Hassan Nemazee isn’t the first alleged Ponzi schemer connected to Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign.
There was also Norman Hsu, whom you might recall. He was the big Hillary donor with a criminal past who funneled campaign contributions through straw donors. He’s in jail now on a conviction from the 1990s that he was on the lam from when he got caught on the campaign finance misdeeds, and he’s subsequently been convicted for a separate Ponzi scheme and for campaign finance violations. So Hsu had more than his share of trouble.
While Hsu was melting down in 2007 — he jumped bail in Los Angeles, left a suicide note and was found in the fetal position on the floor of an Amtrak train in Chicago surrounded by pills — the Clinton campaign rolled out one of its fundraising honchos to defend itself against the blowback from Hsu: a guy by the name of Hassan Nemazee, who, hindsight being 20/20 and all, gave some quotes to the press that drip with irony considering what Nemazee himself was allegedly up to at the time.
