She should've ducked.
Posted on 06/22/2005 11:51:27 PM PDT by Happy2BMe
NEW YORK -- A woman was convicted Wednesday of using her Chinatown storefront to orchestrate human-smuggling schemes, including a treacherous voyage in 1993 that ended in the deaths of 10 Chinese immigrants.
Cheng, known as "Big Sister Ping," was accused of amassing a multimillion-dollar fortune by smuggling thousands of immigrants who endured perilous journeys aboard dilapidated cargo ships such as the Golden Venture, which ran aground in June 1993 near the borough of Queens. Ten immigrants died trying to swim to shore.
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Ooops, I read "Ten" as Ted.
Ted is alive and well. Just ask John McCain.
She should've ducked.
Eider way, her web of lies went down.
Court papers allege that Ms Cheng charged up to $30,000 per person.
Prosecutor David Kelley said Ms Cheng used members of violent gangs - known as snakeheads - to torture immigrants until they paid smuggling fees.
Snakeheads arrange for illegal Chinese immigrants to go to the West but then kidnap them on arrival and demand huge ransom.
"She is very famous," said Steven Wong, who runs an immigrant advocacy group in Chinatown. "Her trial will bring a lot of attention."
"COYOTES' get paid a lot better bringing their 'products' in from China via New York than from Mexico via Texas.
Ping somehow made her way to Hong Kong and later with the help of human smugglers to Canada and later New York in 1981. She came alone leaving her husband and family behind.
Shortly after arriving in New York, she began selling clothes on Hester street and cheap food along East Broadway. Described as an extremely hardworking woman, she opened a general merchandise shop on Hester Street selling variety items and souvenirs. According to New York police she was naturalized shortly later and her husband and children joined her in New York. For 13 years, Ping worked in Chinatown as a businesswoman and became quite well known in the area said Justin Yu, a writer.
There was a robbery at her shop and the robbers took $8,000 in cash…everyone was surprised how she had so much cash in such a small shop.
In 1990, business for Ping started booming after the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
She moved to 47 East Broadway, in New York?s Chinatown paying US$3 million in cash, for a building directly across the street from a branch of the Bank of China – Beijing's central bank.She later bought the building next door. Steven Wong, a social activist in New York's Chinatown who worked for the U.S. government on Fujian migrant cases, said Ping was very well established by the late eighties and early nineties.
According to Yu and Wong, Ping set up an underground bank in her restaurant and could transfer money overnight just by making phone calls to China.
Thank for the extra info.
As a resident of Queens, I always find it funny that the Chinese should go all that way to get away from one oppressive society to one that`s equally as bad under RINO Bloomberg and psycho Hillary. "They take all our money here too!" Yes Ching Lao, welcome to the land of liberal hell, where the zombie psychos here not only get all there money taken away, but actually ask for it election year after year after year after year.
The street gang boss, Ah Kay, told jurors that his crew specialized in using fishing boats to ferry immigrants from larger vessels to U.S. soil.
He testified that he and Ms. Cheng successfully smuggled hundreds of immigrants into Boston harbour in 1993. He used part of the $750,000 he made from that deal to help finance the Golden Venture.
Weng Yu Hui, another snakehead, described Ms. Cheng's reaction as they watched television news reports on the accident in her Chinatown shop.
“She said her luck has not been very good lately,” the witness testified.
At over $20 grand apiece I have two questions:
#1 Where did they get this kind of extra cash in Communist China?
and
#2 What skills did the ones who made it through have to offer America (engineering, doctor, CHICOM spy)?
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