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Chinese woman arrested at Mar-a-Lago while Trump was in town (Spy?)
Palm Beach Post ^ | 4-2-2019 | Jane Musgrave

Posted on 04/02/2019 2:11:23 PM PDT by tcrlaf

A 32-year-old Chinese woman, who said she wanted to talk to President Trump’s family about economic relations between the United States and her home country, lied her way into Mar-a-Lago over the weekend before she was arrested, U.S. Secret Service agents said.

Yujing Zhang, who said she was sent by a fellow Chinese national named Charles, was charged with making false statements to a federal officer and entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds. She appeared in U.S. District Court on Monday and a public defender was appointed to represent her.

She is to return to court next week for a hearing to determine whether she will be released from custody. If convicted, she faces a maximum five-year prison sentence.

Agents said they seized four cell phones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive and a thumb drive from Zhang. An examination of the thumb drive showed it contained malicious malware, agents said SNIP

Stopped at a security checkpoint across from Mar-a-Lago at about noon Saturday, Zhang initially told agents that she wanted to use the pool at the club, agents wrote. She presented the agents with two passports from the Republic of China to confirm her identity, they said.

A manager at the club thought Zhang was related to a club member who shared the same last name and cleared her to come in. But when Zhang got to the reception desk, she changed her story, agents said.

Instead of visiting the pool, Zhang said she had come to the club to attend a United Nations Chinese American Association event. Knowing there was no such event planned, the receptionist summoned federal agents.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 201904; aliens; china; chinese; florida; harddrive; isolatedincidents; lago; malware; maralago; roc; spies; spooks; spy; taiwan; thaiwan; thumbdrive; trump; yujingzhang; zhang
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To: John Leland 1789

I believe that is incorrect.

Writer is very likely wrong. She travelled from the mainland, and “zhang” í the PRC way of spelling that name.


21 posted on 04/02/2019 4:04:14 PM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: tcrlaf

Instead of visiting the pool, Zhang said she had come to the club to attend a United Nations Chinese American Association event. Knowing there was no such event planned, the receptionist summoned federal agents.

give that girl a raise


22 posted on 04/02/2019 4:56:04 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Fedora; TigerLikesRooster

ping


23 posted on 04/02/2019 6:51:25 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: thinden
"Could be a test run (ala 9/11) ......."

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Hmmmm ....

24 posted on 04/03/2019 12:10:19 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: GMMC0987

............. culprit sending the treat

25 posted on 04/03/2019 12:13:54 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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