Ohio Democrats, including Strickland, return money from fundraiser charged with grand theft, and now facing warrant
Hsu: jailed on a $2 million bond
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Ted Strickland is among two Ohio Democrats returning thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from a top Democratic fundraiser who turned himself in Friday in California, where he had been a fugitive for more than 15 years.
Strickland and Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner accepted contributions last year from New York apparel executive Norman Hsu. Also, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is returning money from people reportedly associated with Hsu.
In 1991, Hsu pleaded no contest to a single felony count of grand theft but failed to appear in court for sentencing, a revelation this week that prompted U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to return $23,000 in contributions that Hsu made to her presidential and senatorial campaigns and to HillPac, her political action committee. He was jailed Friday on a $2 million bond.
Strickland is donating $10,000 that he received from Hsu to the Ohio Association of Second Harvest Foodbanks, while Brunner is giving $3,000 from Hsu to the American Red Cross in Findlay with the hope it will be earmarked for flood relief, their spokesmen said Thursday.
Brown is donating $750 each to Jobs with Justice in Columbus and to the Lorain Free Clinic, a spokeswoman said. Brown didn't report any contributions directly from Hsu but from others reportedly associated with him, including William Paw of Daly City, Calif.
Paw is a San Francisco mail carrier who gave maximum donations to several of the same candidates supported by Hsu. The Wall Street Journal this week said the family of William Paw lives in a modest home that Hsu once listed as belonging to him.
Hsu's Washington attorney, E. Lawrence Barcella Jr., has disputed suggestions that Hsu had any hand in improperly directing contributions from other donors.
Other prominent Democrats nationwide, including presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, also have said they are giving up Hsu's donations to their campaigns.
Toledo may have its own Tom Noe. Lets take a real close study of Czarlton, his henchmen and supporters see if there are any similarities
Oh my God! Another governor of Ohio gave a political hack tens of millions of dollars with no over site so he can
You are destin to do it again.
I'd say closer to a Tom Noe connection would be Geofrey Feiger (I don't know if that's how it's spelled) the attorney who gained notoriety for the Dr. Kevorkian trial.
Mr. Feiger allegedly gave employees and associates money to donate to the Kerry campaign and reimbursed them in the form of bonuses and gifts after they donated the money. Federal investigators contend that Mr. Feiger tried to not only circumvent campaign finance laws but also tried to obstruct justice during the investigation.
Charges have been brought down but it'll take a while to sort out. It was in the Detroit Free Press about 3 weeks ago.
MikeyA
Did Feiger use tax payer money to do this?
...residuals from "My Sharona".
Ironic :)