Posted by
Mike Bates on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 8:04:29 PM
Today Reuters reported the story
"Democrat fundraiser guilty of illegal donations." Author Christine Kearney begins:
A former U.S. Democratic Party fundraiser whose 2007
arrest prompted Hillary Clinton to return $850,000 in campaign
contributions was found guilty on Tuesday of breaking federal campaign
laws.
Businessman Norman Hsu, 58, was convicted by a jury in federal
court in New York of violating election laws by making donations to
political campaigns in other people's names. Hsu also pleaded guilty on
May 7 to charges of mail fraud and wire fraud in running a Ponzi scheme
of up to $60 million.
Jurors convicted Hsu of violating four counts of federal election
law between 2004 and 2007. During the trial, prosecutors said Hsu
pressured some of the investors involved in his Ponzi scheme to make
thousands of dollars in contributions to political candidates on his
behalf.
The story runs nine paragraphs, but only one reference to Barack Obama is made:
Clinton lost her bid for her party's presidential
nomination last year to Barack Obama. She now serves as a prominent
member of her former rival's Cabinet.
Obama has considerably more of a connection to Hsu than Reuters relates. In 2007,
The Washington Post reported in the story "Hsu Steered Major Fundraiser to Obama:"
Before becoming a major bundler for Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton's presidential campaign, disgraced Democratic donor Norman Hsu
helped host a 2005 California event for Barack Obama's political action
committee and introduced the senator from Illinois to one of the
biggest fundraisers for his presidential bid.
Federal Election Commission records show that Hsu gave $5,000 to
Obama's Hopefund PAC in connection with the fundraiser and that people
publicly identified with Hsu and his companies gave an additional
$19,500 to the PAC in 2005 and 2006.
Mark Gorenberg, who now sits on Obama's national finance committee
and is one of his biggest fundraisers, said Hsu organized an early 2005
event for the Hopefund and invited him to help raise money.
"He introduced me to Barack Obama," Gorenberg said of Hsu. "He was
working on an event for Barack's PAC, and he asked me to help, and I
did. Barack came up to San Francisco, and [Hsu] introduced him to a
bunch of people."
Obama's relationship with sleazy hustlers like Norman Hsu doesn't
comport with the narrative of Mr. Hope and Change tailored by the
mainstream media. That's possibly why Hsu's conviction, which occurred
this morning, still hadn't been reported on CNN as of 4:00 PM (ET) this
afternoon.
Identifying Hillary's connection to Hsu is one thing. But their
hero Barry has a re-election to win in only three years, so why taint
his radiant reputation?