State Senator’s Arrest Reveals Alleged Ties to Chinese Gangster Underground Society
California’s Democratic Party appears to have been infiltrated by a state senator with supposed ties to a Chinese Triad that was allegedly involved in an extensive criminal conspiracy to traffic guns and drugs, launder money, assassinate for cash, and influence public policy.
The FBI’s stunning arrest of State Senator Leland Yee at his San Francisco home in a raid at dawn was followed by the release of a massive 137 page affidavit. It names 26 defendants and outlines a sophisticated five-year investigation into a Chinese secret society — called the Chee Kung Tong — and its alleged crimes. The results of the investigation include dozens of charges leveled against well-known gangsters, such as Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow, who is Chee Kung Tong’s “Dragonhead,” or leader, as well as the exposure of political corruption in Senator Yee’s office that is said to have been going on for years.
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Publicly, Yee has been a staunch gun control advocate. Court documents suggest that in private, however, Yee displayed a sophisticated knowledge of both weapons and trafficking. The affidavit details discussions he had with one of the undercover agents in which he outlined a scheme to obtain hundreds of Tavor assault rifles — an Israeli manufactured equivalent to the M16 that Yee had tested himself, according to the document — and shoulder-fired rocket launchers. Yee said that he could use family connections in the Philippines to purchase the arms from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a rebel group that had been funded by the deceased Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
The plan was to ship the $2.5 million of weapons to North Africa via New Jersey, where Yee’s family would bribe Port of Newark officials, according to the affidavit.
Yee was a candidate to become California’s secretary of state; he allegedly told one of the undercover FBI agents that, once elected, he would be able to “utilize his position” to ship weapons directly to Africa, describing the continent as a “largely untapped market for trade.” (Understandably, Yee has since pulled out of the race.)
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This story is worth reading. State Senator Yee would have made the Godfather proud.
