The Clinton campaign finally decides to give something back.
WASHINGTON -- Confronted with new evidence that it had ignored warnings about fundraiser Norman Hsu, Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign abruptly announced late today that it was returning $850,000 from 260 donors associated with Hsu.
The announcement was made five minutes after the Los Angeles Times asked Clinton officials to respond to mid-June campaign e-mails the newspaper obtained that dismissed concerns about Hsu and his business practices.
I'm quite sure the campaign was "shocked, shocked" that the money might be tainted. Given the past Clinton campaign fundraising history, however, doubts are warranted.
Hsu, 56, has contributed or raised more than $1.2 million for Clinton and other Democrats -- one of the party's leading fundraisers. But Hsu became a source of embarrassment after The Times revealed in late August that he was a fugitive wanted on a 15-year-old bench warrant stemming from an early 1990s investment fraud case. He called the matter a misunderstanding, then failed to show at a San Mateo County hearing and was rearrested last week in Colorado after falling ill there on an eastbound train.
I wonder what he was buying? Just as problematic as his fugitive status is that he appears to have blackmailed people into donating.
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