<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4d1f0936-54f3-46df-b47c-67cc4cca7673/A01F11CC-B613-4BC8-AC1F-445B9899904A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_democratic_fundraiser" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_democratic_fundraiser" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_democratic_fundraiser"><P>NEW YORK – Former Democratic fundraiser <SPAN id="lw_1254264014_0" class="yshortcuts">Norman Hsu</SPAN> was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison Tuesday by a judge who accused him of funding his fraud by manipulating the political process in a way that "strikes at the very core of our democracy."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_democratic_fundraiser"><P>His donations became an embarrassment for <SPAN id="lw_1254264014_5" class="yshortcuts">Hillary Rodham Clinton</SPAN>'s presidential campaign. His arrest led Clinton to return more than $800,000 to donors linked to Hsu.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_democratic_fundraiser"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/5B1C4A48-FC2D-4032-958B-09735833D15A" alt="In this file photo, Norman Hsu is escorted into a Redwood City, Calif., courtroom, Sept. 21, 2007. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, pool)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_democratic_fundraiser">U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero sentenced the 58-year-old Hsu to 20 years in prison for his guilty plea to fraud charges and another four years and four months in prison for his conviction at trial for breaking <SPAN id="lw_1254264014_1" class="yshortcuts">campaign finance laws</SPAN>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_democratic_fundraiser"><P>"Mr. Hsu's disgraceful use of <SPAN id="lw_1254264014_2" class="yshortcuts">political campaigns</SPAN> to perpetuate his <SPAN id="lw_1254264014_3" class="yshortcuts">Ponzi schemes</SPAN>, as well as his acts of campaign finance fraud, strikes at the very core of our democracy," Marrero said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090929/ap_on_re_us/us_democratic_fundraiser"><P> During the May trial, prosecutors played a voicemail recording of Clinton, then a senator, effusively praising Hsu for his support. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A01F11CC-B613-4BC8-AC1F-445B9899904A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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