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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING Miami Herald: Feds zero in on possible Chinese espionage plot involving Trump's Mar-a-Lago
With classified filing, feds eye national security case against Mar-a-lago intruder
Trump Tourism: Access for Sale
The Miami Herald is investigating how U.S. President Donald J. Trump has become a favorite target of a little-known Chinese industry peddling access to the rich and powerful. At the center of this Trump Tourism is Cindy Yang, a former Asian day spa owner, who sold access to Mar-a-Lago and the White House, raising concerns about national security.
For the first time, federal prosecutors have disclosed they are developing a potential national security case against Yujing Zhang, the 33-year-old Chinese woman charged with unlawfully entering Mar-a-Lago with a stash of electronic equipment.
They asked a federal judge to allow them to file classified information under seal without the public or the defendant seeing it. If the motion is granted, prosecutors will present the evidence directly to the federal judge in Zhangs trespassing case during a private, closed meeting in the judges chambers.
The prosecutions motion indicates that she is a focus of a widening U.S. probe of possible Chinese espionage and suggests that authorities have evidence she was likely not simply a bumbling tourist who accidentally found her way into President Donald Trumps private estate in Palm Beach.
The motion by a counter-intelligence prosecutor with the U.S. Attorneys Office suggests that authorities have relevant classified evidence that could pose a risk to national security should anyone including Zhang ever see it.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article231465918.html#storylink=cpy
Trump Tourism: Access for Sale
The Miami Herald is investigating how U.S. President Donald J. Trump has become a favorite target of a little-known Chinese industry peddling access to the rich and powerful. At the center of this Trump Tourism is Cindy Yang, a former Asian day spa owner, who sold access to Mar-a-Lago and the White House, raising concerns about national security.
For the first time, federal prosecutors have disclosed they are developing a potential national security case against Yujing Zhang, the 33-year-old Chinese woman charged with unlawfully entering Mar-a-Lago with a stash of electronic equipment.
They asked a federal judge to allow them to file classified information under seal without the public or the defendant seeing it. If the motion is granted, prosecutors will present the evidence directly to the federal judge in Zhangs trespassing case during a private, closed meeting in the judges chambers.
The prosecutions motion indicates that she is a focus of a widening U.S. probe of possible Chinese espionage and suggests that authorities have evidence she was likely not simply a bumbling tourist who accidentally found her way into President Donald Trumps private estate in Palm Beach.
The motion by a counter-intelligence prosecutor with the U.S. Attorneys Office suggests that authorities have relevant classified evidence that could pose a risk to national security should anyone including Zhang ever see it.
Read more here: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article231465918.html#storylink=cpy
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BREAKING Miami Herald: Feds zero in on possible Chinese espionage plot involving Trump's Mar-a-Lago (Original Post)
MelissaB
Jun 2019
OP
Ties right back to the owner of the massage parlors who promoted connection to Trump family
suffragette
Jun 2019
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suffragette
(12,232 posts)1. Ties right back to the owner of the massage parlors who promoted connection to Trump family
and who has who-knows what information from influential parlor users (I would bet Roger Stone was one).
This could provide an interesting side door to so many murky dealings in Florida.
Hmm, wonder if Barr is overseeing any of this?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)2. K&R