Hsu Paid for Hillary Team Lavish Las Vegas Trip

The mainstream press has predictably started to forget Hillary's latest scandal, but the plot thickens nonetheless:

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.

Didn't it occur to these people that maybe it was fishy to be treated by some fundraiser, who they didn't even know. They didn't know him because they would've known that he was a fugitive. Or maybe they did? This raises serious questions that the press obviously won't ask. It raises issues of judgement and corruption on the part of a potential President. It also raises flags about a historic pattern of corruption on the part of Bill and Hillary.