The Hsu scandal coninues to show itself to be as deep and as wide as I expected it to be.
Suitably Flip points out that the current Dean of the New School, and former Clinton administration hack Fred Hochberg is hip deep in this scandal.
Yes, Fred Hochberg, a dean at the school where Hsu served as a trustee, one of Hsu’s fellow HillRaisers, CEO of the company that officially bundled at least one of Hsu’s direct contributions as recently as this summer, and the apparent architect of Hsu’s favored candidate slate, was installed as one of the country’s senior-most federal policymakers by Bill Clinton.
Hochberg was tapped to become the SBA’s deputy adminstrator in 1998 and some time thereafter became the acting administrator. The SBA administrator is not a current Cabinet-level position. Clinton elevated the position to Cabinet rank, a move Bush has undone. Not long before his executive appointment, Hochberg had enjoyed another kind of Presidential access, as a member of Clinton’s bescandaled “White House Coffee” guest list.
Personally, my reading is that the mechanisms which are now being revealed by way of the Hsu scandal, have been in place for many years prior to Hsu’s being involved with them. Like, about the time of the Clinton’s ascending to power. No shock, then that their names should be associated with current efforts to make Bill Clinton the First Lady.
Tags: Corruption, Democrats
