Norman Hsu & Hillary Clinton: More Clinton Campaign Scandal News
By Tom Fitton
Sep 10, 2007
Hillary Clinton's leading fundraiser, Norman Hsu, has been "outed" as a fugitive from justice. Hsu pleaded guilty to a felony count of grand theft in 1991 for defrauding investors and then never showed up for his sentencing hearing scheduled in a San Mateo County, California, courtroom. Facing up to three years in jail, Hsu skipped town only to reappear across the country in New York three years ago as a wealthy apparel executive and a leading Democratic fundraiser. He has brought in more than $1 million to Hillary’s presidential campaign coffers.
Following the recent media frenzy, however, Hsu was forced to turn himself in to authorities. He spent a grand total of five hours in jail before posting bail. Then on Wednesday, a funny thing happened on the way to court: Hsu failed to show up, again!
Norman Hsu & Hillary Clinton: More Clinton Campaign Scandal News (image: Wenn)
Hsu's attorney, with a dazzling sense of the obvious said, “Mr. Hsu is not here and we do not know where he is.” (Has anyone checked the latest Hillary Clinton campaign fundraising event?) A new warrant was issued for Hsu’s arrest. According to Judge Robert Foiles, next time there will be no bail.
On the heels of that Clinton campaign fundraising controversy, came this one. According to The Washington Post:
“Sant S. Chatwal, an Indian American businessman has helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaigns, even as he battled governments on two continents to escape bankruptcy and millions of dollars in tax liens.”
Here is Chatwal’s corruption resume: The IRS pursued him for approximately $4 million in unpaid business taxes; New York State is seeking more than $5 million in taxes; federal regulators sued him to recoup millions in loans from a failed bank where Chatwal served as a director; he lost one New York City building due to unpaid business taxes; and, oh yes, he was also charged with bank fraud in India.
The Post notes with a measure of incredulity “Yet none of the legal and financial woes…raised red flags inside Hillary Clinton’s fundraising operation.” In fact, in a rare moment of honesty when asked if Chatwal’s background gave cause for concern, Hillary’s campaign spokesman Phil Singer said, flatly, “No.”
Why would the Clintons be concerned about Chatwal? In an earlier column I articulated the long list of fundraising schemes concocted by the Clintons. This week I’ll remind you of just one of them, the Chinagate scandal, where the Clintons and Al Gore collected Chinese communist-connected funds in exchange for special access to the Clinton White House and policy favors.
The Clintons aren’t bothered by red flags. They collect them.
The American people, however, are a different story. You may recall that Judicial Watch recently sponsored a poll conducted by Zogby that showed that 45% of likely voters are concerned there will be “high levels of corruption in the White House” if Hillary is elected President. We don’t have to wait for a presidential election for high levels of Clinton corruption.
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