The FBI is reportedly investigating the former owner of a Florida day spa who is alleged to have advertised access to President Trump to Chinese executives.
The Miami Herald reported Thursday that the FBI opened a public corruption investigation into Li “Cindy” Yang examining whether she illegally distributed money from China into Trump’s reelection campaign. The bureau is also reportedly probing whether Yang committed other possible campaign finance violations, according to the Herald.
A source familiar with the investigation told the Herald that investigators secured a federal grand jury subpoena on Tuesday seeking records from an associate of Yang’s. The associate, Bing Bing Peranio, an employee of Yang’s family’s spa business, reportedly maxed out donations to Trump’s reelection campaign.
Yang went to Peranio’s workplace and helped her write the $5,400 check, Peranio told The New York Times, which first reported the contribution.
According to the Herald, the subpoena seeks records related to the March 5, 2018, donation and other potential contributions since 2014.
Peranio told the Herald that she had received a subpoena and said FBI agents had interviewed her Thursday, but declined to discuss specifics of the conversation.
………
- Discussion
-
FBI opens foreign-money corruption probe into Trump donor in Florida: report https://t.co/WSkYszDMPi pic.twitter.com/PuSTGUQrq6
— The Hill (@thehill) May 10, 2019
Guess Trump shouldn’t have insulted the intelligence community so many times. No one is going to work harder to find the evidence now than the FBI. The optics are looking worse and worse for Trump’s campaign. The only voters he will have left are the true believers. The only ones against Trump aren’t all Democrats. Some of are independents and those for whom the stench on this president will be so bad even the “lesser of two evils” won’t be able to hold their noses and vote for him.
Hopefully he’ll spend the rest of his days behind bars wondering what the heck happened.
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.