Cindy Yang poses with Donald Trump.Cindy Yang/Facebook
This is the strange, swampy saga of President Donald Trump and a Florida spa entrepreneur.
Li “Cindy” Yang is the former owner of the Jupiter, Florida, massage parlor where New England Patriots owner Bob Kraft was busted in February for allegedly soliciting prostitution. (She sold this location around 2012, and Kraft has denied the allegations.) Yang landed in the news after the Miami Herald published photos of Yang posing with President Trump and other Republican notables.
But there was more to the story. In 2017, Yang and her husband had formed a business, GY US Investments LLC, that offered clients opportunities to “interact with the president…and other political figures” at Mar-a-Lago.
Here’s what we know so far about this Mar-a-Lago mystery woman:
TIMELINE
March 9: A Florida Massage Parlor Owner Has Been Selling Chinese Execs Access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago
March 10: The Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Trump Has Ties to Chinese Government-Linked Groups
March 12: White House: Trump “Doesn’t Know” the Massage Parlor Owner Peddling Access to Him
March 15: Head of Asian GOP Group Says He “Wouldn’t Rule Out” Illegal Foreign Donations to Trump
March 18: Dems Ask FBI to Investigate Massage Parlor Owner Who Was Selling Access to Trump
March 21: Chinese Influence Group Shuts Down After Report on Cindy Yang’s Ties
April 2: A New Chinese Mystery at Mar-a-Lago
April 3: Senate Democrats Urge FBI to Assess Security at Mar-a-Lago
