Thread by @MsMariaT

Senior Trump official Mina Chang embellished résumé, lied about being a Harvard biz alum and War College grad, had face on fake Time cover nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

Mina Chang. Dallas. CEO of Linking the World she says.

Benefactor: Brian Bulatao. Also of Dallas. Old Mike Pompeo biz partner in his failed, Koch-sponsored aviation biz. (Notice Brechbul there, too, State Dept #UkraineScandal witness.)

Bulatao bid on items for her “charity” gave $5500 to the group.

Said she was a graduate at yhe Army War College...in reality, did a 4-day seminar there 🙄 No undergrad degree mentioned, yet an unaccredited Christian school with volunteer teachers, was. OMG, someone really screwed up.

"A spokesman told NBC the school grants “alumni status" to anyone who attends one of the school’s education programs. Chang took a seven-week course there in 2016, NBC reported."

WOW!

dallasnews.com/news/2019/11/1…

"A 2014 profile about Chang in the Dallas Observer reported that she was an *int'l pop singer* before becoming CEO of her nonprofit, recording albums in Korean & English....She told the Observer she was undergoing chemotherapy after she had received a diagnosis of brain cancer."

Here's that 2014 Dallas Observer profile of Mina Chang:

"Singer-Turned-Activist Mina Chang Now Faces the Biggest Challenge of Her Life"

dallasobserver.com/arts/singer-tu…

features.dallasobserver.com/people_2014/

"she got the whole world, in her hands..."

Oh boy.

Mina Chang's Linking the World Site.

linkingtheworld.org

Lists Akin Gump as a partner.

Mina Chang wants you to see her cover on YEC magazine

Young Entrepreneur Council is an "invitation-only" fee-based organization.

linkingtheworld.org/pressrelease/o…

Linking the World's 2015 990 tax return, courtesy of @MountainsStars, TY!

Took in $257K, total exps $221K. Ends up with net assets of roughly $20K, lol.

projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/dis…

@MountainsStars *ONE* event listed, for the whole year (2015).

I don't have much experience with tax returns @MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon - what else is jumping out at you? 🤔

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon Family member is her photographer, convenient!

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon Mina Chang: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

heavy.com/news/2019/11/m…

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon "Chang also attended the University of Nations, a Christian school that is staffed by volunteer teachers. Chang said in a 2014 interview that she has a degree in int'l dev from the University of Hawaii."

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon (UofN) "Pac & Asia Christian University (PACU) was founded in 1978 in Kona....founded to train students in ministering the love of Christ and teaching others according to the command of Christ to make disciples of all nations, in all spheres of society."

uofn.edu/about

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon "Chang serves not only as the U.S. amb of Linking the World, running aid teams in Africa, Thailand and mostly Haiti, but also as the int'l org's president in Dallas....started in *1997*...

She's 35. That makes her AGED THIRTEEN, at the time.

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@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon "With a degree in int'l dev from the University of HI concentrating on mission work and aid practices, Chang took a bit of a detour before finding her path. During her studies, she’d written songs for artists in South Korea but then got picked up as an artist herself while..."

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon "....waiting to be able to enter post-tsunami Thailand. For two tours and several albums, Chang was a Korean pop star. But while most would cite the money and fame as motivation, young Chang had less common ulterior motives."

Recall, she said she was Dx w/brain Cancer in 2014.

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon "Chang also says on that page that she is a graduate of Southern Methodist Univ. Chang also writes at length on her LinkedIn page about her work with the UN. In particular, Chang says that she worked with humanitarian relief in the organization."

heavy.com/news/2019/11/m…

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon Mina Chang video where her fake Time cover is splashed on screen (at 4:50)

Global Outlook Interview with Mary Sit, 1/17

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon Mina Chang's husband, is also founder of a charity.

Chang is married to Jake Harriman. According to his Twitter page, he is the founder of Nuru International, a charity that seeks to end extreme poverty in Kenya and Ethiopia."

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon Charity is based in Irvine, CA.

nuruinternational.org

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon Jake grad'd w/distinction from the US Naval Academy and served 7.5 yrs as an Infantry and Special Ops Platoon Commander in the Marine Corps....Jake left the military and enrolled at Stanford Graduate School of Business to found Nuru Int'l."

nuruinternational.org/about-us/team/

@MountainsStars @mrspanstreppon The conversation in their home will be interesting tonight.