Captain's Quarters -

This does indeed seem astonishingly foolish--given Hsu's record, it's hard to imagine any honest judge allowing him to bail.

Then again, it's been said that people get the government they deserve. Clearly this includes the judiciary.

Perhaps the judge sees Hsu as a potential cash cash because if he jumps bail on 5 million, Hsu forfeits the cash and the county/state gets a windfall!

This is the height of lunacy: a man who has jumped bail TWICE should not be permitted bail under any circumstances, and a prisoner who has allegedly attempted suicide, should be under a 24/7 suicide watch in jail.

The interests of justice require that Runaway Hsu be isolated and protected until federal and state investigators have had their way with him, and then he needs to be in California state prison system protective custody (under suicide watch) for his entire term, and then under the same conditions for the federal and state term(s) he'll be serving for his other frauds.

We also need to ask judge Raaum some tough questions, namely what is the current rate to get bail for a repeated bail jumper with the high level Democratic connections?

I meant cash cow! It's easy money baby! Plus Hillary's minions get another crack at plugging the crack in the dam.

Something is rotten in California.

CatoRenasci,
I'd skip the suicide watch part.

TomB,

I would disagree on the basis of "Dead men tell no tales" and this is a tale which needs telling.

I suspect many of the same team that sought to destroy the lives of women who enjoyed the attentions of Bill and put together the deal to trade our national security interests for Chinese money are hard at work now in making sure Hsu stays accessible so they can "contact" him.

And certainly there seems to be plenty of people in the judicial system willing to accommodate such people in the interests of assuring Hillary and the Dems are not damaged -- for the good of the country, of course.

OK, here's the burning question: how did he fit that many zeros after the 6 in that little tiny space in the check register?

Remember that the Alberto Gonzalez Justice Department also dropped the federal unlawful flight charges against Hsu as well, opening the door to the Colorado state judge to spring Hsu.

As to why a Colorado state judge would grant bail to a two-time bail jumper and obvious flight risk, I have to think that either the judge has been reached, or that the Clintons have their game plan-- Hsu will plead an insanity defense, and act the role-- or both.

Anyone attempting to interrogate Hsu now will get the wide-eyed, gurgling, babble of insanity. Psychosis can be induced with the right drugs-- or Hsu can take lessons in faking craziness from our own incarcerated mobsters here in New York. "Analyze This", Part III!

Oh, and thanks for the heads-up on the insanity defense, Shipley. Had any good Manchurian food lately?

The biggest threat to Hsu is not the American legal system; as soon as he is free on bail, the predators representing the interests of very powerful people, will hunt this man down and kill him. Absolutely "NO" way does this man stay alive.

Stay on this story CE; don't let the dirty Dems off the hook. Hsu is the example of typical "mode of operation" for the dirty Dems. "Those damn Conservatives will make a big fuss over this, then it will blow over as it always does with those people".

Watch as the MSM and the dirty Dems try to manufacture something to get our attention off Hsu long enough for them to rid the world of Hsu. Get rid of this Hsu, just to replace him with another piece of Pu.

Cross-posted from my other comment:

The insanity defense! From day one, Hsu was crazy, roaming the halls of Clinton campaign headquarters without shoes and no shirt, and a suitcase full of crack or meth, and no one in the Clinton campaign noticed?

Or maybe that got him dates with Clinton staffers?

So who appointed or financed this state judge? You mean to say the Feds could not force Hsu to stay in the slammer? I agree, he won't be around long. Why he went along with the bail is another story.

Dead Man Walking

Dead man's Hsu on the Zepher? Sounds like we need Hercule Poirot on the case..."But of course! What Hsu was found?"

Who needs to make 30 withdrawals of just under 10k to give cash to their maids? People can be eccentric with their resources can't they?

Bong boy, sure "People can be eccentric with their resources"
Problem being, Hsu was being eccentric with other people's money. You do realize he's a convicted con man, don't you?

From the Belmont Club:

"Colorado law requires that bond be set in all cases but capital murder, and even then only when proof is evident and the presumptions great. I am sworn to enforce the law of Colorado. A $4,000,000 would quadruple the highest bond ever set in this jurisdiction. That having been said, I am now in possession of a lot more information about Mr. Hsu and his history. I would very much like to ask for no bond, but such in illegal under the law of my state. Rest assured, however, that I now will be asking the judge to set it a goo[d] deal higher than the $4,000,000 I had earlier contemplated."

In the event, Hautzinger asked for a $50 million bond, but the judge reduced it to $5 million.

I think we need to start directing the ridicule towards the Colorado state legislature.

So people that make their resources legitimately and then skirt the law, using those resources to buy controlled substances are somehow excused? Hmmm.

But Captain Ed sputter, sputter, sputter...if'n he runs away and forfeits the bail that only leaves $1,000,000.00 fer the lawyers...think they will allow that. He's essentially broke as far as they're concerned unless he has some hidden off-shore accounts.Poor man, really, he's boxin shadows.

Boy, put the bong down, you make no sense.

The explanation of the Colorado prosecutor gets him and the state judge off the hook, but still doesn't explain the U.S. Justice Department decision to drop the federal unlawful flight charge. A federal judge could have ordered Hsu held.

Has Hsu (or the Clintons) reached someone high up in the Administration? Is it just Gonzalez incompetence? Or have the Justice Department professionals lost their nerve, because Hillary's Attorney General may be their new boss? That also could explain why Sandy Burglar walked with a hand-slap.

Sorry to change the focus, guys, but given these extraordinary facts and the depths of Hsu's penetration of the Democrat Party (and one woeful Republican), the failure of the feds to prosecute Hsu just doesn't add up.

All I'm saying is Ed asked a question about why someone, inferring something nefarious, sans-indictment, would need to handle their liquid resources in such a manner. I brought up the example of Rush Limbaugh and his unusual behavior of making at least 30 withdrawals of cash just under 10k, skirting the law for which that behavior was specifically designed to monitor, and no indictment or charges were ever brought against him. I think Ed's statements are hyperbolic and prejudicial. This of course is necessary to try to get the momentum up for the authorities to investigate Mrs. Clinton. So let's wait for the indictment, investigation, everyone's explanations and THEN see if this is White Water albatross I'm sure many of you hope that it will be.

"Rush Limbaugh and his unusual behavior of making at least 30 withdrawals of cash just under 10k, skirting the law for which that behavior was specifically designed to monitor,"

Ah, see, now with some facts I can understand you. Rush making those withdrawals was entirely legal. What statute, and I want a specific citation, makes it illegal to make 30 withdrawals of $9,000?

Exactly, what makes it illegal to have 6 million in one's checking account? Here is a link for you to read and then ask yourself why Rush didn't just withdraw his cash in larger increments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act

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Bong boy:
1) Hsu pled guilty to fraud
2) He fled from being sentenced to 3 years in prison

Now it appears he may be involved in violating campaign contribution laws and fraud and oh yes, fleeing from being sentenced again.

Do you understand that Hsu is a criminal? Why are you so eager to change the subject that Hillary Clinton is repeating the campaign financing problems that her hubby had? Especially ones involving foreign nationals?

There has been no mention of any of this scandal on my local news station (WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA) nor on their website. When I sent an e-mail to inquire about the absence of news, here's the reply I received:
"Hope all is well! I've (sic) haven't found any state politicians who've received money from Hsu. Can you offer any guidance? I'm interested in doing the story if there is one."
signed: Richmond Bureau Chief

So, once again, we're told there is nothing to see here-- just move along.

I'm still-- Incredulous

The Captain asks: "Who keeps $6 million in a checking account? FDIC/FSLIC only insures to $100,000,...."

Good question, but on the risk scale I'm guessing a bank failure ranks well behind say, ball-and-socket trauma or other extralegal collection techniques favored by certain irritable creditors. It's not like this guy's most troublesome payable is to Blockbuster for an overdue Jackie Chan video.

The most interesting development over the past few days is that two major swindles he has reportedly been involved with, one with a New York investment fund, and another ABC7 is reporting about in Orange County, CA, strongly suggest that none of the funds he has available -- including the $6 million in the checking account -- are really his funds at all.

In fact, according to the attorney for the New York investment fund, they are even asking Democrats who received the contributions not to return them or donate them to charity, but to preserve them to help cover the losses of the swindled investors!

One can imagine they will also be seeking process, either in Colorado, or elsewhere to prevent Hsu from posting bail using the funds in that checking account. They already lost $2 million with his first train ride.

Look I'm not changing the subject. Let all the investigations lead to where they may. I understand this guy is a convicted felon. I understand the perception that the MSM is ignoring this. OK, that being said, my comments have been premised around Ed's comment about the 6 million in a checking account and the air of nefariousness he has projected upon the case by noting unseemly circumstantial evidence. I have mentioned before that I think this is being presented as a situation that possibly could become an albatross of the White Water variety for the Clintons. That I think is wishful thinking. My comments about Rush Limbaugh and his 30 withdrawals of just under 10K , to me are precisely the same arguments used by the Left, and dismissed by the Right, now and at the time, that this was somehow nefarious and I had just as many unanswered questions at the time regarding Rush's predicament as Ed has now regarding Mr. Hsu. i was trying to point out the hypocrisy as I saw it. Ed's conjecture just opened the door. Did Rush get indicted? No. Will, Mrs. Clinton, will shall see. Don't get your hopes up. I'd try getting a real candidate to challenge the Democrats before I'd start trying to take them down for what I think will be minor , careless infractions. No autopsy, no foul.

fly/bong's closed Q&A:"Did Rush get indicted? No," is technically correct, but deceptively facile. Limbaugh, while not indicted, was indeed charged(by the alternative procedure of criminal information), with a single count of "prescription fraud." And although discrete charges of money laundering were never lodged, it's worth recalling that the entire matter was disposed of in a pre-trial agreement. Thus, the role, if any, which the potential money laundering counts may have played in the agreed upon outcome remain in the realm of speculation.

As to whether Norman's substantial checking account balance is deserving of an "air of nefariousness," I have not a clue; perhaps a simple reserve for prodigious helpings of mu Hsu pork.

The reason HSU couldn't use the 6 mill to flee is that most likely that money is from other Democrat victory interested parties. IE Soros, and the Chinese PLA. It's most likely money he wasn't able to launder to the Dems, or was scheduled to be laundered later before he was exposed.

$40 million @#@#???? Shrewed investors would check the companies back ground before pouring that liquid. But again to some $40 million is just a drip.

The 40 million smells very odd to me. No competent fund would give out 40 mil without checking carefully the company they were givign it to. It is also very convinient that the fund finds out they have been scammed 2 weeks after Hsu is exposed. Looks like someone laundering money to evade campaign giving limits.

To Incredulous | September 14, 2007 12:47 PM

Perhaps your "no-name" friend – aka, Richmond Bureau Chief -- at the Roanoke T.V Station, WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA, is not a very avid reader.

If he (or she) was, he/she would likely have come across this Wall Street Journal article from way back on August 30th, which details the contributions from the 6-member Paw family, plus Norman Hsu himself. Other Hsu-related links can be found here.

By no stretch of the imagination, does this include all the Hsu-related contributors from his considerable bundling schemes, but it is instructive. There were (according to Hillary Clinton’s campaign) 260 separate contributors Hsu had bundled for her campaign, not just the 6-member Paw family.

And, that number may well go up.

But just including the contributions from the “Paws and Hsu” list, it seems your newly-elected senator, Jim Webb, took $3,500 from just those Hsu-related contributors, the DCCC took $15,000, no doubt some of which went to Virginia candidates, the DSCC took a whopping $117,500, much of which was sent to Mr. Webb to assist him in his 2006 race.

And, the last time I checked, Democrats Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson would each like to be the President of the United States, which includes the Commonwealth of Virginia. And every one of them – according to this partial list -- has directly taken some of these Hsu-related contributions.

Hillary, of course, stands the deepest in this Hsu scandal. (Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

I’ll just bet several of those 260 Hsu-bundled contributors are residents of the Old Dominion! You think?

So . . . what the devil is the Richmond Bureau Chief talking about?

Oh, and just for fun, in the former portion of Virginia that became the separate state of West Virginia, substantial Hsu-related contributions (from this partial list) -- $15,700 -- went to your neighbor, good old Senator Jay Rockefeller.

To Incredulous | September 14, 2007 12:47 PM

Perhaps your "no-name" friend – aka, Richmond Bureau Chief -- at the Roanoke T.V Station, WDBJ7 in Roanoke, VA, is not a very avid reader.

If he (or she) was, he/she would likely have come across this Wall Street Journal article from way back on August 30th, which details the contributions from the 6-member Paw family, plus Norman Hsu himself. Other Hsu-related links can be found here.

By no stretch of the imagination, does this include all the Hsu-related contributors from his considerable bundling schemes, but it is instructive. There were (according to Hillary Clinton’s campaign) 260 separate contributors Hsu had bundled for her campaign, not just the 6-member Paw family.

And, that number may well go up.

But just including the contributions from the “Paws and Hsu” list, it seems your newly-elected senator, Jim Webb, took $3,500 from just those Hsu-related contributors, the DCCC took $15,000, no doubt some of which went to Virginia candidates, the DSCC took a whopping $117,500, much of which was sent to Mr. Webb to assist him in his 2006 race.

And, the last time I checked, Democrats Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson would each like to be the President of the United States, which includes the Commonwealth of Virginia. And every one of them – according to this partial list -- has directly taken some of these Hsu-related contributions.

Hillary, of course, stands the deepest in this Hsu scandal. (Sorry, I couldn't resist!)

I’ll just bet several of those 260 Hsu-bundled contributors are residents of the Old Dominion! You think?

So . . . what the devil is the Richmond Bureau Chief talking about?

Oh, and just for fun, in the former portion of Virginia that became the separate state of West Virginia, substantial Hsu-related contributions (from this partial list) -- $15,700 -- went to your neighbor, good old Senator Jay Rockefeller.

And, Incredulous, you could also send your anonymous "Richmond Bureau Chief" pal at WDBJ7 this little gem from the Sunday, September 16, 2007 Richmond Times Dispatch.

It's pretty clear somebody down there in the media is paying attention. Captain Ed has also given us an update today on the Washington Post story.