Hsu disappears

LA Times:

A warrant was issued this morning for Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu, who failed to appear this morning for a bail hearing on a 15-year-old grand theft charge.

Superior Court Judge Robert Foiles ordered Hsu, a major fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, to be held without bail should he make an appearance. Last week, he was released after posting $2 million bail.

Hsu's attorney James Brosnahan, explained that he had lost contact with Hsu and that the financier had failed to deliver his passport as promised.

"Mr. Hsu is not here and we don't know where he is," Brosnahan said outside court. "We expected him to be here."

Brosnahan told Foiles that a legal assistant for his law firm went to Hsu's New York City condominium last week and spent 90 minutes searching for Hsu's passport.

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I guess he has a lot to hide and to hide from. It was surprising that he was allowed to make bail to begin with since he was a convicted felon who had already skipped out on his sentence. Did his lawyers collect their fee in advance? This is one reason why they usually do. It also shows the partial wisdom of the judge who raised the bail to $2 million. Greater wisdom would have denied it altogether. It is eerily similar to the Chinese donors of 1996 who skipped the country in droves to avoid the investigations of that Clinton campaign. There is still a lot of interesting investigations to be done on his flow of funds including his source of funds. He is making this a growing scandal that will color all the Democrats who took money he happened to be the conduit for. Hopefully none of the others who are caught up case will get the chance to run away.

Gateway Pundit has a big roundup on Hsu's flight.