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Only NBC covered the court hearing for Norman Hsu, the fugitive fundraiser. Andrea Mitchell was more interested in what the Hsu case meant for the Presidential campaign of his beneficiary Hillary Rodham Clinton than in the defendant himself, who stands accused of running a $73m Ponzi scheme and appeared "frail, shaky after writing what read like a suicide note." The Rodham Clinton campaign, "scrambling to control the damage," returned the $850,000 in donations that Hsu had bundled together from 260 donors. But Mitchell was incredulous: "How did Clinton not know Hsu had been a fugitive for 15 years?" Mitchell reported that Hsu's haul "should have been a red flag" and speculated that "pressure" to keep up with Barack Obama's fundraising prowess drove Rodham Clinton's team to ignore warnings.
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