Posted on 04/10/2010 7:12:55 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
In Chicago, IL a Mandarin-speaking police officer posed as a cop on the take in a sting operation "that busted a Chinatown prostitution ring and exposed a scheme to obtain thousands of Illinois driver’s licenses illegally" as reported by Frank Main for the Chicago Sun-Times:
Brothel operator Sheng Quan Dong bribed the officer to keep police away from his business, prosecutors said. Dong is accused of making $18,000 in payoffs over two years. * * * The prostitution sting led investigators to an identity-fraud scheme in which 19 people were charged in federal court in 2009. Using fake passports, more than 15,000 Illinois driver's licenses and state identification cards were obtained, prosecutors say. Customers — often undocumented immigrants from Asia — were charged thousands of dollars for forged documents, including a phony Chinese social security card and passport, prosecutors said.
Although prosecutors "would not discuss the connection between Dong's alleged prostitution business and the identity fraud scheme," they did reveal that in 2007 Dong met the undercover cop "to discuss trouble he was having with some Chinese mafia members from New York": "They were in Chicago to obtain driver's licenses, Dong allegedly told the cop before handing him $1,500 in an envelope."
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Maybe we ought to do a sting on the Chicago politician who went to Washington?
Can’t he keeps no records of past.
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