Don’t want any accidents to happen, now, do we? According to Benjamin, because of the high level of media attention surrounding Hsu’s case, he is being housed away from other inmates “for his own safety,” she said. However, he is……

The Murky News details the tech industry’s glee at the downfall of one of their great nemeses, securities lawyer Bill Lerach. Lerach led an anti-business crusade that punished entrepreneurs and retarded risk-taking. The WSJ is rejoicing as well. As Gl…

“…Can special funds be set up exert greater influence on another country’s government and legislature through lobbying?”

Tri, Chung, Riadi, el al, technology transfers unchecked (and un-prosecuted)…

Nothing there right?

(He’s good for all sides with the endless possibilities of playing with his name.)

eeyore on September 15, 2007 at 4:28 PM

Hsu better believe it!

…why (as I pondered here) Joel Rosenman, the Woodstock guy, would loan forty million dollars to Hsu when only minimal due diligence would have uncovered his shady past.

The smart money’s on the brown acid.

No one questions Norman Hsu!

Nobody puts Norman Hsu in a corner, either.

“I think this should not be seen solely or even primarily as something that was done for President Clinton, because President Jiang is a Chinese politician and Chinese politicians, like American politicians, make calculations based upon domestic result and domestic impact.”

“I know you are, but what am I?”

We need to learn more about the people who have their money in Source Financial. If they turn out to NOT be people who were already donating lots to the Democratic Party, I’ll be suprised.

As for

Why would anyone with an embarrassing criminal past want to distinguish himself as a major Clinton donor?

I just think crooks think they can get away with crimes and with consorting with criminals.

Hey, if Hsu’s a criminal and there are pictures of him with Sandy Berger, would that violate Berger’s parole??

Yeah, just trying to figure out where the money came from. How Hsu chose to distribute it is another problem.

William Amos on September 15, 2007 at 4:25 PM

Two words; Ivan Boesky.

One of the basic principles of the high-end con is using multiple sources of funding advances to prevent any one source from realizing they’ve been had until it’s too late (i.e., when the con man is somewhere that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the U.S.). Granted, it takes a bit of juggling, but from all indications, Hsu is smart enough to do it. And if he has any knowledge of U.S. domestic politics at all, he was probably counting on the fact that his political clients were of the Democratic persuasion to discourage people from looking too closely at his procedures.

The moral being, if you’re going to pull a Ponzi, make sure you grease the right palms first.

An axiom that I suspect Hsu is counting on to save his bacon, right about now.

cheers

eon

It’s cute, it’s a tall cone with little moons and stars on it.

With a hole in the back?

Anyway, speaking of asking questions, here’s one of the exit variety: why didn’t the Clintons ask any even when their own people were screaming that Hsu was fishy? Apparently the FBI has a few questions about that.

I think we all already know the answer to that.

Anyway, interesting theory See-Dub, but just to clarify… this is a theory, simply on the source of the cash right? Not about how he filtered it out to donate under other names?

The Left: intellectually incurious.

Now, now, See-Dub my friend, you know very well that where a person gets his money is not a matter of intellectual curiosity but of personal privacy.

What you then *do* with the money is of course the government’s business right down to the last penny, but that’s not news in the DNC.

With Hsu, not so much. He seems only good for the wackiness angle – AMTRAK, pills, etc.

I Hsu wish they would pay more attention to this scandal. (He’s good for all sides with the endless possibilities of playing with his name.)

but agian beggers the question how could ONE man carry off so many high level scams ? Thats a lot of money to keep track of.

Rosenman was involved in a dot.com company called Idealab that involved former GM Headman Jack Welch

idealab

Jack Cassidy warned in JUNE that he suspected Hsu was running a ponzi scheme and was TOLD by a member of the Clinton Campaign that Hsu was “100% completely Legit

Camp Clinton never responded to Cassidy, but dealt
with the worried California party members. According
to the Los Angeles Times, Clinton’s Western finance
director, Samantha Wolf, e-mailed, “I can tell you
with 100% certainty that Norman Hsu is NOT involved in
a Ponzi scheme,” adding, “He is COMPLETELY legit.”

Cassidy warnings

Also is possiblity that hsu is involved in another scam worth $33 million

San Deigo Scam

I think it is possible that Hsu was going from scam to scam. he would run one scam. Get some money then move on to another scam

It seems he was using the dems to get access to the high and mighty to shake them down. All the while they are taking his scam money and turning a blind eye.

Again keep in mind that in JUNE cassidy had warned Clinton that he thought Hsu was dirty. And Clinton STILL planned to keep the money

Very, very clever. Basic idea: The PRC actually did make good on Hsu’s promises of cheaply made and highly profitable clothing, precisely so Norman Hsu could get the money needed to donate like a cyclone to Hillary! Clinton. In other……

i know that its a real stretch but i can dream can’t i.

C