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Let's see...The leftist meme is that the republicans do all sorts of things for the crooked oil companies.

It appears that the democrats do all sorts of things for REAL crooked fund-raisers.

Hsu pleaded no contest in 1991 to a felony count of grand theft, admitting he'd defrauded investors of $1 million in a bogus investment scam. He was facing up to three years in prison when he skipped town before his 1992 sentencing date, Deputy Attorney General Ronald Smetana said outside court.

Friday's 10-minute hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court was the culmination of a stunningly quick fall from grace for a disgraced California businessman who remade himself in New York as a benefactor of Democratic causes and candidates, including presidential contenders Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose campaign designated Hsu a "HillRaiser," the title given to top donors.
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Federal Election Commission records show Hsu donated $260,000 to Democratic Party groups and federal candidates since 2004. Though a top fundraiser for Clinton, he also donated to Obama's Senate campaign in 2004 and to Obama's political action committee.

After reports surfaced this week of his fugitive status, politicians at all levels scrambled to distance themselves.

Obama's campaign said Thursday it would give to charity the $2,000 Hsu contributed to his 2004 Senate campaign and the $5,000 Hsu gave to his political action committee, Hopefund.

Lie with dogs, you surely can get fleas, don'tcha'?