Speaking of the Secret Service - Part 2

Okay, I'm back to "brilliant".



Are you kidding me?  WTF?  Was this intentional?  I assume this is a new office since President Jackoff spends so much time at Mar-a-Lago, but WT actual F?

Also, I hate to point out the obvious, but Ivanovich is a Russian name.

The Chinese woman who was arrested after gaining entry to President Trump’s private club while carrying four cellphones and other electronic equipment had stored even more electronics in her hotel room, including a device used to detect hidden cameras, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

The woman, Yujing Zhang, 32, was arrested March 30 after telling Secret Service agents that she had come to use the pool at Mar-a-Lago and showing two Chinese passports. After the authorities determined that the event she said she had come to attend did not exist, she was arrested and charged with lying to a federal officer and accessing a restricted area.

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[Assistant United States Attorney Rolando] Garcia told U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman that Ms. Zhang is a “serious flight risk” because she “lies to everyone that she encounters.”

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Ms. Zhang came to the United States on March 28 from Shanghai on a B-1 visa that has been revoked, meaning that if the court does release her from jail pending trial, she would be transferred to immigration custody, Mr. Garcia said.

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Ms. Zhang’s assistant federal public defender, Robert Adler, said in the court hearing that Ms. Zhang did not attempt to hide the four cellphones when she entered the club.

“We have heard the government has no reason to believe Ms. Zhang was a spy,” Mr. Adler said.

  NYT

We have heard? I'm not sure she's getting the best representation.

The Secret Service agent who questioned Ms. Zhang after her arrest, Samuel Ivanovich, said during testimony that she was not carrying any lock-picking or eavesdropping gear. His four-and-a-half hour interrogation of Ms. Zhang was recorded by video, Mr. Ivanovich said, but it lacked sound because he didn’t realize that the agency’s office in Palm Beach didn’t have that capability.

Mr. Ivanovich testified that the computer analyst who reviewed Ms. Zhang’s devices said that the thumb drive she was carrying had immediately begun installing malware.

“He stated that he had to immediately stop the analysis and shut off his computer to halt the corruption,” Mr. Ivanovich said.

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At her initial court appearance last week, Ms. Zhang told a judge that she was an investor and a consultant for a company called Shanghai Zhirong Asset Management, according to a recording of the court hearing obtained by CNN, and had a home in China worth $1.3 million and a BMW. No one at the company could be reached to confirm her employment.

She also told them "she had only about $5,000 in the bank." She did have $8,000 in cash with her.

When she was questioned by the authorities, Ms. Zhang told them she had been invited to an event at Mar-a-Lago by a friend named Charles whom she knew from an instant-messaging app. The information she gave appears to match a man named Charles Lee, who runs a group called the United Nations Chinese Friendship Association.

Mr. Lee appears to have been promoting a charity event at Mar-a-Lago, advertising it as a business event for Chinese investors. The real event, a “safari night” to benefit a local youth group, had been canceled weeks earlier. Mr. Lee did not return repeated messages seeking comment.

Mr. Adler said his client had wired $20,000 to what he believes is Mr. Lee’s organization in order to visit Florida and have access to Mr. Trump’s family.

Is that what depleted her bank account?

He provided the court with a receipt, printed in Chinese, and said he plans to subpoena Mr. Lee to support his client’s story.

“What did she do that was wrong?” Mr. Adler said. “What she did was the equivalent of saying, ‘My name is Smith, I’d like to use the pool.’”

You know, actually, that's true. But let's get back to that Secret Service office in Palm Springs.

WTF?