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TieNTeas -> CollarMe.Com in the news (Not in a good way) (3/22/2007 9:37:24 PM)
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http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/local/scn-sa-hsu4mar21,0,2742135.story?coll=stam-news-local-headlines
Man stalked ex-mistress, threatened to 'ruin her life' [link=http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/trb.stamford/news/local;ptype=ps;slug=scn-sa-hsu4mar21;rg=ur;ref=stamfordadvocatecom;pos=1;sz=160x600;tile=2;ord=98670114?][/link] By Zach Lowe
Staff Writer
March 21, 2007
– 2007, The Advocate
STAMFORD - Former hedge fund manager Albert Hsu stalked his onetime mistress and threatened to "ruin her life" for more than a year before he allegedly posed as her on a bondage Web site and asked to be kidnapped and raped, a newly unsealed arrest warrant shows.
"I want a real-life abduction and rape scene," the Web advertisement read, according to the warrant. "Only those who can deliver on my extreme desires need apply."
The warrant provides new details of the police case against Hsu, 43, and offers an account of the events leading to his arrest.
Hsu a former New Canaan Cub Scout leader and manager of a $95 million hedge fund, was apprehended earlier this month when the woman found out about the scheme and told police she thought Hsu was behind it.
The victim, a 36-year-old New Canaan woman, filed a police complaint against Hsu in February 2006, a few months after ending their affair, records show.
She told police Hsu, of 139 Beech Road, continued to send her e-mails and letters at her home and office.
Police warned Hsu not to contact her, but she called police in December to tell them he had not stopped.
Hsu left a handwritten letter, a birthday card and a bottle of perfume on the windshield of her car at the Talmadge Hill train station parking lot, the warrant says.
Police again called Hsu and told him to stop contacting the woman, records show. But Hsu already had created a new e-mail account and joined the bondage site at collarme.com under a member name, the warrant shows.
On March 25, apparently using his home computer, Hsu logged into the account, posed as his former mistress and sent a message to users.
Hsu exchanged several e-mails with a New Jersey man who responded.
Hsu disclosed the kind of car the woman drives, the license plate number, her style of clothing and where she stands on the Talmadge Hill platform.
"You can't miss me," Hsu, pretending to the be victim, told the New Jersey man. "I am the prettiest woman on the train and dress very fashionably."
Hsu knew the details because he met the woman at the Talmadge Hill train station in 2002, according to the warrant.
She wanted to break off the relationship in 2005, but Hsu said he would "ruin her life" and tell her husband about the affair if she left him.
She was scared to end the relationship because Hsu admitted he has bipolar disorder and had been arrested in a 2000 domestic violence incident with his wife.
The woman broke up with him in late 2005. Hsu created the member account on collarme.com a few months later, in March 2006.
His scheme unraveled when the New Jersey man who responded to the ad asked to talk on the phone, hoping to confirm he was corresponding with the woman who posted the ad,.
Hsu would not provide a telephone number. The New Jersey man became suspicious and called the listed home number for the woman.
The woman was terrified, the warrant says. She called New Canaan police and told them about her history with Hsu.
Detectives tracked the e-mail address linked to the member account to Hsu's computer and arrested him March 2.
Hsu, former chairman of the board of directors of the New Canaan chapter of the American Red Cross, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree attempted sexual assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, criminal impersonation, two counts of second-degree harassment and trafficking in personal identifying information.
He no longer works at Anchor Point Capital LLC in Coral Gables, Fla., the hedge fund he co-founded in 2005.
Hsu previously was U.S. investment officer for Atlantic Philanthropies, where he managed funds for the $3.8 billion foundation. He also was director of investments for the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, a $1 billion foundation.
From 1997 to 2001, he supervised trust investments for Xerox, managing half the pension fund's $10 billion in assets.
Hsu, who is in custody in Bridgeport, is scheduled to appear Friday in state Superior Court in Stamford. Copyright © 2007, Southern Connecticut Newspapers, Inc.
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