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Is She's a Spy, She's Not A Very Good One. Sarah Blaskey talks to Armstrong & Getty

Apr 04, 20197 min
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Miami Herald reporter Sarah Blaskey joins Armstrong & Getty to weave together the various tales regarding a suspected Chinese spy at Mar-A-Lago, massage parlors and billionaires.

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Completely different tale, that of the mysterious Chinese woman carrying malware who apparently tried to sneak in Mara Lago while the President was in town. Sarah Blaski joins us. Sarah's a reporter with the Miami Harold. Hello, Sarah, how are you hi? You guys, I'm great, Thanks for having me. Sure, it's our pleasure. So my question, my first question is, well, why don't you outline what happened? And I guess we'll

get into the follow ups. Sure, So we don't have a lot of details, but what we know is on Saturday, around you, a woman tried to get into Moral Lago and she was stopped by Secret Service, obviously because the president and his family were there, and she presented two passports from China um identifying herself as U Jings Dang, and because she had a similar name to someone who apparently is on the guest list at Mara Lago, they let her through. She gets into the sort of secondary

screening area and changes her story. She originally had told these two guys that she was invited and she wanted to use the pool. Um she didn't even have a swimming suit on her so in the second area. She says, essentially, I'm here for I'm here for this um uh US

China Friendship Association event. And they're like, wait what because so because of the sort of difference UM in the story, they started questioning her more, and she eventually, according to the police report, Um became combative when she was asked to leave. I think that means verbally and um. She was eventually arrested. Her things were searched and it turned out she was carrying not a swimming suit, but four cell phones, a computer hard drive, and a sumb drive.

And on that thumb drive there was malware. Now we don't know the nature of that. That could be literally anything an accident to something much more sinister. You know, Sarah, it strikes me that if this woman is a secret agent of some sort, she's very very bad at her Are you kidding? We just caught the Jane bond to

Chinese spies and got lucky. I'm here for the Chinese US friend relations thingy and I do I have a passport, I've got two rights, and pockets full of burner phones and all sorts of I mean, that's say, you know, I'm not a spy, but that's not the way spies do it. I don't think so. Do we have any hints, Sarah, that this person might just be a whacka do? I mean, it's it's possible. We actually don't know anything more about her. Um. Federal authorities are being kind of you know, page with

details at this point, as you can understand. UM. But but the truth day is, we just know she's a thirty two year old woman who was trying to enter mar Lago. But what I will say is is we've been talking about Cindy Yang for a couple of weeks, this massage parlor owner who has sort of recently rebranded herself as someone that can get Chinese executive access to Donald Trump, and she's been selling that access at mar Lago and connected to the what's his name just popped

out of my head? Is that the Yeah? So she runs that chain massage parlor. How does that factor into this story? She was at the Chinese American Friendship Conference. Well, actually she is, um business associates with a man who runs the US Chinese Friendship Association. Sorry, it's called the

Nation's Friendship Association. It's the summit that they were holding that day was like this US China Friendship Summit summit, and Cindy Yang had been promoting that event um in recent weeks on her UM political consulting website where she sells this access um sort of saying this is a chance to meet high ranking members of Congress. Um. You know, come one, come on, come one, come all. So she runs brothels on the side and then does this as her main job, or well, we can't say that she

runs brought so I can say anything. Quote you know is that she at one time owned the spa where Robert Kraft was Um was busted a couple of months so um, but she continues to own several spas in Florida that all go by the name Tokyo Jay Spa and and those spots are not related to the current bust, but they have been investigated themselves separately in recent years

for similar issues law enforcements. Sarah Blastky as a reporter for the Miami Harold, I would ask my co host if you could refrain from staining our guests with your slanders. I would appreciate it. Uh. Now, Sarah, question on the whole chain of massage parlors there our question has been why are the super rich in some cases going to like low rent strip mall. You know, Robin tugs is the course term, and I hate to use it, but do we have any idea why that's the place of

choice for the rich and powerful? I think that's the question and everyone has been asking, and if you know the answer, please tell me off the air that story. So if I had billions of dollars, I wouldn't be, you know, schluffing into some strip mall. Okay, so, but so you since you're in the area, everybody is wondering why the owner of the Patriots on the day of an important game, why a different professional golfer, wire different billionaire all got busted there? It doesn't make sense. I

mean to give you this straight answer here. What we've heard from experts is that massage parlors are incredibly safe places for a john to get sexual favors. And the reason is it's really hard for someone to pose. For an undercover cop to pose as a massage parlor missus, I mean, how would they get in, how would they establish that? You know, It's just it's it's much harder than say an undercover cops standing on the street soliciting right or sending an ad on the Internet saying meet

me at this hotel. That makes perfect sense. Okay, But but there's gotta be something about that particular one. I mean, if that area is like any other urban area, I'm aware of their Yelp previews, there are hundreds of them, and how they all ended up with that same one just seems odd to me. Oh, I agree. And you know, if it weren't for that, we wouldn't know anything about Cyndi Yang. And so she may just be the most unlucky woman in the world that formerly owned a spa.

Whereas this guy, Robert Craft just happened to get busted. We really don't know what drew him there. On Sarah Blaski with the Miami Herald, Sarah, great job. You really enjoyed talking with you. Thanks a Milian, thanks for having me. You see, I think I think she enjoyed us at first, and she tired of my act. Yes, your act I think is correct. Near Slanders

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