Sep 21 2007
More Hsu/Clinton finance scandals
Behold: See how the Democrats get money for their campaigns. Via Politico.
Hsu charged with running pyramid scheme
He’s being charged both with running a pyramid scheme and with campaign finance violations, says the Journal.
Federal prosecutors said in a criminal complaint that Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu pressured investors to make campaign contributions through him in order to raise his public profile — then used his prominence to find more investors for illegal Ponzi schemes.
The three-count complaint was unsealed yesterday by the U.S. attorney in Manhattan. The complaint also says Mr. Hsu gave people money to make some donations, which is illegal.
Intriguingly, this is the federal prosecutor in New York, and seems like a Justice Department move to bigfoot the California authorities, opening a prosecutorial turf war subplot. (Seems like a tough time for Justice to bring a case that has anything at all to do with politics, actually.)
No comment from the Southern District, and no indictment yet.
And Politico continues with some questions about what Hillary is doing with those ill gotten gains.
Sister Toljah wakes up a few more questions about Hillary’s campaigns and the illegal donations.
In the meantime, the Hillary campaign is facing more campaign fundraising questions:
BRISTOW, Va. — When Hillary Rodham Clinton held an intimate fund-raising event at her Washington home in late March, Pamela Layton donated $4,600, the maximum allowed by law, to Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign.
But the 37-year-old Ms. Layton says she and her husband were reimbursed by her husband’s boss for the donations. “It wasn’t personal money. It was all corporate money,” Mrs. Layton said outside her home here. “I don’t even like Hillary. I’m a Republican.”
The boss is William Danielczyk, founder of a Washington-area private-equity firm and a major fund-raising “bundler” for Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Layton’s gift was one of more than a dozen donations that night from people with Republican ties or no history of political giving. Mr. Danielczyk and his family, employees and friends donated a total of $120,000 to Mrs. Clinton in the days around the fund-raiser.
In an interview, Mr. Danielczyk said he “did not and would not” reimburse employees or others for their political donations. Such reimbursement would be illegal. Mr. Danielczyk said he was a co-host for the event at Mrs. Clinton’s home. “Everybody was asked to contribute,” he said, “some said yes and some said no.” He added, “No arm was twisted.”
Right…
ST asks the money question:
The questions keep piling up for Clinton and co., but a side question to all this is: Will any other news outlets outside of the LAT and the WSJ start digging into the records of this and other questionable Clinton “bundlers” to find out what they’re hiding - and possibly what the candidate herself is hiding? The news about Hsu is nowhere to be found on the front page of the NYT, as of the writing of this post. Oh wait, it’s on their blog, but there is no major story on the front page about this at all.
Would that be the case if Hsu had worked for a Republican?
I don’t think so.
Oh. Am I being unfair to accuse the Democrats of being habitually corrupt? To a degree, probably. I am sure their are more then a few shady dealing Republicans.
But Democrats have trashed Republicans for the slightest flaw, so this is just painting the other side of the story.
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