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Zhao and Now Kung As Launderer US DEA Did
Its Own Transactions Now Pleas
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
July 8 – Chaoyue Zhao and
Brian Kung are charged with
money
laundering.
On September 20 U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge
Lewis J. Liman held a
proceeding. Inner City Press
covered it.
Earlier in the
year the US Attorney's Office
said "this is a case in which
the DEA obtained what is
called Attorney General exempt
authorization to actually
conduct certain
money-laundering transactions
to develop evidence... Many of
the bank accounts were located
in New York."
Judge Liman
set the case down for trial in
April 2022.
On July 8, the US
Attorney's Office wrote in to
say Zhao will plead guilty on
July 19, and Kung is in
negotiations.
On January 31,
2022 Inner City Press was
covering the SDNY Magistrates
Court when co-defendant Brian
Kung was brought in. He was
wearing an MSA Spartans
sweatshirt and was assigned
the CJA lawyer on duty, who
had just consented to a man on
methadone's detention. Here
the US Attorney Office agreed
to release on $100,000 bond.
And still trial in April?
It is US v. Zhao,
et al., 20-cr-129 (Liman)
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