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Federal prosecutors unsealed a criminal complaint Thursday charging Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu with breaking campaign finance laws and creating a "massive" Ponzi scheme.
The complaint says Hsu -- who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and others -- violated campaign finance laws by making contributions to candidates in other people's names and perpetrated a Ponzi scheme to defraud victims across the United States of more than $60 million.
Robert Emmers, a spokesman for Hsu, declined to comment. Hsu's lawyer in San Francisco, Jim Brosnahan, did not immediately return phone messages Thursday.
The charges are the latest in a string of legal problems for Hsu.
He is already in custody in Colorado, where he was captured after skipping a scheduled court appearance in California on an unrelated, 1991 fraud case.
In that case, state prosecutors accused him of fraudulently persuading investors to pump money into a clothing import business that didn't actually exist. He pleaded no contest, and left town before he could be sentenced. Investigators believed he fled to Hong Kong.