Hsu left suicide note before fleeing court appearance

[BeyondGeography]

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Two days after The Wall Street Journal reported fugitive Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was found sprawled on the floor of a train cabin surrounded by pills, the newspaper reports Hsu drafted a suicide note before he went briefly missing.

The Journal reported in Thursday's edition that Hsu, who was convicted for investment fraud in the 1990's and failed to appear in court last Wednesday, sent copies of his suicide note to "several acquaintances and charitable organizations" before he boarded an Amtrak train bound for Chicago.

According to a recipient of the note who spoke with the Journal, Hsu "very explicitly said he intended to commit suicide," and also apologized if he put people "through inconvenience or trouble."

Hsu has raised campaign cash for several Democrats, but most significantly for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York. On Monday, the New York Democrat's presidential campaign said it would return $850,000 raised by Hsu to individual donors. The Democratic National Committee also told CNN it is now re-vetting $47,000 worth of contributions raised by Hsu between 2004-2007 verifying them with the donors directly.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/09/13/hsu-left-suicide-not-before-fleeing-court-appearance/#comments

Comment: The VRWC is already calling this Vince Foster II...

[William769]

1. In a related article.

NEW YORK (CNN) — The campaigns for a number of Democrats, including Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, said Thursday they have returned or given to charity donations from fund-raiser Norman Hsu, who has an open bench warrant for his arrest in California.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/08/30/dems-rush-to-dump-donations-from-fugitive-fundraiser/

[kenfrequed]

2. I am glad they donated the funds

Personally I expect right wing sludge politics to bring this up again and again, and the heir to falwell will no doubt get Scaife money to create tangled and unbelievable conspiracy theories about this. Ignore it or stomp on it early.

Donating all monies raised by him was a good move.

A better move would be for us Dem's to pick someone else as a candidate. There are still a number of very good choices in the 'second tier' rack.