Oy Vey - The Hsu Money Trail

I was content to let the Norman Hsu thing slide - there's quite a few starf**kers involved in campaign finance. But now, Suitably Flip has connected the dots.

Hsu is a bundler of smaller contributions. We're starting to find out that he got those fraudulently, but it's odd that he's so hung up on Democrats. Most bundlers work both parties - anyone who will grant them access gets money. But not with Hsu.

It turns out, Hsu's contributions are highly correlated with those of Fred Hochberg - another big Hillary supporter, heir to the Lillian Vernon fortune, dean at The New School, and former Clinton cabinet member. Actually, that's not quite right - Hochberg's position was elevated to the cabinet while he held it, and that move was undone by the Bush administration who just didn't think the Small Business Administration was quite on the same level as, say, the State Department.

Hochberg is also a bundler, and none of this suggests any illegality on the part of those contributions.

What it does suggest is that a highly placed member of the Clinton team(s) knew the difference between legal and illegal contributions, and rather than declining the latter, he set up a Chinese wall to isolate himself and the Clinton campaign from their continued use.

So, what do you get for raising big money? Well, if you're in business, and you've already been in the cabinet, and your sugar daddy (or lady in this case) wins the election, my guess is that you'd be aiming for Secretary of the Treasury.