The Philadelphia Inquirer has the story of another set of very suspicious donations connected to Democratic fundraiser, Norman Hsu.
Since 2004, three managers of a plastics manufacturing plant on the outskirts of this Northumberland County town have given more than $270,000 to top Democrats, including Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, and Edward M. Kennedy.
What makes those donations unusual - besides that they came from a blue-collar coal town not known for large political checks - is that they closely track the pattern of giving by Norman Hsu, the self-described apparel executive and two-time fugitive who was apprehended in Colorado late Thursday.
These managers seemed to have incredible timing, giving to the same Democratic candidates around the country on the exact same day.
For example, on Oct. 25, 2004, Danny Lee, the plant manager in Mount Carmel, gave Kennedy $1,500. Hsu, on that same day, gave Massachusetts' senior senator $2,000.
On June 7, 2005, both men gave two checks, totaling $4,200, to the senator's son Patrick, a Democratic congressman from Rhode Island.
Danny Lee and Hsu each cut checks totaling $2,500 to Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida on Dec. 16, 2005.
On Jan. 12, Danny Lee and Huang, who lists her job on campaign forms as human resources manager at Newspring, each gave two $2,100 checks to Clinton. So did Hsu on the same day. Two weeks later, Danny Lee and Huang each cut another check to Clinton's campaign, this time for $1,900. At the same time, Hsu wrote one for $2,100.
Now that Hsu is back in custody, and the spotlight is on these other suspicious donors, perhaps some of them will start talking and the FBI can get to the bottom of where the money was coming from and Hsu suddenly became the big moneybags man for the Democratic Party.
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