Well-Heeled Hsu
A fish stinks from the head down:
Disgraced fund-raiser Norman Hsu did a lot more than just pump $850,000 into Hillary Clinton’s campaign bank account: He also raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local, state, and federal candidates who have endorsed Clinton or whose support she courted.
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The story points out that there’s nothing illegal about steering donations to other candidates, but the Hillary campaign’s conduct raises legitimate questions about just how much it coordinated its activities, endorsements and so forth with moneyman Hsu. And in turn, just how much the campaign actually knew about him. As a wanted fugitive, Hsu’s name should have come up in any background checks conducted by the Secret Service.
This story originated in the Boston Glob, and Charles Ponzi hatched his eponymous schemes in Boston in the 1920s. There’s some kind of karmic justice there.