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Hillary Clinton's Communist Chinese Fundraisers

An unlikely treasure-trove of donors for Clinton

The candidate's unparalleled fundraising success relies largely on the
least-affluent residents of New York's Chinatown -- some of whom can't be
tracked down.

By Peter Nicholas and Tom Hamburger
Los Angeles Times Staff Writers

October 19, 2007

NEW YORK - Something remarkable happened at 44 Henry St., a grimy Chinatown
tenement with peeling walls. It also happened nearby at a dimly lighted
apartment building with trash bins clustered by the front door.

And again not too far away, at 88 E. Broadway beneath the Manhattan bridge,
where vendors chatter in Mandarin and Fujianese as they hawk rubber sandals
and bargain-basement clothes.

All three locations, along with scores of others scattered throughout some
of the poorest Chinese neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, have
been swept by an extraordinary impulse to shower money on one particular
presidential candidate -- Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Dishwashers, waiters and others whose jobs and dilapidated home addresses
seem to make them unpromising targets for political fundraisers are pouring
$1,000 and $2,000 contributions into Clinton's campaign treasury. In April,
a single fundraiser in an area long known for its gritty urban poverty
yielded a whopping $380,000. When Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) ran for
president in 2004, he received $24,000 from Chinatown.

At this point in the presidential campaign cycle, Clinton has raised more
money than any candidate in history. Those dishwashers, waiters and street
stall hawkers are part of the reason. And Clinton's success in gathering
money from Chinatown's least-affluent residents stems from a two-pronged
strategy: mutually beneficial alliances with powerful groups, and appeals to
the hopes and dreams of people now consigned to the margins.

Clinton has enlisted the aid of Chinese neighborhood associations,
especially those representing recent immigrants from Fujian province. The
organizations, at least one of which is a descendant of Chinatown criminal
enterprises that engaged in gambling and human trafficking, exert enormous
influence over immigrants. The associations help them with everything from
protection against crime to obtaining green cards.

Many of Clinton's Chinatown donors said they had contributed because leaders
in neighborhood associations told them to. In some cases, donors said they
felt pressure to give.

The other piece of the strategy involves holding out hope that, if Clinton
becomes president, she will move quickly to reunite families and help
illegal residents move toward citizenship. As New York's junior senator,
Clinton has expressed support for immigrants and greater family
reunification. She is also benefiting from Chinese donors' naive notions of
what she could do in the White House.

Campaign concerns

As with other campaigns looking for dollars in unpromising places, the
Clinton operation also has accepted what it later conceded were improper
donations. At least one reported donor denies making a contribution. Another
admitted to lacking the legal-resident status required for giving campaign
money.

Clinton aides said they were concerned about some of the Chinatown
contributions.

"We have hundreds of thousands of donors. We are proud to have support from
across New York and the country from many different communities," campaign
spokesman Howard Wolfson said. "In this instance, our own compliance process
flagged a number of questionable donations and took the appropriate steps to
be sure they were legally given. In cases where we couldn't confirm that,
the money was returned."

The Times examined the cases of more than 150 donors who provided checks to
Clinton after fundraising events geared to the Chinese community. One-third
of those donors could not be found using property, telephone or business
records. Most have not registered to vote, according to public records.

And several dozen were described in financial reports as holding jobs --
including dishwasher, server or chef -- that would normally make it
difficult to donate amounts ranging from $500 to the legal maximum of $2,300
per election.

Of 74 residents of New York's Chinatown, Flushing, the Bronx or Brooklyn
that The Times called or visited, only 24 could be reached for comment.

Many said they gave to Clinton because they were instructed to do so by
local association leaders. Some said they wanted help on immigration
concerns. And several spoke of the pride they felt by being associated with
a powerful figure such as Clinton.

New take, old game

Beyond what it reveals about present-day campaign fundraising, Chinatown's
newfound role in the 2008 election cycle marks another chapter in the
centuries-old American saga of marginalized ethnic groups and newly arrived
immigrants turning to politics to improve their lot.

In earlier times, New York politicians from William "Boss" Tweed to Fiorello
LaGuardia gained power with the support of immigrants. So did politicians in
Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago and other big cities.

Like many who traveled this path, most of the Chinese reported as
contributing to Clinton's campaign have never voted. Many speak little or no
English. Some seem to lead such ephemeral lives that neighbors say they've
never heard of them.

"This is a new game," said Peter Kwong, a professor at Hunter College in New
York who studies Chinatown communities across the country. Historically,
Kwong said, "voting in Chinatown is so weak" that politicians did not go out
of their way to court residents.

"Today it is all about money," he said.

The effort is especially pronounced among groups in the Fujianese community.
More than a decade ago, Fujianese cultural associations ran gambling
operations and, more ominously, at least one was home to a gang that
trafficked in illegal Fujian native immigrants.

The human-smuggling problem came to a head in 1993, when a cargo ship, the
Golden Venture, ran aground off New York City. As shocked police and
immigration officials looked on, hundreds of Fujian natives who had spent
weeks below deck struggled to make it to shore. Several died in the attempt.

A crackdown by the FBI's organized-crime task force led to the indictment of
more than 20 Fujian native traffickers. Today, the problem has substantially
dissipated, says Konrad Motyka of the FBI's New York field office, who
participated in the investigation of the Golden Venture.

Although Motyka is wary of the havoc wreaked in the past by Fujianese
organized crime, he said: "I welcome signs that the community is
participating in politics."

High hopes

At his tiny restaurant in the south Bronx, which has one table and a takeout
counter, Chang Jian Lin displays a prized memento: a photo of himself and
Clinton. The picture was taken at a fundraising banquet in Chinatown this
spring.

Lin and his wife, who also works in the restaurant, said through an
interpreter that they believe Clinton, if elected president, will reunite
their family. The Lins' two teenage children remain in Fujian, a mountainous
coastal province in southeastern China opposite Taiwan.

"If she gets to be the president, we want our children to come home," Chang
Jian Lin said.

Campaign officials point out that Clinton has sponsored legislation aimed at
family reunification; the proposals failed. And immigration measures being
discussed in Congress would assign a lower priority to family reunification,
which tends to bring in poor people, and give preference to immigrants with
more-lucrative job skills.

Moreover, the Lins appeared to have an exaggerated impression of a
president's ability to change such things as immigration laws
single-handedly.

Kwong thinks Clinton may be "exploiting the vulnerabilities of recent
immigrants."

Nonetheless, Lin is planning to attend another Clinton fundraiser, a
birthday bash next week. He said his support rested on more than his hope
for reuniting his family. "Besides the immigration issue with my kids, the
overall standard of living will improve for the Chinese people" living in
the U.S., he said.

He has never before supported a U.S. politician and, not yet a citizen, he
is barred from voting. But when Fujianese community leaders asked him to
donate to Clinton, he said, he eagerly contributed $1,000. Immigrants who
have permanent resident status can legally make campaign contributions.

Coming up with the money was hard, Lin acknowledged, adding: "The restaurant
is really small."

Missing persons

The tenement at 44 Henry St. was listed in Clinton's campaign reports as the
home of Shu Fang Li, who reportedly gave $1,000.

In a recent visit, a man, apparently drunk, was asleep near the entrance to
the neighboring beauty parlor, the Nice Hair Salon.

A tenant living in the apartment listed as Li's address said through a
translator that she had not heard of him, although she had lived there for
the last 10 years.

A man named Liang Zheng was listed as having contributed $1,000. The address
given was a large apartment building on East 194th Street in the Bronx, but
no one by that name could be located there.

Census figures for 2000 show the median family income for the area was less
than $21,000. About 45% of the population was living below the poverty line,
more than double the city average.

In the busy heart of East Broadway, beneath the Manhattan Bridge, is a
building that is listed as the home of Sang Cheung Lee, also reported to
have given $1,000. Trash was piled in the dimly lighted entrance hall.
Neighbors said they knew of no one with Lee's name there; they knocked on
one another's doors in a futile effort to find him.

Salespeople at a store on Canal Street were similarly baffled when asked
about Shih Kan Chang, listed as working there and having given $1,000. The
store sells purses, jewelry and novelty Buddha statues. Employees said they
had not heard of Chang.

Another listed donor, Yi Min Liu, said he did not make the $1,000
contribution in April that was reported in his name. He said he attended a
banquet for Clinton but did not give her money.

Clinton "has done a lot for the Chinese community," he said.

One New York man who said he enthusiastically donated $2,500 to Clinton
doesn't appear to be eligible to do so under federal election law. He said
he came to the United States from China about two years ago and didn't have
a green card.

Out of the periphery

A key figure helping to secure Asian support for Clinton is a woman named
Chung Seto, who came to this country as a child from Canton province and has
supported Bill and Hillary Clinton since the 1990s. She called Fujian
natives' support for Hillary Clinton the beginning of civic engagement for
an immigrant group that had long been on the periphery.

She said she stationed translators at the entrance of one event to try to
screen out improper contributions.

Qun Wu, a 37-year-old waiter at a Chinese restaurant in Flushing, saw a
reference to a Clinton fundraiser in a Chinese-language newspaper. He took a
day off from work to go. Though he only makes $500 a week, he considers his
$1,000 donation to be money well-spent. He got his picture taken with
Clinton, hung it prominently in his house, then had color reprints made and
sent to family in China.

"Every day I go home and see it," he said. "I see my picture with Hillary,
and I feel encouraged. It's a great honor."

Many, on the other hand, said they gave for reasons having more to do with
the Chinese community than with Clinton. He Duan Zheng, who gave $1,000,
said of the Fujianese community: "They informed us to go, so I went.

"Everybody was making a donation, so I did too," he said. "Otherwise I would
lose face."

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l=la-home-center

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Hillary Clinton's Communist Chinese Fundraisers


http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...1217.story?col
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FBI Questions Chinese Student Leaders at Eastern U.S. Universities

....several of Beijing's special agents who were stationed at the Chinese
associations in New York have escaped to China.

Mr. Xu said that Americans can't fully understand how evil the CCP could be,
and hence independent media needs to continue to expose it. This will help
the United States take action against the special agents and learn more
about the real situation of the CCP and China.

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-8-27/59108.html

Chinese Communist Party Student Spies
http://en.epochtimes.com/211,123,,1.html

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Hillary Clinton's Communist Chinese Fundraisers

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics...1217.story?col
l=la-home-center


Chinese Bribes, Spies, and Politics

According to a former visiting professor at Yale University, Dr. Yuming
Zhang, the Chinese regime has a large number of spies in the United States.
An acquaintance of his working in the Chinese Consulate, who wishes to
remain anonymous, disclosed to Dr. Zhang that, "The Chinese Consulate has
placed people inside all student associations, Chinese churches, Chinese
newspapers, Chinese communities, democratic organizations, and Falun Gong
groups around New York. Their responsibilities are to gather information,
propagandize the Chinese Communist Party's ideology, and sow discord."

A web of bribes, spies, and political pressure is leading dozens of Chinese
student groups carry out the directives of the Chinese Communist Party.

The long arm of Beijing is reaching into U.S. universities and grasping
control of student organizations, according to recent reports. A web of
bribes, spies, and political pressure is leading dozens of Chinese student
groups across the United States to carry out the directives of their local
Chinese Consulates to suppress and slander groups not to the liking of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The list of universities affected is long and diverse: Columbia University,
New York University, the University of Rochester, U.C. San Diego, U.C. Santa
Cruz, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville. These schools and many more all have a Chinese Students and
Scholars Association (CSSA) or its equivalent with a political or financial
connection to their local Chinese Consulate.

For example, the University of Tennessee's CSSA financial statement from
2005 showed that 80 percent of its budget, or $1,400, came from funds
disbursed by "PRC Embassy" (the Chinese Embassy). There are at least 109
CSSAs across the United States, and now questions are being raised whether
any others have similar connections to their local consulates.
....
A decade ago, Ms. Yanping Lu served as the chair of the CSSA at the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She told The Epoch Times that, at
the time, she did not fully realize the Chinese Consulate was using her for
espionage. She accepted small gifts from the consulate-on the order of $300
each-as a matter of routine and did not think about it further. Eventually,
the consulate asked her to collect data on fellow students.

Mr. Yunqing You was elected president of the University of Minnesota CSSA in
2002. Soon he was introduced to a Chicago consular official named Jiacai
Cheng. During the year that You was president, Cheng mailed him $3,000 in
checks under his name. (You deposited them immediately in the CSSA account.)

"In fact, the so-called activity funds given by the consulate were not given
to the student association," You told The Epoch Times. "Instead, the funds
were given to the president individually... The checks are a direct bribe to
the president. The consulate withholds checks if their directives are not
followed by the president."

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-11/57509.html

CCP Student Spies
http://en.epochtimes.com/211,123,,1.html

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Big Source of Clinton's Cash is an Unlikely Address in California

DALY CITY, Calif. -- One of the biggest sources of political donations to
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the
flight path from San Francisco International Airport.

Six members of the Paw family, each listing the house at 41 Shelbourne Ave.
as their residence, have donated a combined $45,000 to the Democratic
senator from New York since 2005, for her presidential campaign, her Senate
re-election last year and her political action committee. In all, the six
Paws have donated a total of $200,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005,
election records show. Their donations closely follow contributions made by
a wealthy New York businessman.

See Donation record via WSJ here
http://online.wsj.com/public/resourc...etro_sort.html

It isn't obvious how the Paw family is able to afford such political
largess. Records show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot
house that they recently refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, the
64-year-old head of the household, is a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal
Service who earns about $49,000 a year, according to a union representative.
Alice Paw, also 64, is a homemaker. The couple's grown children have jobs
ranging from account manager at a software company to "attendance liaison"
at a local public high school. One is listed on campaign records as an
executive at a mutual fund.
Source:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1188...s_us_whats_new
s

So far what we have is a family of limited means donating an extraordinary
amount of money (considering their income) to Hillary Clinton and in smaller
part to other Democrats, that lives in a house that was once listed as Mr.
Hsu's home address, which makes that connection very obvious.

http://wwwwakeupamericans-spree.blog...linton-paw-fam
ily-and-norman.html

Now lets take a look at Norman Hsu.

Norman Hsu's love of Clinton on display
http://www.latimes.com/business/inve...834069.story?c
oll=la-headlines-business-invest

Hey Hillary, what's that big mark on your ear? It looks like $950,000 for a
school that your favorite Chinese fundraiser, Norman Hsu, just happens to
have been a board member of.

And in the case of the New School in Greenwich Village, it turned out to
have some national resonance: Norman Hsu, a major Democratic donor active in
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign and a New School
trustee, was found to be a fugitive who had skipped out after a felony theft
conviction in California 15 years ago.

Here's the bill, S.1710.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/cpquer...07&dbname=110&
It's the Labor/HHS/Education spending bill that's being debated in the
Senate right now. Do a search on "Clinton" a whole bunch of times (she has
quite a few line items in this bill, $500k here, $250k there, $1.5 million
over there) and you'll eventually land at this earmark.

New York Times
September 20, 2007

Norman Hsu, an apparel-industry executive and a major donor to Democratic
candidates and causes, confessed to FBI agents last week that he had
pressured investors in what he now admits were phony business deals to
contribute to Democratic political campaigns, prosecutors said in an
indictment that was unsealed today.

The complaint, filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, accused Mr. Hsu
of bilking at least $60 million from hundreds of investors in a nationwide
Ponzi scheme, and using some of that money to illegally reimburse at least
two people who made a total of $60,000 in campaign donations at his request.

While the complaint did not specify which candidates received the illegal or
coerced contributions, federal authorities confirmed that one of them was
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Her presidential campaign has said it
intends to return $850,000 to more than 200 people whose donations were
bundled by Mr. Hsu.
....
The indictment said that while in Colorado, Mr. Hsu reached out to FBI
agents on three occasions and asked to speak to them without his lawyers
present. He is said to have told the agents that his business deals involved
no real investments but were in fact fraudulent, and "admitted that he made
implied threats to his investors to pressure them to contribute to political
candidates he supported."

Working through two shell companies, Components Ltd. and Next Components
Ltd., Mr. Hsu persuaded numerous investors from across country to give him
money ostensibly to help secure short-term loans for various companies doing
business in the apparel industry, the government said.

The Ponzi scheme had been not intended to generate political contributions
even though several investors were bullied into making donations, David A.
Cardona, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.'s New York office, said
at a news conference today. Rather, Mr. Cardona said, it was the cachet
derived from Mr. Hsu's political activities that gave his investment schemes
a certain allure.

Those schemes, the complaint said, focused on several aspects of the apparel
trade, from helping obtain letters of credits for wholly imaginary
manufacturers to financing the importation of "high-end" Chinese clothing
that did not exist. As in all Ponzi schemes, the government said, Mr. Hsu
paid interest to the first wave of investors with principle invested by
secondary waves and used this purported success to lure more investors.

The experience of Joel Rosenman - a New York investor referred to in the
complaint only as "Victim 1" but whose identity was confirmed by several
lawyers involved in the case - was presented in the indictment as indicative
of the scheme as a whole. Mr. Rosenman's interactions with Mr. Hsu were also
laid out in a civil suit filed Friday in New York County Superior Court.

Mr. Rosenman was introduced to Mr. Hsu by a mutual friend in 2003 and made
an initial investment of $50,000 with Mr. Hsu. In return, he received a
check for $57,000 postdated for four and a half months later. The indictment
said that when Mr. Rosenman successfully cashed the check, it helped him
develop trust in Mr. Hsu, who claimed to have lined up clothing deals with
big-name companies like Nordstrom, L.L. Bean and Hugo Boss.

By 2007, Mr. Rosenman had created an investment fund, Source Financing
Investors, with friends and relatives that funneled more than $40 million
into Mr. Hsu's hands. In August, however, when reports about Mr. Hsu's
shadowy past began to surface, Mr. Rosenman confronted Mr. Hsu, who assured
him his investments were not in danger, the government said. But earlier
this month, Mr. Rosenman went to cash a check in the amount of $1,031,300
that Mr. Hsu had given him and, according to the complaint, the bank refused
to accept it. The civil suit filed by Source Financing Investors said that
$40.2 million of its money is missing.

Ronald Minkoff, a lawyer representing Source Financing Investors, said he
has asked campaigns that received contributions from Mr. Hsu and his network
of investors not to dispose of the money.

"We are asking them to hold that money in escrow," Mr. Minkoff said. "We are
trying to find what we can find."

Crime Stats:

- Number of individuals and businesses associated with the Clinton machine
who have been convicted of or pleaded guilty to crimes: 47
- Number of these convictions during Clinton's presidency: 33
- Number of indictments/misdemeanor charges: 61
- Number of congressional witnesses who have pleaded the Fifth Amendment,
fled the country to avoid testifying, or (in the case of foreign witnesses)
refused to be interviewed: 122

Forgetful Clinton "friends":

Number of times that Clinton figures who testified in court or before
Congress said that they didn't remember, didn't know, or something similar.

Hillary Clinton 250.
Bill Kennedy 116
Harold Ickes 148
Ricki Seidman 160
Bruce Lindsey 161
Bill Burton 191
Mark Gearan 221
Mack McLarty 233
Neil Egglseston 250
John Podesta 264
Jennifer O'Connor 343
Dwight Holton 348
Patsy Thomasson 420
Jeff Eller 697

Folks, this is a the prefect example of the old adage, if it walks like a
duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, chances are, it is, indeed,
a duck.

Follow all the links above and ask yourself one final question.

Will Americans vote for a person that has such close associations with fraud
and crime and fugitives?

www.softwar.net
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