Well, you’ll have to excuse me Jason, you see…I get my news from the ‘mainstream media,’ not those crazy radicals, and well…they didn’t think this story was good enough to publish in the first place. So I guess they felt like doing a story about how she gave the money back would be silly, you know, seeing how they didn’t report the contribution from a convict in the first place.

Now that I know she gave back the money after Hsu was busted in Colorado…quick…somebody give her a medal!!!

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Disgraced Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu will be handed over to local authorities as soon as his health improves enough for him to be released from St. Mary’s Hospital.

“My understanding is that after he is released from the hospital he will be booked into our facility,” said Heather Benjamin, spokeswoman for the Mesa County sheriff, on Saturday.

She said she did not know what would happen after that, but the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel said he would go through local courts for an extradition hearing on felony theft charges in California. The Sentinel quoted assistant U.S. Attorney Wyatt Angelo. Neither Angelo nor Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger returned calls Saturday, but Jeff Dorschner, Denver spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office in Colorado, confirmed the newspaper report.

The New York City-based Hsu has been a top fundraiser for Democratic candidates, including U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama, donating $260,000 to Democratic Party groups and federal candidates since 2004, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Samantha Moe, spokeswoman for St. Mary’s Hospital, said Hsu remained in fair condition. She said she could release no other information.

Hospital officials have declined to say what ails Hsu, or why Amtrak officials called the local fire department on Thursday to report a passenger had become ill on the California Zephyr. Police did not even go to the train station on the call.

Later that day, however, FBI officials in San Francisco called St. Mary’s and said a patient there was wanted on federal fugitive charges. The FBI did not say how they knew he had been hospitalized.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu skipped a bail hearing on a grand-theft charge dating to the early 1990s, prompting a judge to issue a bench warrant for his arrest. …The judge immediately ordered Mr. Hsu’s cash bail forfeited, and issued a bench warrant for his arrest with no bail. …state prosecutors said there was little they could do now but wait to see whether Mr. Hsu turned up.