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U.S. Navy Officer, His Wife, and Two Chinese Nationals Charged with Conspiring to Smuggle
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| November 1, 2019
| DOJ
Posted on 11/02/2019 3:06:58 PM PDT by ransomnote
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Excerpt: The four defendants charged in the indictment are:
Fan Yang, 34, a naturalized citizen of the United States and Lieutenant in the United States Navy residing in Jacksonville, Florida; Yang Yang, 33, wife of Fan Yang, and a naturalized citizen of the United States residing in Jacksonville, Florida; Ge Songtao, 49, a citizen and resident of the Peoples Republic of China; and Zheng Yan, 27, a citizen and resident of the Peoples Republic of China.
The defendants were arrested on Oct. 17, 2019, and are currently detained.
All four defendants have been charged with conspiring to submit false export information and to fraudulently attempt to export articles from the United States. Additionally, Yang Yang, Ge Songtao, and Zheng Yan have been charged with causing the submission of false and misleading information into the U.S. Automated Export System, and fraudulently attempting to export seven vessels and eight engines. If convicted for conspiracy or for the submission of false export information, the charged defendants each face a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. If convicted on the attempted-smuggling charge, the defendants each face a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison.
To: Travis McGee
Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers and U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez for the Middle District of Florida announces the return of an indictment today of four individuals, including two Chinese nationals, an active-duty United States Navy officer, and his wife, on charges relating to a conspiracy to unlawfully smuggle military-style inflatable boats, with Evinrude MFE military outboard motors, to the Peoples Republic of China. ... Well, this is unusual...
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:10:19 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: ransomnote
I understand the necessity of keeping US military equipment out of the hands of foreigners, but it’s a rubber boat and an Evinrude motor.
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:11:23 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
To: ransomnote
If they were smuggling ETEC engines drag them out and shoot them. Then sell me one cheap.
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:11:29 PM PDT
by
Equine1952
(Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
To: Blood of Tyrants
I think this kind of equipment is used to board freighters (e.g., Somalia, piraters).
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:12:50 PM PDT
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: ransomnote
“This case was investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security; and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It will be prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael Coolican and Heather Schmidt, Senior Trial Attorney, Counterintelligence and Export Section, U.S. Department of Justice.”
But is there consensus?
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:14:05 PM PDT
by
rockinqsranch
("Democratic" party sold out to the ICP. It is now the Communist Party USA.)
To: ransomnote
“Fan Yang” So much loyalty and diversity and it isn’t just the Chinese. “Fail”
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:18:05 PM PDT
by
DAC21
( and Naflet)
To: ransomnote
I’m thinkin’ someone just wanted a free little nifty inflatable & motor and had a relative-based inside source.
Still a crime, of course.
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:18:47 PM PDT
by
Da Coyote
(is)
To: ransomnote
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:21:11 PM PDT
by
Jane Austen
(Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
To: ransomnote
Fan Yang, 34, a naturalized citizen of the United States and Lieutenant in the United States Navy residing in Jacksonville, Florida; Yang Yang, 33, wife of Fan Yang Sounds like a pair of pandas
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:22:08 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: ransomnote
Chinese Navy officer stabbing Us in the back. Fits right in with the Ukrainian Army lieutenant colonel who was hired by the British born NSC advisor.
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:22:38 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: ransomnote
China just doing China things.
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:23:23 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: ransomnote
China is flooding this country with spies and we have allowed it.
Its been there strategy and Bushes and Obama and Clinton are fine with it
All of the Chinese are spies unless they have been here fir a few generations .
They are just moles here for the CCP .
China are stealing our jobs , our kids future , our universities , and sending it back to the Communist China .
Send all these spies back .
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:24:15 PM PDT
by
ncalburt
(Gop DC Globalists)
To: ransomnote
export seven vessels and eight engines.
The Chicoms should have just ordered them from Bass Pro Shops........
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:25:46 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I'm in the cleaning business.......I launder money)
To: ransomnote
All Chinese invaders should be banned from our military !
Our we suicidal .
That is how Rome crashed .
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:26:44 PM PDT
by
ncalburt
(Gop DC Globalists)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Just some Chinese in their perpetual quest for bigger dinghies.
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:29:44 PM PDT
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
To: Da Coyote
Perhaps the chinks do not make either? Look at LTC Vindman who moved here at age 3. Tell me all about assimilation and learning OUR ways? Hand ALL plus Vindman over to the stockade there.I recall hangings at
Leavenworth. Hillary should be hung ASAP for TREASON.
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:32:30 PM PDT
by
Lumper20
(Our Congress must be stripped of FERS and AFGE union insurance..)
To: Lumper20
Hyphenated ‘Americans’ are always questionable.
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:36:51 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Hot Tabasco
100%... i mean WTF???
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:39:14 PM PDT
by
Chode
(Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
To: ransomnote
But you can get those practically anywhere.
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posted on
11/02/2019 3:42:00 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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