Guest PissingOffTheLeft@excite.com Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 "Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case By MIKE McINTIRE and LESLIE EATON Published: August 30, 2007 Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said yesterday that it would give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after learning that the authorities in California had a warrant for his arrest stemming from a 1991 fraud case." (Democ)RATS! YOU WILL BE STUPID ENOUGH TO NOMINATE HER!!!!!!!!!! http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/us/politics/30bundler.html?ex=1189051200&en=00ee337c9e083c5f&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS The donor, Norman Hsu, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democratic candidates since 2003, and was slated to be co-host next month for a Clinton gala featuring the entertainer Quincy Jones. The event would not have been unusual for Mr. Hsu, a businessman from Hong Kong who moves in circles of power and influence, serving on the board of a university in New York and helping to bankroll Democratic campaigns. But what was not widely known was that Mr. Hsu, who is in the apparel business in New York, has been considered a fugitive since he failed to show up in a San Mateo County courtroom about 15 years ago to be sentenced for his role in a scheme to defraud investors, according to the California attorney general's office. Mr. Hsu had pleaded no contest to one count of grand theft and was facing up to three years in prison. The travails of Mr. Hsu have proved an embarrassment for the Clinton campaign, which has strived to project an image of rectitude in its fund-raising and to dispel any lingering shadows of past episodes of tainted contributions. Already, Mrs. Clinton's opponents were busy trying to rekindle remembrances of the 1996 Democratic fund-raising scandals, in which Asian moneymen were accused of funneling suspect donations into Democratic coffers as President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore were running for re-election. Some Clinton donors said yesterday that they did not expect the Hsu matter to hurt Mrs. Clinton unless a pattern of problematic fund- raising or compromised donors emerged, which would raise questions about the campaign's vetting of donors. Mr. Hsu's legal problems were first reported yesterday by The Los Angeles Times; The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday about his bundling of questionable contributions. "Everyone is trying to make the implications that it's Chinese money, that it's the Al Gore thing all over again, but I haven't seen any proof of that," said John A. Catsimatidis, a leading donor and fund- raiser for Mrs. Clinton in New York. Some donations connected to Mr. Hsu raise questions about his bundling activities, although there is no evidence he did anything improper. The Wall Street Journal reported that contributors he solicited included members of an extended family in Daly City, Calif., who had given $213,000 to candidates since 2004, even though some of them did not appear to have much money. A lawyer for Mr. Hsu, E. Lawrence Barcella Jr., has said that Mr. Hsu was not the source of any of the money he raised from other people, which would be a violation of federal election laws. On his own, Mr. Hsu wrote checks totaling $255,970 to a variety of Democratic candidates and committees since 2004. Even though he was a bundler for Mrs. Clinton, his largess was spread across the Democratic Party and included $5,000 to the political action committee of Senator Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois. Last month, Mr. Hsu was among the honored guests at a fund-raiser for Representative Patrick J. Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island, given by Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group at the New York Yacht Club. Al Franken, a Democratic Senate candidate in Minnesota, said he would divest his campaign of Mr. Hsu's donations, as did Representatives Michael M. Honda and Doris O. Matsui of California and Representative Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania, all Democrats. Mr. Hsu's success on the political circuit was not always matched by success in business. Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mr. Hsu came to the United States when he was 18 to attend the University of California, Berkeley, as a computer science major. He later received an M.B.A. at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, according to a brief biography that appeared in apparel industry trade publications in 1986. With a group of partners from Hong Kong, Mr. Hsu started a sportswear company in 1982 called Laveno that went bankrupt two years later, not long after he left the company. From that, he cycled through several other enterprises, mostly men's sportswear, under the Wear This, Base and Foreign Exchange labels. Mr. Hsu's career hit a low in 1989, when he began raising $1 million from investors as part of a plan to buy and resell latex gloves. Ronald Smetana, a lawyer with the California attorney general's office, said Mr. Hsu was charged with stealing the investors' money after it turned out he never bought any gloves and had no contract to resell them. When Mr. Hsu was to attend a sentencing hearing, he faxed a letter to his lawyer saying he had to leave town for an emergency and asking that the court date be rescheduled, Mr. Smetana said. He failed to show up for the rescheduled appearance, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. That was the last that prosecutors saw of Mr. Hsu. "We assumed he would go back to Hong Kong, where he could recede into anonymity," Mr. Smetana said. The California attorney general's office declined to comment on how it intends to pursue Mr. Hsu. Mr. Hsu issued a statement yesterday, saying he was "surprised to learn that there appears to be an outstanding warrant" and insisting that he had "not sought to evade any of my obligations and certainly not the law." "I would not consciously subject any of the candidates and causes in which I believe to any harm through my actions," he said. At some point, Mr. Hsu resurfaced in New York, where he was connected to several clothing-related businesses, according to campaign finance records, which list his occupation variously as an apparel consultant, clothing designer, retailer or company president. He also began to donate to the Democratic Party, and arranged for friends to do the same. He has been referred to in news accounts of campaign fund-raising events as an "apparel magnate" and his quick rise in the New York political and social scene - as well as his open checkbook - catapulted him into the big leagues. He became a trustee at the New School and was elected to the Board of Governors of Eugene Lang College there. He endowed a scholarship in his name at the college and was co-chairman of a benefit awards dinner in 2006 that featured Mrs. Clinton, who had secured a $950,000 earmark for a mentoring program at the college for disadvantaged city youths. Asked yesterday about Mr. Hsu, Brian Krapf, a spokesman for the New School, said in a statement that "it is inappropriate to talk about a matter involving one of our trustees, particularly while we are still gathering all the facts." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 3730 Dead Posted August 30, 2007 Share Posted August 30, 2007 On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 05:58:44 -0700, PissingOffTheLeft@excite.com wrote: >"Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case >By MIKE McINTIRE and LESLIE EATON >Published: August 30, 2007 >Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign said yesterday that it would >give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic >donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after >learning that the authorities in California had a warrant for his >arrest stemming from a 1991 fraud case." >(Democ)RATS! YOU WILL BE STUPID ENOUGH TO NOMINATE HER!!!!!!!!!! >http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/us/politics/30bundler.html?ex=1189051200&en=00ee337c9e083c5f&ei=5099&partner=TOPIXNEWS >The donor, Norman Hsu, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for >Democratic candidates since 2003, and was slated to be co-host next >month for a Clinton gala featuring the entertainer Quincy Jones. Gosh, you would THINK those "law and order Republicans" would have picked him up at some point over the past six years, what we him being a federal fugitive out in plain sight and all. Isn't Homeland Security supposed to be an falible protection against criminals and terrorists? > >The event would not have been unusual for Mr. Hsu, a businessman from >Hong Kong who moves in circles of power and influence, serving on the >board of a university in New York and helping to bankroll Democratic >campaigns. > >But what was not widely known was that Mr. Hsu, who is in the apparel >business in New York, has been considered a fugitive since he failed >to show up in a San Mateo County courtroom about 15 years ago to be >sentenced for his role in a scheme to defraud investors, according to >the California attorney general's office. > >Mr. Hsu had pleaded no contest to one count of grand theft and was >facing up to three years in prison. > >The travails of Mr. Hsu have proved an embarrassment for the Clinton >campaign, which has strived to project an image of rectitude in its >fund-raising and to dispel any lingering shadows of past episodes of >tainted contributions. > >Already, Mrs. Clinton's opponents were busy trying to rekindle >remembrances of the 1996 Democratic fund-raising scandals, in which >Asian moneymen were accused of funneling suspect donations into >Democratic coffers as President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al >Gore were running for re-election. > >Some Clinton donors said yesterday that they did not expect the Hsu >matter to hurt Mrs. Clinton unless a pattern of problematic fund- >raising or compromised donors emerged, which would raise questions >about the campaign's vetting of donors. Mr. Hsu's legal problems were >first reported yesterday by The Los Angeles Times; The Wall Street >Journal reported Tuesday about his bundling of questionable >contributions. > >"Everyone is trying to make the implications that it's Chinese money, >that it's the Al Gore thing all over again, but I haven't seen any >proof of that," said John A. Catsimatidis, a leading donor and fund- >raiser for Mrs. Clinton in New York. > >Some donations connected to Mr. Hsu raise questions about his bundling >activities, although there is no evidence he did anything improper. >The Wall Street Journal reported that contributors he solicited >included members of an extended family in Daly City, Calif., who had >given $213,000 to candidates since 2004, even though some of them did >not appear to have much money. > >A lawyer for Mr. Hsu, E. Lawrence Barcella Jr., has said that Mr. Hsu >was not the source of any of the money he raised from other people, >which would be a violation of federal election laws. > >On his own, Mr. Hsu wrote checks totaling $255,970 to a variety of >Democratic candidates and committees since 2004. Even though he was a >bundler for Mrs. Clinton, his largess was spread across the Democratic >Party and included $5,000 to the political action committee of Senator >Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois. > >Last month, Mr. Hsu was among the honored guests at a fund-raiser for >Representative Patrick J. Kennedy, Democrat of Rhode Island, given by >Stephen A. Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group at the New York Yacht >Club. > >Al Franken, a Democratic Senate candidate in Minnesota, said he would >divest his campaign of Mr. Hsu's donations, as did Representatives >Michael M. Honda and Doris O. Matsui of California and Representative >Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania, all Democrats. > >Mr. Hsu's success on the political circuit was not always matched by >success in business. > >Born and raised in Hong Kong, Mr. Hsu came to the United States when >he was 18 to attend the University of California, Berkeley, as a >computer science major. He later received an M.B.A. at the Wharton >School at the University of Pennsylvania, according to a brief >biography that appeared in apparel industry trade publications in >1986. > >With a group of partners from Hong Kong, Mr. Hsu started a sportswear >company in 1982 called Laveno that went bankrupt two years later, not >long after he left the company. From that, he cycled through several >other enterprises, mostly men's sportswear, under the Wear This, Base >and Foreign Exchange labels. > >Mr. Hsu's career hit a low in 1989, when he began raising $1 million >from investors as part of a plan to buy and resell latex gloves. > >Ronald Smetana, a lawyer with the California attorney general's >office, said Mr. Hsu was charged with stealing the investors' money >after it turned out he never bought any gloves and had no contract to >resell them. > >When Mr. Hsu was to attend a sentencing hearing, he faxed a letter to >his lawyer saying he had to leave town for an emergency and asking >that the court date be rescheduled, Mr. Smetana said. > >He failed to show up for the rescheduled appearance, and a bench >warrant was issued for his arrest. That was the last that prosecutors >saw of Mr. Hsu. > >"We assumed he would go back to Hong Kong, where he could recede into >anonymity," Mr. Smetana said. > >The California attorney general's office declined to comment on how it >intends to pursue Mr. Hsu. > >Mr. Hsu issued a statement yesterday, saying he was "surprised to >learn that there appears to be an outstanding warrant" and insisting >that he had "not sought to evade any of my obligations and certainly >not the law." > >"I would not consciously subject any of the candidates and causes in >which I believe to any harm through my actions," he said. > >At some point, Mr. Hsu resurfaced in New York, where he was connected >to several clothing-related businesses, according to campaign finance >records, which list his occupation variously as an apparel consultant, >clothing designer, retailer or company president. He also began to >donate to the Democratic Party, and arranged for friends to do the >same. > >He has been referred to in news accounts of campaign fund-raising >events as an "apparel magnate" and his quick rise in the New York >political and social scene - as well as his open checkbook - >catapulted him into the big leagues. > >He became a trustee at the New School and was elected to the Board of >Governors of Eugene Lang College there. He endowed a scholarship in >his name at the college and was co-chairman of a benefit awards dinner >in 2006 that featured Mrs. Clinton, who had secured a $950,000 earmark >for a mentoring program at the college for disadvantaged city youths. > >Asked yesterday about Mr. Hsu, Brian Krapf, a spokesman for the New >School, said in a statement that "it is inappropriate to talk about a >matter involving one of our trustees, particularly while we are still >gathering all the facts." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Topaz Posted August 31, 2007 Share Posted August 31, 2007 Goebbels speech on March 18, 1933: "German women, German men ! It is a happy accident that my first speech since taking charge of the Ministry for Propaganda and People's Enlightenment is to German women. Although I agree with Treitschke that men make history, I do not forget that women raise boys to manhood. You know that the National Socialist movement is the only party that keeps women out of daily politics. This arouses bitter criticism and hostility, all of it very unjustified. We have kept women out of the parliamentary-democratic intrigues of the past fourteen years in Germany not because we do not respect them, but because we respect them too much. We do not see the woman as inferior, rather as having a different mission, a different value, than that of the man. Therefore we believed that the German woman, who more than any other in the world is a woman in the best sense of the word, should use her strength and abilities in other areas than the man. The woman has always been not only the man's sexual companion, but also his fellow worker. Long ago, she did heavy labor with the man in the field. She moved with him into the cities, entering the offices and factories, doing her share of the work for which she was best suited. She did this with all her abilities, her loyalty, her selfless devotion, her readiness to sacrifice. The woman in public life today is no different than the women of the past. No one who understands the modern age would have the crazy idea of driving women from public life, from work, profession, and bread winning. But it must also be said that those things that belong to the man must remain his. That includes politics and the military. That is not to disparage women, only a recognition of how she can best use her talents and abilities. Looking back over the past year's of Germany's decline, we come to the frightening, nearly terrifying conclusion, that the less German men were willing to act as men in public life, the more women succumbed to the temptation to fill the role of the man. The feminization of men always leads to the masculinization of women. An age in which all great idea of virtue, of steadfastness, of hardness and determination have been forgotten should not be surprised that the man gradually loses his leading role in life and politics and government to the woman. It may be unpopular to say this to an audience of women, but it must be said, because it is true and because it will help make clear our attitude toward women. The modern age, with all its vast revolutionary transformations in government, politics, economics and social relations has not left women and their role in public life untouched. Things we thought impossible several years or decades ago are now everyday reality. Some good, noble and commendable things have happened. But also things that are contemptible and humiliating. These revolutionary transformations have largely taken from women their proper tasks. Their eyes were set in directions that were not appropriate for them. The result was a distorted public view of German womanhood that had nothing to do with former ideals. A fundamental change is necessary. At the risk of sounding reactionary and outdated, let me say this clearly: The first, best, and most suitable place for the women is in the family, and her most glorious duty is to give children to her people and nation, children who can continue the line of generations and who guarantee the immortality of the nation. The woman is the teacher of the youth, and therefore the builder of the foundation of the future. If the family is the nation's source of strength, the woman is its core and center. The best place for the woman to serve her people is in her marriage, in the family, in motherhood. This is her highest mission. That does not mean that those women who are employed or who have no children have no role in the motherhood of the German people. They use their strength, their abilities, their sense of responsibility for the nation, in other ways. We are convinced, however, that the first task of a socially reformed nation must be to again give the woman the possibility to fulfill her real task, her mission in the family and as a mother. The national revolutionary government is everything but reactionary. It does not want to stop the pace of our rapidly moving age. It has no intention of lagging behind the times. It wants to be the flag bearer and pathfinder of the future. We know the demands of the modern age. But that does not stop us from seeing that every age has its roots in motherhood, that there is nothing of greater importance than the living mother of a family who gives the state children. German women have been transformed in recent years. They are beginning to see that they are not happier as a result of being given more rights but fewer duties. They now realize that the right to be elected to public office at the expense of the right to life, motherhood and her daily bread is not a good trade. A characteristic of the modern era is a rapidly declining birthrate in our big cities. In 1900 two million babies were born in Germany. Now the number has fallen to one million. This drastic decline is most evident in the national capital. In the last fourteen years, Berlin's birthrate has become the lowest of any European city. By 1955, without emigration, it will have only about three million inhabitants. The government is determined to halt this decline of the family and the resulting impoverishment of our blood. There must be a fundamental change. The liberal attitude toward the family and the child is responsible for Germany's rapid decline. We today must begin worrying about an aging population. In 1900 there were seven children for each elderly person, today it is only four. If current trends continue, by 1988 the ratio will be 1 : 1. These statistics say it all. They are the best proof that if Germany continues along its current path, it will end in an abyss with breathtaking speed. We can almost determine the decade when Germany collapses because of depopulation. We are not willing to stand aside and watch the collapse of our national life and the destruction of the blood we have inherited. The national revolutionary government has the duty to rebuilt the nation on its original foundations, to transform the life and work of the woman so that it once again best serves the national good. It intends to eliminate the social inequalities so that once again the life of our people and the future of our people and the immortality of our blood is assured..." http://www.ihr.org/ http://www.natvan.com http://www.thebirdman.org http://www.nsm88.com/ http://wsi.matriots.com/jews.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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