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The Sex Trade Lady in FL is going to be a bigger story real soon..... (Original Post) kpete Mar 2019 OP
It should be a big story right now. Vinca Mar 2019 #1
Yup mercuryblues Mar 2019 #2
It means that Mitch McConnell had a personal reason to give Trump Baitball Blogger Mar 2019 #3
That's not to say that McConnell's hands are clean regarding Russia. GoCubsGo Mar 2019 #4
My first thought upon reading the OP... IthinkThereforeIAM Mar 2019 #5
AM Joy makes this her top story this AM GreatCaesarsGhost Mar 2019 #6
K&R... spanone Mar 2019 #7
Which makes the entire Steele Dossier true AwakeAtLast Mar 2019 #8
No. Does not logically do that. But, it does add a lot of evidentiary weight in Steele's favor. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #11
Been telling y'all since way bac a year ago 2naSalit Mar 2019 #9
Trump's minions are snatching and raping babies. lagomorph777 Mar 2019 #23
That's what I've been saying 2naSalit Mar 2019 #24
In a normal world any government employee that said..... KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2019 #31
Sounds like the mindset 2naSalit Mar 2019 #35
Ah, this is why he constantly keeps "No collusion" in the news. (Even though there is collusion too) Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #10
More witnesses than for collusion, too. Hugin Mar 2019 #12
Two words......Mitch McConnell mountain grammy Mar 2019 #13
It's a Mitch Hunt! (Day by day looks more like one.) . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2019 #14
McConnell is, along with Cheney, one of the two most evil figures in 21st American history to date DFW Mar 2019 #16
I've read his own children don't speak to him. mountain grammy Mar 2019 #18
I find him worse DFW Mar 2019 #19
Yes, good points. I agree. He's far worse. mountain grammy Mar 2019 #29
+1 dalton99a Mar 2019 #17
Cindy Yang's other company is GY US Investments FakeNoose Mar 2019 #15
Republicans went from smuggling arms & drugs in the 80's to human sex trafficking now yaesu Mar 2019 #20
+1 2naSalit Mar 2019 #26
It was odd when the story broke about Kraft Trenzalore Mar 2019 #21
Corruption....Ivanka's trademarks QED Mar 2019 #22
How can we explain that? jberryhill Mar 2019 #28
One of her trademarks Scarsdale Mar 2019 #33
Yes, since I first read this paragraph back in the day, every time I hear the word "China", I think Leghorn21 Mar 2019 #25
+1 2naSalit Mar 2019 #27
It's slowly gaining traction, SNL did a bit during the news on Yang. sarcasmo Mar 2019 #30
International human trafficking is far, far bigger than this little sex ring. KY_EnviroGuy Mar 2019 #32
David Corn is on Morning Joe today. He's doing work on the story. oasis Mar 2019 #34

Vinca

(50,267 posts)
1. It should be a big story right now.
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 09:09 AM
Mar 2019

Once again, substitute the name Obama and imagine the media coverage at this very moment.

mercuryblues

(14,530 posts)
2. Yup
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 09:21 AM
Mar 2019

Who wants to bet that the sex slave ring doesn't have ties to Chinese intelligence? Right from the beginning I wondered who tipped off the police and why now?

Baitball Blogger

(46,700 posts)
3. It means that Mitch McConnell had a personal reason to give Trump
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 09:37 AM
Mar 2019

everything he wanted. Since Trump and Russia detracts from the crap his wife got him into.

GoCubsGo

(32,080 posts)
4. That's not to say that McConnell's hands are clean regarding Russia.
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 09:57 AM
Mar 2019

But, it sure does explain a lot, doesn't it? It has all been there--right under our noses.

2naSalit

(86,561 posts)
9. Been telling y'all since way bac a year ago
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 10:12 AM
Mar 2019

that there is a huge human trafficking operation in the middle of this. They are hiding in plain sight. Where are all those girls and young women snatched at the border? WHY can't the children be reunited with their parents and families? Hardly anyone is very concerned about the Asian victims or the S. and Central American victims...

This has to stop immediately. There is plenty of evidence, get these fuckers out of office NOW!!

This is all about the cult of white male dominance.


lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
23. Trump's minions are snatching and raping babies.
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 12:07 PM
Mar 2019

Sounds like a sick Buck Henry sketch on SNL, but it's all too believable.

Remember Pizzagate? Remember how Reptilians love to project their sins on everybody else?

2naSalit

(86,561 posts)
24. That's what I've been saying
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 12:11 PM
Mar 2019

And was it Neilsen who said, "We didn't track the children we took from their parents because we just didn't tink anyone would care." ?

Fuck those bastards. They all need to be put in the position their victims are in... in cages and sold to be worked and raped to death.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,490 posts)
31. In a normal world any government employee that said.....
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 02:04 AM
Mar 2019

"we just didn't think anyone would care" should be fired immediately without benefits. That sounds like an attitude taken from Ayn Rand.

They're not thinking as the American general public would at all, but as right-wing extremists instead....

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,999 posts)
10. Ah, this is why he constantly keeps "No collusion" in the news. (Even though there is collusion too)
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 10:13 AM
Mar 2019

The collusion crime is not as bad as the trafficking children crime. And the collusion crime is amenable to dragging out with endless litigation and hiding reports, etc.

DFW

(54,358 posts)
16. McConnell is, along with Cheney, one of the two most evil figures in 21st American history to date
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 11:20 AM
Mar 2019

And I don't think anyone will be doing any Oscar winning films about him any time soon. Mitch McTurtle has been far too canny a behind-the-scenes operator, only showing his ugly face in public when absolutely necessary. At age 77, he's not out for the money any more--he is driven by raw power and the pure satisfaction he derives from making people miserable. He is a true medieval figure in our modern midst.

DFW

(54,358 posts)
19. I find him worse
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 11:32 AM
Mar 2019

A despot enjoys ruling over his unfortunate minions in public. Like Ceauşescu or Erdoğan. McTurtle enjoys the havoc of his machinations in private with a few cronies. He rarely crows about it in public. It is his own private pleasure, and he feels no need to overtly lord it over the unfortunate citizens of our country. Maybe he remembers what happened to Ceauşescu, and would like to avoid a similar fate.

FakeNoose

(32,634 posts)
15. Cindy Yang's other company is GY US Investments
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 11:15 AM
Mar 2019

From Daily Beast in the OP:

Cindy Yang founded a chain of massage parlors. One of those was busted by Florida police. Robert Kraft, owner of the perennial Super Bowl champions New England Patriots was arrested for what he allegedly did at that spa, as were other prominent men according to several reports.

The spa allegedly was engaged in trafficking young women from China, turning them into sex slaves locked into horrendous lives of serial rape and squalor. While Cindy Yang sold the massage parlor in question, she continued to own others that were suspected of also doing a brisk business in sexual services.

But Yang also founded a business with her husband in 2017 called “GY US Investments” which offered itself, according to the Mother Jones account, as an “international business consulting firm that provides public relations services to assist business in America to establish and expand their brand image in the modern Chinese marketplace.”

While that sounds like typical consulting firm gobbledygook, the rest of the site makes it clear that what the company did was promise access to the President of the United States, his family and his resort Mar-a-Lago as a way of helping Chinese businesses establish themselves in the U.S. and worldwide.


Citing Miami Herald as source:
(link) https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article227186429.html

And Mother Jones as another source:
(link) https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/03/a-florida-massage-parlor-owner-has-been-selling-chinese-execs-access-to-trump-at-mar-a-lago/


yaesu

(8,020 posts)
20. Republicans went from smuggling arms & drugs in the 80's to human sex trafficking now
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 11:33 AM
Mar 2019

will they continue to circumvent the laws? Do they have enough power, wealth & Federal judges behind them to get away with it, continue it?

Trenzalore

(2,331 posts)
21. It was odd when the story broke about Kraft
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 11:33 AM
Mar 2019

There were 3 high profile uber wealthy old businessman all caught at the same suburban massage parlor.

The stories that are coming out about the founder and her connection to republican politics makes this make much more sense.

I also openly wonder if the owner has her own tapes that Trump has access to for blackmail of businessmen and republican congressmen.

QED

(2,747 posts)
22. Corruption....Ivanka's trademarks
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 11:40 AM
Mar 2019

She shuttered her business to focus on her daddy's presidenting and then gets trademarks in China? For a business she shut down? How can we explain that except for corruption?

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
28. How can we explain that?
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 12:20 PM
Mar 2019

You mean other than the fact that it takes about a year from filing to registration, so if you go out of business during that time, they’ll issue months later?

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
33. One of her trademarks
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 07:18 AM
Mar 2019

is for an escort business. In the latest budget, she will get $100 MILLION to "further small businesses for women overseas" Wanna bet HER business gets the lion's share? She is going back to her granddaddy's trade - prostitution. Remember tRump's grandpa owned brothels in Alaska and Canada. Ivanka has this in her DNA, so it is a natural fit.

Leghorn21

(13,524 posts)
25. Yes, since I first read this paragraph back in the day, every time I hear the word "China", I think
Sun Mar 10, 2019, 12:13 PM
Mar 2019

of it.

May this story blossom and bring the downfall of all the slave traders involved in any kind of way—
all of them

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,490 posts)
32. International human trafficking is far, far bigger than this little sex ring.
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 02:33 AM
Mar 2019

From news snippets and investigative journalism I've read for years, many products and services we enjoy every day have trafficked labor components in them.....including most clothing we wear, many foods we eat, and most electronic devices we use.

I'm delighted to see this Chinese sex ring get busted and the practice is probably nation-wide, with many more operators than just Ms. Yang. This is just the tip of a huge iceberg that the wealthy will fight to keep concealed, when we consider that this issue runs through our food production industry, the hotel business, an extensive secretive system in industrial construction, and many others.

However, let's not forget that many workers that are trafficked do so willingly because they come from developing or third-world nations where poverty is extreme. Let's also remember that corporations owned by many billionaires that support the GOP would likely collapse if not for trafficked labor in their chain of costs.

I'm not positive about it happening, but America could be at the forefront of ending these practices world-wide.... .

oasis

(49,376 posts)
34. David Corn is on Morning Joe today. He's doing work on the story.
Mon Mar 11, 2019, 07:20 AM
Mar 2019

There seems to be a connection with the madam, the Chinese Communist Party and their stealth attempt in a take over of Taiwan.

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