ Says:
September 13th, 2007 at 1:21 pmVisit ~J~
Source Financial is trying now to cover their butts so they don’t get investigated along with Hsu and Clinton and the DNC about their funny money schemes.
I was told the other day by a liberal Democrat this wouldn’t stick because it was too far from the election. I disagreed for that very same reason. It’s far enough from the election for the investigators to get down to the meat if not the bones of the story and can only hurt the Dems and Clinton in the end.
I still want to know what the charity is that is receiving the tainted money. I believe it to be the DNC or some PAC that will plow the money right back where it came from.
Thanks for visiting, Michael.