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Hsu Headed to Prison
Friday, January 4, 2008
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced
Friday to three years in prison after a judge rejected his bid to throw out
a 16-year-old fraud conviction.
Hsu's lawyers had asked Judge Stephen Hall to dismiss his 1992 no-contest
plea, arguing that Hsu's right to a speedy trial was violated because
authorities were not actively pursuing him during his years as a fugitive.
They could easily have arrested Hsu, his lawyers argued, at one of the
fundraisers he hosted in California for prominent local politicians.
Hsu also faces federal fraud charges in New York.
His troubles began dogging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other big-name
Democrats last summer when news reports revealed he was a fugitive who fled
the state before he was sentenced for the 1992 fraud conviction. He turned
himself in on Aug. 31 - then fled again.
He was recaptured in September in Colorado after he tried to kill himself by
overdosing on drugs aboard an eastbound Amtrak train. Hsu has since been
held without bail in a Redwood City jail.
Hsu Headed to Prison
Friday, January 4, 2008
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. -- Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu was sentenced
Friday to three years in prison after a judge rejected his bid to throw out
a 16-year-old fraud conviction.
Hsu's lawyers had asked Judge Stephen Hall to dismiss his 1992 no-contest
plea, arguing that Hsu's right to a speedy trial was violated because
authorities were not actively pursuing him during his years as a fugitive.
They could easily have arrested Hsu, his lawyers argued, at one of the
fundraisers he hosted in California for prominent local politicians.
Hsu also faces federal fraud charges in New York.
His troubles began dogging Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and other big-name
Democrats last summer when news reports revealed he was a fugitive who fled
the state before he was sentenced for the 1992 fraud conviction. He turned
himself in on Aug. 31 - then fled again.
He was recaptured in September in Colorado after he tried to kill himself by
overdosing on drugs aboard an eastbound Amtrak train. Hsu has since been
held without bail in a Redwood City jail.