Puzzle Pieces Of Norman Hsu

(Conspiracy Nation, 09/09/07) – Norman Hsu, apparently a “bundler”, was apprehended in Colorado. The latest that can be ascertained is that Hsu is under guard in a hospital there. (For further background on “bundling,” see “Hsu's On First. What's On Second?” http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Hsu.html)

Did the MSM (Mainstream Media) slide down fire poles, hop into vans, then roar off to Hsu's hospital and set up camp there, around the clock? Is MSM interrupting broadcasts with breathless updates? Are cameras lined up outside the hospital?

No, instead there is a paltry dearth of news updates on Mr. Hsu. This is the first puzzle piece: that the Hsu case is being ignored. It is “the dog that did not bark,” itself a clue.

The MSM calls itself the “watchdog press.” The dog barked loud when an Idaho senator might have been playing footsy in a men's washroom. But for some unknown reason, the “watchdog” didn't bark when Norman Hsu walked by.

Some other puzzle pieces gathered by this editor:

Known associate of Norman Hsu is Raymond Kwok Chow, alias "Shrimp Boy.” He was a notorious gangster in Chinatown in the early 1990's. He says he has “gone clean” since those days. Some doubt, though, that Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow has reformed. (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/09/facts_continue_to_come_to_ligh.html)

In the 1980's and early 1990's, San Francisco's Chinatown was the battleground of a bloody war between powerful gangs. Chow's gang "Wo Hop To" finally won. This was when Chow says he met Norman Hsu.

Chow's Wo Hop To gang is the American offshoot of one of the powerful Triads based in China. In August 1990, Hsu may have been kidnapped by Chow. Mr. Hsu claimed he had been assaulted several times and threatened. A lot of money was involved. Norman Hsu eventually “clammed up”, and “Shrimp Boy” was not charged.

Norman Hsu has “unexplained riches,” reports Mike McIntire in the New York Times. (“Shadowy Money Trail of a Fugitive Fund-Raiser,” September 9, 2007.) “The Hsu case has raised questions about campaigns’ use of bundlers to raise money.”

Winkle Paw and Paul Su are two other names connected to Hsu. Checks totaling thousands of dollars reportedly flew between Mr. Paw, Mr. Su, and Norman Hsu's variously-spelled companies. (McIntire, op. cit.)

Efforts by Mr. McIntire to speak with alleged members of the Hsu network were met by inscrutable and impenetrable oriental calm.

In Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, 3 residents of the small town have been caught up in the Hsu saga. Danny Lee, Soe Win Lee and Yu-Fen Huang, managers of Newspring Packaging there, cut various campaign checks in tandem with Mr. Hsu. Kent Cooper, a former longtime Federal Election Commission official who continues to track the influence of money in politics, said such ties raise red flags, especially given the scope of the contributions from rural Pennsylvania. "You are way beyond coincidence here. You are talking about methodical patterns of giving to the same candidates. This is way out of the ordinary," said Cooper. "This is a coordinated effort." (“Donors in step with Hsu,” by Mario F. Cattabiani. Philadelphia Inquirer, September 8, 2007)

Norman Hsu's companies, as noted, were variously-spelled. There is a pattern here as well, also including non-existent addresses, and apparent fronts. Mr. Hsu developed a long trail of addresses, in some cases mystifying longtime occupants of the locations, according to the Wall Street Journal. (“What Made Norman Hsu Run?” by Ianthe Jeanne Dugan, et al. September 8, 2007, page A1.)

To reiterate some of the puzzle pieces:

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