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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Jailed Fundraiser Paid For Clinton Staff Trips To Vegas (HSU) Jailed Fundraiser Paid For Clinton Staff Trips To Vegas NY Post | LEONARD GREENE | September 18, 2007 08:47 AM September 17, 2007 -- Members of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign staff got a nice payoff last year for their work to get her re-elected - a trip to Las Vegas funded by her fugitive former fund-raiser. Among the Sin City guests of disgraced former fund-raiser Norman Hsu was Patti Solis Doyle, one of Clinton's most trusted advisers who now runs the senator's presidential campaign. According to The Los Angeles Times, Hsu - who raised more than $850,000 for Clinton before being jailed last month on charges related to an investment scheme - treated the senator's campaign staff to several days at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, complete with free show tickets and dinners at posh restaurants. Doyle was accompanied by two junior staffers and a New York-based fund-raiser, the report said. In April 2006, Hsu provided a hotel stay in Las Vegas for two other campaign workers. Doyle also received a coveted and pricey designer handbag from the disgraced moneyman, the newspaper said. But she returned it. The red-faced Clinton camp insists there was nothing illegal about the trip, according to the article, and stressed that Hsu never received any legislative favors in return for his generosity. Clinton last week returned the $850,000 Hsu raised, but not before taking a political beating on the fund-raising fiasco. Hsu went on the lam a couple of weeks ago after missing a California bail hearing, but was arrested in a Colorado hospital after witnesses said he was behaving erratically aboard a train bound for Chicago. Hsu remains locked away in a Colorado jail. The Clinton cash came from about 260 individual donors Hsu brought into the Clinton fold, some of whom never knew they were contributing to the campaign. Hsu also contributed at least $330,000 to state Democratic candidates and state party committees and ballot initiatives during the 2004 and 2006 elections. Gov. Spitzer and Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said they would divest their campaigns of the donations they received. Manhattan DA Robert Morgenthau has launched an investigation of Hsu, focusing on $40 million in "investment" cash that was given to him by Joel Rosenman - one of the four founders of the 1969 Woodstock Festival. leonard.greene@nypost.com
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