Bryan links to a story by The New York Times, in which it reports that Hillary Clinton’s campaign has refunded over $7,000 from a fundraiser it previously held in Chinatown. At that fundraiser alone, Hillary took in 15 times the amount Kerry took in from that neighborhood for his entire campaign. Well, apparently, the campaign started to wonder how cooks and waiters could afford $1,000+ donations, so decided to “investigate”. Well, actually, they sent out letters asking people to reaffirm that they did want to donate and it was their money. Which brings us to:

The Clinton campaign said that after the Chinatown fund-raiser in April, which raised about $380,000, aides conducted a standard review of the donor list: If donors’ stated professions seemed out of line with their donations — for instance, if a dishwasher gave $1,000 — the campaign sent letters asking them to affirm in writing that the money was their own.

In seven cases, with donations totaling $7,000, questions were raised, and those donors did not respond to requests to confirm their contributions. That money was then returned.

They donated $1,000, but then didn’t return a letter asking them if it was their’s. Why? Well, that’s the question. And there might be an answer.

Many of Clinton’s Chinatown donors said they had contributed because leaders in neighborhood associations told them to. In some cases, donors said they felt pressure to give.

But see, Allahpundit makes an interesting and important point. You can’t “pressure” someone into a donation if they literally don’t have the money. Yet they did make the donation. So, was it their’s? Or was it someone else’s? But we may already have an answer to that, too.

Hsiao Yen Wang, a cook in Chinatown, is listed as giving Clinton $1,000 on April 13. Contacted yesterday, she told The Post she had written a check.

But it was on behalf of a man named David Guo, president of the Fujian American Cuisine Council, and Wang told The Post that Guo had repaid her for the $1,000 contribution.

Not only was it made on behalf of Guo, but he reimbursed her for it. Also from the Post:

Shin K. Cheng is listed twice in federal records for giving $1,000 donations to Clinton’s campaign on April 17.

But the address recorded on campaign reports is a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases, hemorrhoids and skin disease.

No one there knew Shin.

Another donation came from a Shih Kan Chang on Canal Street. But the address listed is a shop that sells knock-off watches and other pirated goods. The sales clerk there did not know the donor.

There are several more examples over at the article. Exactly how much money has Hillary received from straw donors like this?