The Chinese Spy relaxed his hand and the money was exchanged. Zhong raised at least $8.5 million from Chinese investors through the U.S. EB-5 visa

Barack Obama understands the EB-5 Visa Plan as foreign nationals buy their way into America operatives from  China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Korea and others play the game and are living in cities, towns and villages across America.  

The Chinese Spy relaxed his hand and the money was exchanged.  The five brown envelopes kept together by rubber bands were stuffed with one thousand dollar bills and the FBI was watching and recording the transaction as another U.S. Citizen was created. 

The EB-5 Visa program by the United States Government was started for a reason and the deal being struck behind the Chinese restaurant was not the outcome that was expected.

If a foreigner had enough cash money you can actually buy U.S. Citizenship by registering under the EB-5 U.S. Visa program and that's exactly what Chinese operatives have been doing for years.

If you could invest $500,000.00 in a U.S. business and create at least 10 jobs you could gain your green card, it was that simple.  The five brown envelopes held more than enough money in thousand dollar bills and would be deposited in the bank down the street in less than an hour.  It was enough money, it was just in time.

The Mexican received the cash from the Chinese to allow him to start a business in downtown Jacksonville Florida and hire dozens of people at the minimum wage rate.  The Mexican would open an importing business and operate out of a warehouse about a mile or so from downtown, they planned on hiring at least one hundred people in time, all from Mexico with a few Chinese sprinkled in to run the real business.

In less than 120 days the Mexican would become a legal U.S. Citizens with all the rights allowed by the Constitution but he wouldn't be registering for welfare.  He would hide Chinese spy's within his business that would spread out across America taking pictures, leaving other envelopes around filled with thousand dollar bills.

This one Mexican, with money from the Chinese, planned on starting at least 100 brand new businesses inside America and having at least ten thousand employees within a three year period.  They would all be American based businesses, buying technology, shipping sensitive materials around the world, the first stop was Iran.

Port St. Lucie, a disparate series of residential developments and strip malls, had little to boast beyond its proximity to a nuclear plant and its fame as the spring training home of the New York Mets. Then Lily Zhong came to town, plunked down $500,000 for vacant land and promised to finally build a real downtown.

She produced renderings, showing modern, multistory buildings rising along wide, pedestrian-friendly streets, where people would shop, do business, dine out and attend special events, said Gregory Oravec, mayor of the city of 174,000. Home to thousands of retirees, Port St. Lucie sorely needed a gathering spot to bind the community, he said.

“The big idea was to create a sense of place, to put a ‘there’ there,” he said.

But instead of building that downtown, federal authorities say Zhong hoodwinked officials as part of an elaborate scheme to defraud investors using a special visa program that allows wealthy foreigners to become permanent U.S. residents by financing job-creating projects.

Zhong raised at least $8.5 million from Chinese investors through the U.S. EB-5 visa program and improperly used some of it on personal expenses such as luxury cars, a home and a boat, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a civil complaint against her.

The SEC obtained a federal court order in November freezing Zhong’s assets. Through her lawyer, Zhong, who is of Chinese descent and holds New Zealand citizenship, has denied the allegations. She is not charged with any crime.

Despite this denial of wrongdoing, the New York Post goes on to describe case as “one of several around the country” in which EB-5 visas have been used to “defraud hundreds of investors out of tens of millions of dollars, from San Francisco to Chicago, by dangling a chance at U.S. residency.”

The idea behind the EB-5 program is that foreigners who agree to invest a certain amount of money in the United States, and create a certain amount of cards, get quickie green cards for themselves and their families, followed by a chance at permanent residency. 

The thresh-hold stipulated by Congress is $1 million investment for a project that creates at least 10 jobs, but some areas and industries have different levels.  In Port St. Lucie, only a $500,000 investment was needed to qualify.

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