Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Hillary's Hsu Strings

This story comes from Investor's Business Daily.

Democratic senator and presidential candidate Clinton is returning one of the largest amounts of money in the history of U.S. campaigns. Roughly 260 donors associated with the Hong Kong-born Hsu, a suspected Ponzi scheme mastermind, will get back about $850,000 in tainted donations. Hsu is suspected of pressuring his client/victims to become straw donors to Clinton and other Democrats.

• Why would a suspected swindler be a top donor to a White House favorite? Is Hsu fronting for a group, a foreign government?

• Why did Clinton ignore warnings about Hsu? California businessman Jack Cassidy reportedly alerted the Clinton campaign in June of his suspicions that Hsu was a fraudster.

• The Clinton campaign is accepting future contributions from the same people to whom, because of their associations with Hsu, it is returning $850,000. That amounts to a shell game.

• The Jack Abramoff scandal dominated the headlines last year. Why do the media suddenly become less interested in campaign finance improprieties when the violator is a Democrat?

Let's stay on the story. I'm very interested in Hillary's improprieties.

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