The presidential campaign for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that it will donate $23,000 to charity after it discovered that the money’s donor has an outstanding arrest warrant from a fraud case in California, reports The New York Times. Ms. Clinton’s campaign also plans to review its records for other money it might have received from the donor.

Norman Hsu, a businessman involved in the apparel industry and a trustee for Eugene Lang College, has been a prolific donor and fund raiser for Democratic candidates, having raised and given hundreds of thousands of dollars, the newspaper reports. Other candidates, including comedian Al Franken, who is running for the Senate in Minnesota, and Rep. Doris O. Matsui, of California, also have decided not to keep money received from Mr. Hsu.

Mr. Hsu did not appear in a San Mateo County courtroom in 1991 to be sentenced in connection with a plan to defraud investors, according to the paper. He pleaded no contest to one count of grand theft and faced up to three years in prison.

Mr. Hsu said in a statement that he was “surprised to learn that there appears to be an outstanding warrant” for his arrest. He insisted that he had “not sought to evade any of my obligations and certainly not the law.”

In related news, Sen. Norm Coleman, Republican of Minnesota, plans to donate a $2,500 contribution he received from Sen. Larry Craig, Republican of Idaho, in light of the controversy surrounding Mr. Craig, reports the Associated Press.

Mr. Craig pled guilty this month to engaging in lewd conduct involving an undercover police officer in a Minneapolis airport bathroom.

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