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...however, Big Sister Ping is a big-time crook and people smuggler. She may have puttered around the Yung Sun restaurant and the Tak Shun variety store, but federal investigators say she also ran a global crime network that netted her more than $40 million, made her a major competitor of China's central bank, helped her corrupt foreign government officials and changed the face of New York City. For years, law enforcement called her the Mother of All Snakeheads, a leader of the species of international gangsters who specialize in the brutal trade in humans from China. And next...
...cash, according to government sources, for a building directly across the street from a branch of the Bank of China, Beijing's central bank. She set up her restaurant in the building, and it quickly became a hub of the illegal Fujian Chinese community. It also became a major competitor of the bank. According to police and a number of Ping's clients, she used her connections in China to begin transferring money from those she smuggled back to their families in China. She proved more efficient than the bank across the street. Says a female immigrant who patronized Ping...
...fallen school records, the 100-meter run and the 4x100-meter relay, had belonged in part to another Trial competitor, Meredith Rainey-Valmon '90. An Atlanta Olympian in 1996, Rainey-Valmon will be attempting to make the team in the 800-meter run this weekend. She still holds the school records...
...fledged democracy, according to Washington, and yet since the election of President Vladimir Putin - whose popularity with voters was derived in no small part from sticking out his jaw in the face of Western criticism over his conduct in Chechnya - it has positioned itself ever more assertively as a competitor to Washington on the global stage. Putin is working aggressively (and not without success) to win Western European support for his opposition to Washington's national missile defense, and is making a concerted effort to restore Moscow's influence in some of the capitals that most perplex U.S. policy makers...
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