Now that Normal Hsu is back custody more and more stories are surfacing of his campaign dealings. Via the Philly Inquirer:

“MOUNT CARMEL, Pa. - This is your typical tiny borough in the anthracite region, an out-of-the-way enclave of old rowhouses where you can buy lunch at Yanni’s Family Restaurant and still get change back from a $5 bill.

Nothing much happens here, except on fall Fridays, when folks root for the Red Tornadoes, the high school football team. But for the politically observant, Mount Carmel, Pa., is a name that in recent days has been drawing national attention and lots of questions.

Three of the town’s 6,300 residents have been caught up in a saga involving hundreds of thousands of dollars in questionable campaign contributions to some of the biggest names in national politics.

Since 2004, three managers of a plastics manufacturing plant on the outskirts of this Northumberland County town have given more than $270,000 to top Democrats, including Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, and Edward M. Kennedy.

What makes those donations unusual - besides that they came from a blue-collar coal town not known for large political checks - is that they closely track the pattern of giving by Norman Hsu, the self-described apparel executive and two-time fugitive who was apprehended in Colorado late Thursday.

Federal authorities, according to published reports, are investigating whether Hsu used a network of associates to skirt campaign contribution limits and broaden his political reach.”

Now to be fair just because Hsu is a dirty crook doesn’t mean that all those democrats he gave to through funnel families like the Paw and this factory managers are dirty - does it?

Well if we apply “The Abramoff Factor” that Dems applies to Republicans who in most cases merely had their picture taken with him, then yeah they’re just as dirty.

We’ll see as more and more of the dots get connected.