Hsu Financed Vegas Trip for Clinton Staffers

Considering they allegedly knew nothing about the guy, Mrs. Clinton and her people sure had their grubby hands out all the time when Norman Hsu was around.

VEGAS VICTORY BASH

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.

No, never anything illegal according to these people.

Just very dubious.

UPDATE: In other Pantsuit news, word is her latest stab at socialized medicine will cost a mere $110 billion annually, meaning the tab is likely more around $500 billion by the time it's shoved down our throats.

UPDATE II: Michelle Malkin has more on Hsu and Solis Doyle. Newsbusters notes how WaPo hack Howie Kurtz discusses the latest political scandals but fails to mention Norman Hsu.

How convenient.