Campaign Finance Issues Cause Problems for Some Democrats
Sep 4th, 2007 • Posted in: NewsWASHINGTON
Democrats are facing an ethics issue involving Norman Hsu, a prominent fundraiser reportedly under federal investigation for campaign-finance charges.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Hsu also is facing an unrelated grand-theft charge on which he was booked formally last week.
Hsu is one of the top fundraisers for Hillary Clinton’s presidential run, and has helped raise money for or donated funds to several other high-profile candidates, including New York governor Eliot Spitzer and Barack Obama during his 2004 Senate campaign in Illinois, according to MSNBC.
In one of her first public comments about the controversy, Sen. Clinton (N.Y.) told the Boston Globe that she will be more careful about vetting donors. She said she will turn over the money donated by Hsu to charity.
Sen. Clinton had declined comment on the Wall Street Journal’s report that the U.S. Justice Department was ramping up its current probe into campaign finance issues.
The San Jose Mercury News notes that the case is odd in many ways — including the fact that Hsu has led a very public life despite the fact that he has been a fugitive from California state authorities since 1991, when he was convicted in the case for which he surrendered last week. An attorney for Hsu had told the Mercury News that his client was unaware of the outstanding warrant against him.
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