Posted on 08/20/2020 1:56:58 PM PDT by conservative98
Accused fraudster and former White House strategist Steve Bannon was aboard a $28 million yacht owned by a Chinese billionaire when he was arrested on fraud charges Thursday morning, according to reports.
The 150-foot mega vessel was in the Long Island Sound near Westbrook, Connecticut, when President Trump’s former strategist was picked up by US Postal Service inspectors, the Hartford Courant reported.
The boat, the Lady May, is owned by Guo Wengui, one of China’s most wanted fugitives, who is wanted in Beijing on fraud, blackmail and bribery charges
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
Why were U.S. Postal Inspectors even involved, if there was no mail fraud count in the indictment?
From Bannon's perspective the whole is odd simply because he's the one guy who obviously doesn't need the money. A million dollars is a lot of money, but it's really a small pile of cash in the context of a major Federal investigation like this. State police and DEA agents routinely seize far more than that in a single drug bust on the side of an interstate highway.
We’ll see what happens. People act as if We Build The Wall didn’t build any wall, but they did; https://www.youtube.com/c/WeBuildTheWall/videos
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3594137/posts?page=3#3
This is the dirt.
And it’s not conspiracy; https://asiapowerwatch.com/the-vision-of-the-new-federal-state-of-china/
In the scheme of things they built a tiny amount of wall. And now the feds say it wasn’t built correctly.
The prosecutor chose to file conspiracy to commit mail fraud so that all the defendants are brought in together. There is no practical advantage to charge separate counts of mail fraud.
This might explain it more thoroughly for you:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/the-bannon-indictment/
Watch the videos and prove it wasn’t built correctly. Fischer built it, and they are currently building wall for the government now.
Lots more to the story;
https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/mysterious-new-federal-state-of-china-banners-seen-over-nyc/
FBI investigating, why? Against a free China?
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/506535-fbi-investigating-chinese-media-tycoon-linked-to-bannon-report
Again post 64 is not conspiracy; https://www.thewirechina.com/2020/05/24/steve-bannon-on-hong-kong-covid-19-and-the-war-already-underway/
25 million doesn’t build much border wall, watch the videos and see why.
The link you posted indicates that the charge was conspiracy to commit WIRE fraud, not MAIL fraud. Surely there's a legal distinction between the two ... which is why I asked about the involvement of a U.S. Postal Inspector in a case where wire fraud is alleged but mail fraud is not. That itself seems very odd to me.
Conspiracy to commit mail fraud necessarily INCLUDES mail fraud.
The prosecution must prove 1. A conspiracy 2. Mail fraud.
Guo Wengui has been against the CCP (Chinese government) which Bannon works for him. This was very likely Guo Wengui boat.
I’d take it.
The defendants were charged with conspiracy to commit WIRE fraud ... NOT conspiracy to commit MAIL fraud.
LOL.
It makes little difference because the charge is basically the same. The postal inspectors investigate mail and wire fraud. They are the same thing but using two different methods of communication, the mail or the phone, wire transfers and the like.
(Bannon)...”has consistently made the radical claim that the United States are at risk of becoming a vassal state of China.”
Pay dirt
That and this:
“The boat, the Lady May, is owned by Guo Wengui, one of China’s most wanted fugitives...”
What the hell, Steve?
He has a long business history of having sketchy partners.
The boat, the Lady May, is owned by Guo Wengui, one of China’s most wanted fugitives
Yep. He’s right.
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