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Ex-Owner of Spa in Sex Trafficking Ring Sold Chinese Execs “Access” to Trump

HeadlineMar 11, 2019

Mother Jones reported Saturday that Florida businesswoman Cindy Yang, who founded the spa where billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is said to have solicited sex, also ran a business selling access to President Trump. Kraft was charged last month with hundreds of others as part of a human trafficking sting that police say involved women recruited from China who were forced to have sex with customers, sometimes up to 16 times a day. The self-described “international business consulting firm” run by Yang is aimed at Chinese executives, touting access to Trump, members of his administration and his family at his Mar-a-Lago resort. The story was published a day after a selfie of Yang and Trump emerged at a Super Bowl viewing party at Mar-a-Lago in February. According to the Miami Herald, Yang and her family have donated nearly $60,000 to Trump’s campaign and a Trump PAC since 2017. Yang was not charged in last month’s crackdown on Florida day spas and has said she sold the spa linked to Kraft in 2013.

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