Hsu’s Capture
“Disgraced Dem Donor” Hsu was on the lam, all right, but he’s been captured in Colorado, according to Yahoo News:
FBI agents took Hsu into custody at St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction, Colo., said FBI spokesman Joseph Schadler.
Hsu had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to turn over his passport and ask a judge to cut in half the $2 million bail he posted last week when he turned himself in after spending 15 years on the lam from a felony theft conviction.
I don’t think the court will be willing to reduce his $2 million dollar bail now.
Update 1:
Hsu evidently flew into Oakland on a charter jet, then caught a train to Colorado:
Pete Smarr, a nursing supervisor at the Grand Junction hospital, declined to say what Hsu was suffering from — other than to report him in custody and in “fair” condition.
Hsu was traveling on Train 6, according to Cliff Cole, an Amtrak spokesman. Cole said Hsu was scheduled to get off the train in Denver. Cole had no information as to who — if anyone — Hsu may have been traveling with. Jason Booth, a spokesman for Hsu, declined comment late Thursday, saying he had not been in contact with Hsu for several days.
From Inside Bay Area.
He wasn’t considered a flight risk, so his actions are curious; if he had intended to flee, a quick trip to Mexico on the south or out of the country from Oakland or another bay area airport would have made sense. Perhaps he was headed toward Denver International Airport on the “California Zephyer” train.
Pro Cynic has a more, er, cynical view, that perhaps the Chinese Army has something to do with it:
He flees California, but heads inland, towards Chicago. He gets noticeably sick en route, to the point where Amtrak has to call the paramedics. Not attention he would necessarily want.
But the illness sounds too convenient. Was this an attempted assassination? If the Chinese government or the People’s “Liberation” Army have strong financial ties to Hsu, they would not want that becoming generally known.
The direction of Hsu’s flight, and the suspicious timing of his illness could mean Hsu was not fleeing prosecution, but assassination.
Oh my.
Update 2:AllahPundit at HotAir notes the paramedics requested a backboard to move him off the train, and states he was on his way to Denver. ICE was involved in the arrest, but there’s some indication Federal charges won’t be filed.
Developing …
