It’s simply amazing that Norman Hsu managed to defraud investors of millions of dollars, while hobknobbing with Hillary Clinton and other political leaders, yet at the same time he is stupid enough to believe this argument will work:

Disgraced political donor Norman Hsu wasn’t hiding from anyone over the past few years, his lawyers say. If California authorities really wanted to find him, they could have asked Hillary Rodham Clinton or one of the other prominent Democrats he showered with cash donations.

Hsu is asking a judge to toss his 15-year-old felony fraud conviction, arguing that his right to a speedy trial was violated because authorities weren’t actively pursuing him. They could easily have arrested Hsu, his lawyers argue, at one of the swank fundraisers he hosted in California for prominent local politicians including Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento.

“Mr. Hsu lived an open and public life and the government made no apparent efforts to arrest him,” attorney James Brosnahan wrote in court papers filed last week. “He did not act like a fugitive. He did not evade the authorities, but rather openly associated with highly public officials.”

State prosecutors filed their own documents Tuesday arguing that Hsu shouldn’t benefit from his flight from justice, even if he was hiding in plain sight. That would “stand the criminal justice system on its head,” deputy attorney general Ronald Smetana wrote.

It’s shameful that Hsu’s lawyer is attempting to use the Sixth Amendment to get his client off. At no time were Norman Hsu’s rights violated because at no time was a speedy trial denied to him. The speedy trial was denied by Hsu himself for failing to appear at the courthouse to defend himself.

As is typical with the liberal mentality, Norman Hsu refuses to take any personal responsibility for his own actions, instead blaming the government for their failure to act.

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