Posts Tagged ‘Leland Yee’
Monday, April 7th, 2014
Here are some updates to the story of California Democratic State Senator Leland Yee and Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow’s federal weapons trafficking charges, via Dwight and Instapundit (among others):
“State Sen. Leland Yee spent campaign donations in recent years to travel to the Philippines, the country from which federal authorities accuse him of arranging to smuggle hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of military-style weapons.” (Hat tip: Dwight.)
How did Yee escape terrorism charges? The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is not among the “56 foreign terrorist organizations designated by the U.S. State Department.”
Both Yee and Chow hire new lawyers.
Problem: California Democratic State Senator is illegally trafficking arms to international terrorist groups. Solution: California Democrats ask Obama to ban the import of “assault weapons.” It’s like Al Capone’s fellow mobsters making an impassioned plea for stricter laws on bootlegging. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Yee wasn’t just a gun control fanatic, he was an anti-corruption crusader as well. (Insta again.)
It took more than a week for MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to finally mention that Yee was indicted for arms trafficking…and she still failed to mention he was a staunch advocate for gun control.
The guns of the Leland Yee scandal. I’d like to fire a Tavor Assault Rifle, but they seem to garner a hefty premium over AR-pattern rifles. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
Last time I checked, CNN still hasn’t covered the Leland Yee gun trafficking story. But thank God they covered his opposition to banning shark fin soup!
And speaking of CNN, maybe it’s not a coincidence that their ratings are near an all-time low.
San Francisco journalist spends a thousand or so words not explaining why San Francisco’s numerous professional journalists didn’t even catch a whiff of the the scandal. Hey, I think my tweet above just may have a clue…
Though he wasn’t in custody during the initial arraignment, sports agent co-conspirator Marlon Sullivan was taken into custody in Princeton, New Jersey.
Tags:California, CNN, Crime, Democrats, Guns, Leland Yee, Marlon Sullivan, Media Watch, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, Tavor Assault Rifle
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Lucky Gunner is offering Shrimp Boy Tactical Statesman Ammunition.
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I don’t currently own a 9mm, so I’ll have to pass. But you have to admire the rapid reaction speed of the American entrepreneur…
Tags:ammo, California, Democrats, Guns, Leland Yee, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow
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Monday, March 31st, 2014
Before the LinkSwarm itself, an observation: On the drive home from Houston to Austin this weekend, I saw a Prius with a “Repeal ObamaCare” sticker. Truly the tide has turned…
So today is the latest drop dead day to sign up for ObamaCare. Guess what website is down?
How AP frames questions: “Do you want your Reps to make ObamaCare work, or to let children die?”
Court case to determine whether Obama can rewrite laws at his whim or not.
“A core competency of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is issuing false assurances.”
ObamaCare wastes wastes $2 trillion over 10 years to fail to insure the uninsured.
How Obama’s pro-illegal alien policies released 68,000 criminals onto the street.
CNN decides that California’s third-ranking Democratic state Senator and gun control advocate being busted on federal arms trafficking charges just isn’t news.
Obama’s foreign policy: Neither Hawkish nor Dovish, but rather manifestly incompetent.
Top Ten Things Putin Said to Obama about Ukraine.
One reason for the liberal contempt on guns: They’re losing and they know it.
And when liberals want to have a “conversation” on gun control, what they really mean is “let us shame you into rolling over and giving up your rights.” Then they wonder why they keep losing. “After Newtown, many gun-control advocates tried to shame rather than persuade, as if the ‘correct’ position was obvious to everyone save retrograde idiots. On guns, that strategy has never worked.”
Malcolm Gladwell’s discussion of the Branch Davidian siege makes the ATF sound even more clueless and incompetent.
There are some majors and colleges that bring negative financial returns.
This just in: Jeffrey Toobin is a lying tool. (Related.)
Scott Walker is crushing Mary Burke in fundraising.
How the Washington Post and Robert Reich lie about the Koch Brothers.
But despite all the liberal talking points, Harry Reid is still less popular than the Koch brothers.
Global Warming alarmists push for greater dialog with skeptics. Ha, just kidding! They want them arrested.
How an editor at Ebony picks fights with black conservatives to help prop up the magazine’s ambulatory corpse.
Erick Erickson reviews Noah. I think the movie the movie may have strayed a little from its Biblical source, especially in the light-saber fight in the strip club after the car chase…
Proof that Kayne West is a vampire.
Tags:Ann Althouse, Anthropogenic Global Warming, Crime, Democrats, Ebony, Erick Erickson, Guns, Jeffrey Toobin, Kathleen Sebelius, Kayne West, Koch Brothers, Leland Yee, Malcolm Gladwell, Mary Burke, Media Watch, ObamaCare, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, Scott Walker, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin, Washington Post
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Thursday, March 27th, 2014
There’s just no end to the Leland Yee/Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow arms trafficking story, so here are some updates and tidbits:
Yee is out on $500,000 bond, his passport has been confiscated, and he’s been told not to leave California. I dunno about you, but $500,000 seems low for someone accused of running a major arms trafficking ring. Good thing Chinese tongs have never been known to smuggle people in or out of a country illegally…
Yee also withdrew from the California Secretary of State race. There goes the “any publicity is good publicity” theory…
Democrats were all for keeping convicted felon Rod Wright around as a state senator, but now that Yee is making all the wrong headlines, suddenly they want to kick Yee out because he was indicted.
Yee was honored last week by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
A quick rundown on all the key players.
And an even quicker look at all the charges.
The indictment on Shrimp Boy’s misdeeds: “Chow’s criminal history includes a guilty plea in federal court for racketeering, involving murder for hire, conspiracy to distribute heroin, arson, and conspiracy to collect extensions of credit.” 1. Shrimp Boy is obviously well-rounded, 2. “conspiracy to collect extensions of credit”? YOU MONSTER! (Actually, I’m guessing this may be loan sharking.)
Also indicted is a Alan Chiu, who is described as a “close associate” of Chow and is “employed by Men’s Warehouse.” Well, now we know where Shrimp Boy gets all of those natty outfits…
Kongphet Chanthavong is described as a Thai citizen with a felony conviction and “an outstanding warrant of deportation; however, country conditions preclude deportation.” What? Which country’s conditions? Ours, because Obama refuses to enforce immigration law, or Thailand? If the later, just get him a one way-ticket to Bangkok and let Thai officials deal with him. Problem solved.
Marlon Darrell Sullivan was indicted on narcotics trafficking, gun trafficking, and the murder-for-hire scheme. I’m guessing it’s this Marlon Sullivan, who represents football players Matt Toeaina, Jonathan Fanene, and Pat Williams, and boxer Karim Mayfield. I was unfamiliar with Mayfield until I ran across his name this morning. Where? On Chow’s Facebook page.
Just how does a sports agent wake up one day and say to himself: “You know, the agent business is good and all, but I really want to break into the lucrative world of contract killing”?
Maybe because he never left the street. “Marlon Sullivan, according to the federal affidavit, told undercover agents he’d have no trouble pulling off a ‘hit’, saying ‘I got a hundred niggas, I still got my ties to the street. I got young boys who love me.’”
Also this: “As I write, Sullivan’s whereabouts are unknown. He did not appear at the hearing where more than 20 of the defendants were arraigned.”
Yee traveled in the circles you would expect a California state senator to travel in:
He evidently has friends on the South Side:
(In case you don’t get the reference, that’s singer Moby. Kids, ask your parents what a “Moby” was…)
Lee has a Twitter account.
Oh my:
Iowahawk goes to town on the story (no doubt in a souped-up dragon tong roadster):
Iowahawk also pointed out this gem of an Los Angeles Times headline: “For Democrats, politicians in handcuffs point to image problems.”
But that’s not the only supergenius headline they offer up on the case. There’s also this sparkling example of the headline-writer’s art: “Leland Yee indictment may mark abrupt end to his political career.” Really? You think? Then again, he is a Democrat. Convictions couldn’t fully derail Marion Barry or Alcee Hastings careers…
All the story needs to take it to the next level is Lo Pan casting fireballs from his fingers…
Tags:Alan Chiu, Border Controls, California, Crime, Democrats, Guns, Iowahawk, Jihad, Kongphet Chanthavong, Leland Yee, Marlon Darrell Sullivan, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, San Francisco, Twitter
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Thursday, March 27th, 2014
This is a riff on a story Dwight put up, namely the arrest of California Democratic state senator (and Secretary of State candidate) Leland Yee on arms trafficking and other charges, and his alleged connection with convicted gangster Raymond “Shrimp Boy” Chow (born Kwok Cheung).
Things worth highlighting:
It was inevitable that a Democrat accused of arms trafficking was a devout gun-grabber who was lauded by the Brady Bunch and pushed for an “assault weapons” ban.
Yee is also accused of pay-for-play legislative favors and trying to do an end-run around campaign finance laws.
Yee wasn’t just against guns, he also ranted against violent video games, despite evidently stealing criminal syndicate ideas from Grant Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Yee is the third Democratic California state senator indicted in the past year, along with State Senator Ron Calderon and State Senator Roderick Wright, who has actually been convicted of eight felony counts of voter fraud, and who Democrats refuse to force to resign.
Funny how one-party Democratic rule leads to corruption, isn’t it?
Chow isn’t just a gangster, he’s a gangster who has his profile in the encyclopedia of gangsters. In other news, there’s an encyclopedia of gangsters (though it seems to be pretty focused on Californian and Asian gangs).
Chow has a really extensive rap sheet:
In 1978 Shrimp Boy was founded [sic] guilty in 1978 for strong-arm robbery and sentenced to 11 years of which he did 7 years and 4 months…Raymond Chow started running a protution[sic] ring, when he was approached by the leader of the Wah Ching gang “Danny Wong” who ask him to be a part of the Wah organization, but Chow refused.
On May 31, 1986 Raymond was at a popular night club in Chinatown when a Wah Ching Gang member started an altercation and Chow was accused of 28 counts of assault with a lethal firearm, and attempted murder, Raymond did 3 years behind bars and was released in 1989.
(Extensive details of shifting Asian gang allegiances omitted.)
Until 1992, when Chow was apprehended for racketeering which was then divided into 2 different trials. The initial trial for firearm trafficking and the 2nd for prostitution, drug, money laundering, unlawful gambling functions, arson, hire for murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Raymond was pronounced guilty in 1995, Chow was penalized and sentenced to 24 years on 6 counts of firearm-trafficking.
Seeing some reports that Chow’s previous indictments included ones for male prostitution, which is pretty unusual (even for San Francisco), but I’m not sure how well sourced those reports are.
Chow has a Facebook page:
It takes a special kind of gangster to carry off that look.
Ha:
And here he is with former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom:
According to the official indictment, Chow is still a Chinese citizen. Why was he not deported after serving his first felony sentence? The moment he got out of prison the first time he should have been on a plane back to Hong Kong.
Iowahawk’s Twitter feed linked the indictment papers with this observation:
Tam says the indictment “reads like a Tarantino production of an Elmore Leonard novel.” Or something out of Paul Malmont’s The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril, which I happen to be reading right now. I suspect the books collection of (real) 1930s pulp writers would be amazed to learn that Chinese criminal tongs were still alive and well in 2014…
The indictment (which I’m still reading) also mentions the indictment of Keith Jackson, the former former president of the San Francisco Board of Education, on a murder for hire charge.
Here’s a more detailed piece on Chong and Chinatown gang boss Peter Chong. Chong’s house was struck by arson the same night he hosted a concert by sex-bomb Hong Kong actress Amy Yip, who made her bones in movies like Chinese Erotic Ghost Story and Sex and Zen, and who was known far and wide for her tremendous, uh, talents.
Here you can see more of her fabulous talents:
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Of course, if Yee was trafficking arms to foreigners, it brings up one important question: Why wasn’t he already working for Obama’s Department of Justice?
Edited to add: Dwight has done another update, and Yee was evidently willing to sell shoulder-fired rockets to Islamic rebels for $2 million. Wow, this story really does have everything!
Tags:Amy Yip, Border Controls, California, Crime, Democrats, Guns, Leland Yee, Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow
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