Former top Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu used his associations with famous political families like the Clintons and the Kennedys to polish his image and attract investors to his financial frauds, a prosecutor told a jury at the opening of a trial Tuesday.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Rua Kelly showed the jury in Manhattan photographs of the Hong Kong-born Hsu with famous politicians. He also said jurors would hear his former investors describe being pressured by Hsu to make political donations in their names that they would be reimbursed for.
The prosecutor said Hsu used that method to dodge campaign donation laws restricting how much a candidate can receive …
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