The head of an ethical and legal watchdog group is angered that Hillary Clinton is being given a pass by the media and U.S. prosecutors regarding her involvement with convicted con artist and former million-dollar Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu.
Jurors in Manhattan federal court recently heard a voicemail message from then-Senator Hillary Clinton to her former top fundraiser Norman Hsu, who has pled guilty to a $20 billion Ponzi scheme that involved misleading investors about his contacts with key Democratic leaders.
In the voicemail, Clinton was effusive in her praise of Hsu, suggesting she would win the Democratic presidential primary because he “single-handedly” would make it happen. Clinton said she had “lots of love” for him and that she had “never seen anybody who has been more loyal and more effective.”
Tom Fitton is president of Judicial Watch, a Washington, DC-based group that investigates political corruption and made a name for itself probing Clinton administration scandals. He says it is hard to believe Hillary Clinton’s top advisers did not have suspicions about Hsu.
“When politicians get these new major donors, all sorts of bells [and] alarms ought to go off,” Fitton argues. “And especially given the Clinton’s track record of illegal fundraising — not only from Chinese communist sources, but basically just misleading and misusing ethnic communities to raise money — they should have been aware that this Hsu was someone who needed not only a second look, but a third and fourth look.
“And I think they didn’t care,” he concludes. “And I think the view of politicians is ‘Give us the money and we’ll deal with the fallout later.’”
Fitton says although the audiotape is not likely to be very damaging to Secretary of State Clinton, it is further confirmation that she was misleading the American people when she claimed she did not have much contact with Norman Hsu and did not know about his background.
