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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (18680)	12/7/2007 6:41:21 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 224760

And Bosnia ?

To: American Spirit who wrote (18680)	12/7/2007 7:47:14 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224760

Bundle of trouble for Hillary Friday, December 7, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle On Tuesday, a federal grand jury indicted Norman Hsu - a businessman who pledged to raise more than $100,000 for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign - on six counts of mail fraud, six counts of wire fraud and three counts of breaking federal election law. A jury can later decide whether Hsu has broken any federal laws. Before then, Hsu will have to account for fleeing the United States after he pleaded no contest in 1992 in San Mateo to defrauding investors of $1 million. Hsu boasted that former President Bill Clinton was an investment client - which the Clinton team denies. Hsu earned the coveted title "Hillraiser" for pledging to raise big money for Clinton. He was so successful that Clinton's campaign chose to return $850,000 of bundled contributions, some to low-wage immigrant workers - identified as cooks, servers, two cashiers and a dishwasher - who seemed to be in no position to write $1,000 checks to a politician. Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson told the media the campaign returned the donations out of "an abundance of caution." That caution was late in coming. Bill Clinton's presidency was marred by re-election campaign finance excesses that led more than 20 donors to plead guilty, be convicted or flee the country. Big donor Johnny Chung, who pleaded guilty to making illegal contributions to Democrats, explained, "I see the White House as like a subway - you have to put in coins to open the gates." Clinton should have directed her team to make sure not to repeat the mistakes of 1996. But the Hsu episode has all the markings of a bad sequel. This article appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle