Feds open foreign money investigation into CINDY YANG (of massage parlor fame).
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The Miami Herald has been doing such a good job -- which might be why Cindy Yang recently filed a defamation lawsuit against it. Good for the Herald for refusing to be intimidated.
I got a subscription because papers like this won't stay in business unless some people help pay.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article230217729.html
The FBI has opened a public corruption investigation into Republican donor and South Florida massage-parlor entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, focusing on whether she illegally funneled money from China into the president’s re-election effort or committed other potential campaign-finance violations, the Miami Herald has learned.
Investigators obtained a federal grand jury subpoena Tuesday seeking records from Bing Bing Peranio, an employee of Yang’s family’s spa business who last year contributed a maximum $5,400 to President Donald Trump’s re-election effort, according to a source familiar with the probe. Yang came to Peranio’s workplace and helped her write the check, Peranio told reporters from The New York Times, who first reported the contribution. Peranio told The Times she didn’t “say no.”
The subpoena asked for any records related to that March 5, 2018, donation and possibly other contributions between 2014 and the present, said the source, who asked for anonymity to discuss an ongoing federal investigation.
In a brief phone interview with the Miami Herald, Peranio confirmed that she had received a subpoena and that FBI agents had interviewed her at her home Thursday.
She declined to discuss the nature of the conversation but said she did not understand why investigators were interested in her political contributions.“It’s not just me,” Peranio said. “I don’t know why I always get it.”
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article230167829.html
Li “Cindy” Yang, who along with her family operated a string of Asian-themed day spas and advertised her ability to introduce Chinese business executives to President Donald Trump, is suing the McClatchy Company, corporate parent of the Miami Herald. Yang claims defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The Miami Herald stands by its story.
Yang’s attorney, Evan Turk, filed suit Monday in Palm Beach Circuit Court over a March 8, 2019, article headlined “Trump Cheered Patriots to Super Bowl Victory with Founder of Spa where Kraft was Busted.”