THREAD (Big Trouble in Little China)

1/ Those with their ear to the ground, some funky happenings have been going down. A bunch of Chinese nationals got sprung money laundering, importing drugs, trying to get fake US passports, & laundering via casinos https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-unseals-superseding-indictment-charging-nationwide-money-laundering-network

2/ But that ain't the crazy part. Tao Liu, one of the Chinese nationals indicted, was showing up to Trump rallies sporting a VIP pass. Now, a Chinese money laundering drug trafficker might seem a strange place for Mr Beijing to be hangin out. But that aint the crazy part.....,

3/ The strange part was revealed last night. It appears our Chinese money laundering drug trafficker was hanging out with Joe Cinque, colloquially known as a "Trump associate". This is where we get closer to the crazy part.....,

4/ For those that don't know Joe Cinque, he is a small time mobster who was linked to the Gambino crime family and was described as a good friend of John Gotti. So having Joe Cinque hanging with now indicted Chinese money laundering drug traffickers in New York is, well weird

5/ Now the fact that the Donald was hanging out with Joe Cinque as a good friend for years, even after he became Prez, is strange as fuqq. There's like one degree of separation between Trump, Cinque and an indicted money laundering, drug trafficking Chinese organized crime gang

6/ But the crazy part, the really crazy part, is how Tao Liu and the other Chinese nationals were caught by the DoJ. The posse included ; Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, Australian Federal Police, Australian Dept of Home Affairs, NZ Police & Mexican Federal Police

7/ The fact so many Australian agencies were involved when there was no apparent crime being committed in Australia, raises some very intriguing possibilities. Note on this graph the Minister for Dept of Home Affairs, and what agencies he oversees. Multiple IC agencies

8/ Now in the last 48 hrs, two separate stories also broke. First, the ex Mexican Defense Minister is busted for, wait for it, drug trafficking and money laundering. What did that DoJ indictment say about Tao Liu, Chinese organized crime & Mexican cartels again?

9/ The 2nd story which broke today, Oz time, was a seizure of half a tonne of cocaine into Sydney. Australian Federal Police tweeted about it, but so did the US Embassy in Canberra, coz US Homeland Security & ICE assisted in the bust. But the coke came from South America

10/ It is notable that Chinese Intelligence Services use organized crime syndicates and individuals to conduct operations. The stories below are just two such Australian examples conducted by China in Australia

11/ The picture that seems to be emerging is that some of these joint operations by Australia & the US aren't just Law Enforcement actions, but National Security/Intelligence actions. Maybe we should pay attention when Xi Jinping & friends honor lifelong organized crime figures