Jury finds Mar-a-Lago trespasser guilty on 2 counts
Source: ABC News
Yujing Zhang, the Chinese woman detained in March for trespassing at Mar-a-Lago -- President Donald Trump's Florida country club -- was found guilty of lying to federal agents and for entering a restricted area.
Zhang, who represented herself after declining the court's offer of a public defender, appeared to show no emotion upon receiving the verdict. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 22 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
On March 30, she was mistakenly allowed in by Mar-a-Lago staff. In addition to the purported trespassing, prosecutors alleged that she lied to Secret Service officers as she was let through the checkpoints. She was only discovered when a receptionist realized her name was not on the access list for the club.
"She was then being questioned and surrounded by more agents. She had a blank face, total control. She was answering their questions [in English]," Ariela Grumaz, a receptionist at Mar-a-Lago, testified on Tuesday.
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