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Here's the Palm Beach Post story @ missing money from the inaugural ball sponsored by National Committee of Asian American Republicans for 900 ppl @ $75/pp. The money is nowhere to be found..Reported by @maddow 4/12/19. #SundayMorning palmbeachpost.com/news/20190412/…
2-"Cindy Yang, the one-time head of fundraising for the comm hosted the gala. Her access to Trump through his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach & involvement in groups linked to the Chinese Communist Party prompted top congressional Democrats to seek a fed investigation."
3-"..the guests included several Chinese nationals.. Foreign nationals are barred from donating to American political committees.Without public receipts, there’s no way to know who gave money and if any laws were broken."
4-"The group collected money, organizer Li said, but it didn’t go to the registered committee.When asked to explain, he wouldn’t.“The money went to the right account legally, but I just don’t have to tell you where that is,” Li told The Post."
5-"Three months after the gala, Osborne, who did not respond to a phone call or email seeking comment, registered as a lobbyist for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which includes Saipan, the Pacific island that U.S. Marines took during World War II and where
6-"the casino that backed the gala has grown to be among the most profitable in the world. He lobbied for a bill, later signed by Trump, that opened avenues for several gala sponsors to employ Chinese and Filipino laborers for hotel and casino construction jobs."
7-"..Two months after the January 2017 inaugural gala, FBI agents raided Imperial Pacific offices in Saipan, Bloomberg reported. Federal prosecutors charged contractors employed by Imperial Pacific with hiring and harboring workers brought in illegally on tourist visas."
8-"The law signed by Trump in July 2018 offered businesses an avenue to avoid illegally bringing in cheap foreign labor. Known as the Northern Mariana Workforce Act, it expanded the number of visa waivers Pacific Island businesses can request to employ foreign workers.
9-"Imperial Pacific & at least 4 other hotel, casino/dock operators that sponsored the inaugural gala, rely heavily on foreign labor to build projects in the remote Northern Mariana Islands & Guam, U.S. terr that are closer to Taiwan & China than they are to the continental US"
