CCP, CHINA, Chinese food Restaurants for USA & Mexico & Latin America's Drug Money Laundering, STEALING THE AMERICAN DREAM.

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Over the years, I observed an awful lot of Chinese restaurants open for a short time, then suddenly go out of business.
I became curious.

Chinese money laundering in chinese restaurants in usa today

That is how CCP money laundering has been done.
The "tells" for me was, there was no news reported, no complaints from the Chinese business community.
Trump was behind the 2020 report which this report references. During the 2020 CCP led Saint Groyd riots their CCP operatives were targeting the destruction of court houses, where computer files were held, also police stations were destroyed.

IRS IS AFTER THESE CCP CHINESE SHYSTERS, aka Transnational Organized Crime Syndicates.

This is a PDF file, 6 pages.

https://oversight.house.gov › wp-content › uploads › 2023 › 04 › Hearing-on-Chinese-Money-Laundering-Mavrellis-Written-Testimony-4.26.2023-FINAL.pdf

China in Our Backyard: How Chinese Money Laundering Organizations​

How does China use its economic power to facilitate money laundering and evade sanctions? This is the question that Charles Mavrellis, a global financial crime expert, addressed in his written testimony to the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in April 2023.

April 26, 2023
Chairwoman McClain, Ranking Member Porter, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee on
Health Care and Financial Services, it is an honor and privilege to testify before you today about Chinese
money laundering organizations.
In the last few years, reporting has increased on the involvement of Chinese money laundering
organizations (CMLOs) with the laundering of narcotics proceeds in the Western Hemisphere.
However, this is not a new phenomenon. The Treasury’s 2020 National Strategy for Combating Terrorist
and Other Illicit Financing noted the increase in complex money laundering schemes involving Chinese
citizens residing in the U.S. who, acting as money brokers, laundered drug-related cash proceeds via trade-
related schemes in order to repatriate money to Mexico.1 Additionally, Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA) annual National Drug Threat Assessments (NDTAs) have reported the involvement of CMLOs
offering their services to Mexican, Colombian, and Dominican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs)
since at least 2016.2

More importantly, the drivers behind the involvement of CMLOs in the laundering of narcotics proceeds
in the Western Hemisphere are solidly linked to other countries’ domestic policies, not U.S. immigration
or border policies.

Specifically, China’s economic policy in regards to foreign exchange controls prevents money from freely
moving into or out of the country unless it abides by strict rules. For individuals, the Chinese State
Administration of Foreign Exchange regulations set in 2017 cap foreign exchange transactions at roughly
US$50,000 per year. Those Chinese citizens seeking to exchange or transfer in excess of that amount
frequently turn to informal means, which I’ll discuss shortly.

Additionally, Mexico adopted a stricter anti-money laundering/countering the financing of terrorism
(AML/CFT) policy in 2010 by placing stringent restrictions on the deposit of U.S. dollars into Mexican bank
accounts, for example limiting individual account holders to no more than US$4,000 in cash per month.3
This policy was intended to combat narcotics-related bulk cash, which it did. However, it also caused
cartels looking to move and launder narcotics proceeds to search for new strategies, such as the use of
CMLOs.
At the same time, Colombia has taken steps to develop “one of Latin America’s most rigorous AML
regimes,”
according to a recent U.S. International Narcotics Control Strategy Report.4 While the Colombian

References for page 1:
1 U.S. Department of the Treasury, National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing, 2020
(Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Treasury, 2020), 24,
2 Drug Enforcement Administration, National Drug Threat Assessment 2016 (Washington, D.C.: Drug Enforcement
Administration, 2016), https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/DIR-001-17_2016_NDTA_Summary.pdf.
3 Regulations additionally limit Mexican citizens that are non-account holders to deposits of no more than
US$1,500 monthly, and businesses can deposit up to US$14,000 cash, however exceptions are allowed if
businesses meet stringent criteria. “Mexico - Foreign Exchange Controls,” Privacy Shield, accessed April 24, 2023,

Privacy Shield

www.privacyshield.gov www.privacyshield.gov
4 U.S. Department of State, International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Volume II: Money Laundering, 2020
(Washington, D.C.: Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State,
2020), 82, https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Tab-2-INCSR-Vol-2-508.pdf.


You can download and read the rest
 
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Boston Chinatown restaurant served as front for global money laundering ...​

Aug 1, 2022 August 1, 2022. A family-owned restaurant in Boston's Chinatown allegedly served as the headquarters of international money laundering and transmitting schemes that reaped tens of millions of ...

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Chicago restaurant owner admits wire fraud, money laundering​

CHICAGO (AP) — The chef-owner of several Chicago-area Chinese restaurants has pleaded guilty to allegations that he underpaid state taxes by not reporting all cash receipts. Tony Hu pleaded guilty Monday to one count each of wire fraud and money laundering. Sentencing guidelines call for Hu to

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6 Profitability Secrets Chinese Restaurants Don't Want You to Know​

Many Chinese restaurants operate on a "cash only" basis, which also allows for some wildly creative accounting, and among some restaurants, may create opportunities for lucrative side businesses laundering money for your town's more unsavory elements.

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Singapore's biggest money-laundering case has links to Chinese gamblers​

Nov 2, 2023 Italy and Spain recently announced crackdowns on Chinese money-laundering networks. They will all struggle. Only 2-5% of money-laundering flows are intercepted, says John Langdale of Macquarie ...

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Triads, Snakeheads, and Flying Money: The Underworld of Chinese​

Sep 27, 2023 Many of these migrants rely on Chinese restaurants along the route to retrieve money from Chinese payment apps like WeChat or Alipay and to contact known smugglers.68 Some coyotes promise they can get the Chinese to Miami in just a few hours, but Chinese migrants are often robbed69 or forced to pay thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars ...

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How is China involved in organized crime in Mexico? | Brookings​

Chinese foreign direct investments in Mexico tallied $189 billion in 2020. But, while legitimate commerce between Mexico and China is growing, Chinese groups are also becoming more involved in ...

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Cornerstone January 2024 Issue #48

Feb 1, 2024 Chinese Money Laundering Organizations (CMLOs) - Use of Counterfeit Chinese Passports . ... For example, in September 2023, a Chinese national claiming to be a cook at a Chinese restaurant opened a checking account at a U.S. financial institution using a fraudulent Chinese
 
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These cases are who the IRS was going after.

Nevada owner of three Mexican restaurants sentenced to prison for tax evasion | Internal Revenue Service

January 4, 2024 — A Nevada restaurant owner was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for skimming $5 million dollars in cash sales and filing false federal income tax returns with an overall tax loss of $1.6 million dollars over a five-year period.
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Nevada owner of three Mexican restaurants sentenced to prison for tax

Defendant caused a tax loss of 1.6 million dollars​

Date: January 4, 2024
Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov

A Nevada restaurant owner was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for skimming $5 million dollars in cash sales and filing false federal income tax returns with an overall tax loss of $1.6 million dollars over a five-year period.

According to court documents, Raul Gil owned and operated three Casa Don Juan restaurants in Las Vegas. From 2014 through 2018, Gil instructed his manager/internal bookkeeper to create false sales numbers for his restaurants that underreported cash sales at the restaurants by approximately $5.1 million. Then, Gil provided the false sales records to an outside tax return preparer who prepared his federal income tax returns.

In July 2018, during an audit, Gil instructed his accountant to provide to the IRS false profit and loss statements that matched the figures reported on the tax returns. Gil also directed his bookkeeper to provide to the IRS false daily cash and sales reports purportedly printed from the restaurants' point-of-sale systems. During interviews with the IRS, Gil falsely stated to the revenue agent conducting the audit, and later to IRS-Criminal

Investigation special agents, that the falsified daily cash reports and point-of-sale records were accurate. In total, Gil caused a tax loss to the IRS of approximately $1.6 million.

In addition to the prison sentence, United States District Judge Andrew P. Gordon ordered Gil to serve three years of supervised release and to pay $2,228,943.65 in restitution.

Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department's Tax Division, United States Attorney Jason M. Frierson for the District of Nevada, and IRS CI Phoenix Field Office Acting Special Agent in Charge Carissa Messick made the announcement.
The case was investigated by the IRS CI. Trial Attorney Thomas Flynn of the Tax Division and Assistant U.S. Attorney Tony Lopez of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada prosecuted the case.​
 

Long Island man sentenced to 10 years in prison for sprawling COVID-19 loan fraud | Internal Revenue Service

March 15, 2024 — Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Rami Saab, also known as “Rami Hasan,” was sentenced by United States District Judge Gary R. Brown to 10 years in prison for his role as the mastermind of a sprawling conspiracy to fraudulently obtain disaster relief...
www.irs.gov www.irs.gov

Date: March 15, 2024


Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov


Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Rami Saab, also known as “Rami Hasan,” was sentenced by United States District Judge Gary R. Brown to 10 years in prison for his role as the mastermind of a sprawling conspiracy to fraudulently obtain disaster relief loans amid the COVID-19 pandemic. As part of the sentence he is also required to pay restitution of approximately $9.6 million. Saab pleaded guilty in July 2023 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, stemming from his operation of a yearlong scheme to defraud banks and the Small Business Association (SBA) of millions of dollars’ worth of small business loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program (EIDL). A second defendant charged in the indictment remains at large.
“Opportunists like Saab continue to victimize the American taxpayer by pulling from benefits they don’t legitimately qualify for just to satisfy their own greed.
 
WIRETAPPED THE MEXICAN

Columbus, Ohio, resident sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for trafficking of cocaine into Western Pennsylvania | Internal Revenue Service

March 13, 2024 — A resident of Columbus, Ohio, has been sentenced in federal court to 135 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, United...
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Columbus, Ohio, resident sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for trafficking of cocaine into Western Pennsylvania​


Date: March 13, 2024
Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov
Pittsburgh, PA — A resident of Columbus, Ohio, has been sentenced in federal court to 135 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, on his conviction for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, United States Attorney Eric G. Olshan announced today.
United States District Judge J. Nicholas Ranjan imposed the sentence on Norberto Castillo-Lopez, who was found guilty of the charge during a three-day jury trial in November 2023.
The evidence introduced during that trial established that Castillo-Lopez was the organizer and leader of an organization that was trafficking kilogram-quantities of cocaine from Columbus, Ohio, into the Western District of Pennsylvania. Beginning in December of 2019 and continuing through August of 2020, the Drug Enforcement Administration received authorization to conduct a Title III wiretap investigation into that organization, and Castillo-Lopez was intercepted agreeing to supply kilograms of cocaine to his co-conspirator, whose role was to redistribute Castillo-Lopez’s cocaine to lower-level distributors [LIKELY GANGS] for resale in the cities of New Castle and Farrell. In September 2020, investigators executed a search warrant at Castillo-Lopez’s residence and recovered cocaine, bulk United States currency, and a kilogram wrapper.
In imposing the sentence, Judge Ranjan referenced the severity of the offense.
 
NIGERIAN NAMED BLACKS

Romance scammer sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, ordered to pay $2.2m in restitution | Internal Revenue Service

March 19, 2024 — An Aubrey woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.2 million in restitution for defrauding elderly victims in romance schemes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.
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Romance scammer sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, ordered to pay $2.2m in restitution​


Date: March 19, 2024

An Aubrey woman was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.2 million in restitution for defrauding elderly victims in romance schemes, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.

Ijeoma Okoro was indicted in September 2021 and proceeded to trial in December 2023. After seven days of trial and 10 hours of deliberation, a jury convicted her of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. She was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge David Godbey to 10 years on each count, to run concurrently.

According to evidence presented at trial, Ms. Okoro and other fraudsters assumed fake names and trolled dating sites like Match.com and Zoosk, searching for targets.

Once the fraudsters ingratiated themselves to their often divorced or widowed victims with promises of long-term commitment, the fraudsters concocted elaborate stories about why they needed financial assistance. A common story was that the fraudster had to travel overseas for work and was unable to access his bank accounts. As a part of the story, the fraudster often claimed to experience an unexpected work-related crisis or a sudden family medical emergency. The fraudster then asked the victims for money to cover the expenses and promised to repay them in the near future.

Trusting victims sent thousands of dollars to bank accounts opened by the defendant and her coconspirators in the Northern District of Texas. The defendant then distributed the fraudulent proceeds to coconspirators and retained a portion for herself.

At Monday’s sentencing hearing, Chief Judge Godbey applied a sentencing enhancement for the defendant’s obstruction of the administration of justice, finding that Ms. Okoro committed perjury when she testified at trial that she never conspired with anyone to commit fraud or money laundering.

To date, four other codefendants have also been convicted for their involvement in the scheme, including: David Animashaun, sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud;
Oluwalobamise Michael Moses, sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud;
Emanuel Stanley Orji, sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud; and
Frederick Orji, sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The remaining indicted codefendant,
Chukwuemeka Orji, remains a fugitive.
 
"I'm Still Dancing" EAST INDIAN HINDU EXTRADITED TO USA

“Banmeet Singh is designated as a Consolidated Priority Target, which makes him one of the most significant drug trafficking threats in the world,”

Defendant pleads guilty in dark web narcotics case involving largest cryptocurrency seizure of $150 million in drug proceeds | Internal Revenue Service

Jan. 26, 2024 — An Indian national pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court here today to running a dark web narcotics conspiracy that moved hundreds of kilograms and tens of thousands of pills of controlled substances throughout the United States and established a multi-million-dollar drug...
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Defendant pleads guilty in dark web narcotics case involving largest cryptocurrency seizure of $150 million in drug proceeds​


Date: Jan. 26, 2024
Contact: newsroom@ci.irs.gov

Columbus, OH — An Indian national pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court here today to running a dark web narcotics conspiracy that moved hundreds of kilograms and tens of thousands of pills of controlled substances throughout the United States and established a multi-million-dollar drug enterprise. According to the DEA, this case involves the largest single cryptocurrency and cash seizure in DEA history; the defendant has forfeited cryptocurrency accounts that ultimately became worth $150 million.

Specifically, Banmeet Singh of Haldwani, India, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

According to court documents, Singh created vendor marketing sites on dark web marketplaces such as Silk Road 1, Silk Road 2, Alpha Bay, Hansa and others, to sell controlled substances, including fentanyl, LSD, ecstasy, Xanax, Ketamine and Tramadol.

Customers ordered controlled substances from Singh using the vendor sites and by paying with cryptocurrency. Singh then personally shipped or arranged the shipment of controlled substances from Europe to the United States through U.S. mail or other shipping services.

From at least mid-2012 through July 2017, Singh controlled at least eight distribution cells within the United States, including one in Columbus. Other distribution cells were in Florida, North Carolina, Maryland, New York, North Dakota and Washington. Individuals in those distribution cells received drug shipments from overseas and then re-packaged and re-shipped the drugs to locations in all 50 states, Canada, England, Ireland, Jamaica, Scotland and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Singh was arrested in London in April 2019 and the government secured his extradition to the United States in 2023. Singh is one of eight defendants who were members of this drug trafficking organization who have been convicted of drug trafficking charges throughout the United States.

“In the Singh organization’s drug orders, the members frequently used the vendor name ‘Liston’ and signed off with the signature phrase, ‘I’m still dancing.’ Today, with Banmeet Singh’s plea of guilty, the dance is over,” said U.S. Attorney Kenneth L. Parker.

“Banmeet Singh and traffickers like him think they can operate anonymously on the dark web and evade prosecution,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Nicole M. Argentieri of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Today’s guilty plea, which includes forfeiture of approximately $150 million in cryptocurrency, demonstrates that the Justice Department will hold criminals who violate U.S. law accountable no matter how they conceal their activity. Together with our international partners, we will continue to find criminals lurking in the darkness and bring their crimes to light.”

“Banmeet Singh is designated as a Consolidated Priority Target, which makes him one of the most significant drug trafficking threats in the world,” said DEA Special Agent in Charge Orville O. Greene. “He is responsible for shipping massive quantities of deadly drugs throughout the United States, mostly purchased on the internet and sent through the mail. His criminal enterprise has caused untold suffering to perhaps tens of thousands of people throughout the country. Along with our global network of law enforcement partners, the investigation into his associates will continue, wherever they operate, until the threat to our communities has been stopped.”
 
Here is just the short month of February 2024, I broke down only a few. The number of big cases in a full year is staggering.
THIS us why I'm alleging all those new IRS agents were hired.
I have a theory on why the scare tactics were done and news media was given a story which appeared to be focused on regular people. These big guys knew they were a big target and would start checking their operation, start covering up tracks and modifying paperwork, while under this type of stress they will make odd mistakes. IRS auditors know the patterns and what to look for.

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