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| Chinese woman carrying malware allegedly got into Mar-a-Lago |
| 2019-04-03 |
| [APNEWS] A woman carrying two Chinese passports and a device containing computer malware lied to Secret Service agents and briefly gained admission to President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s Mar-a-Lago club over the weekend during his Florida visit, federal prosecutors allege in court documents. Yujing Zhang, 32, approached a Secret Service agent at a checkpoint outside the Palm Beach club early Saturday afternoon and said she was a member who wanted to use the pool, court documents said. She showed the passports as identification. Agents say she wasn’t on the membership list, but a club manager thought Zhang was the daughter of a member. Agents say that when they asked Zhang if the member was her father, she did not answer definitively but they thought it might be a language barrier and admitted her. Zhang’s story changed when she got inside, agents say, telling a front desk receptionist she was there to attend the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... Chinese American Association event scheduled for that evening. No such event was scheduled and agents were summoned. Agent Samuel Ivanovich wrote in court documents that Zhang told him that she was there for the Chinese American event and had come early to familiarize herself with the club and take photos, again contradicting what she had said at the checkpoint. She showed him an invitation in Chinese that he could not read. He said Zhang was taken off the grounds and told she could not be there. Ivanovich said she became argumentative, so she was taken to the local Secret Service office for questioning. There, he said, it became clear Zhang speaks and reads English well. He said Zhang said she had traveled from Shanghai to attend the nonexistent Mar-a-Lago event on the invitation of an acquaintance named "Charles," whom she only knew through a Chinese social media app. Ivanovich said she then denied telling the checkpoint agents she was a member wanting to swim. Ivanovich said Zhang carried four cellphones, a laptop computer, an external hard drive and a thumb drive containing computer malware. She did not have a swimsuit. Zhang is charged with making false statements to federal agents and illegally entering a restricted area. She remains in jug pending a hearing next week. Her public defender, Robert Adler, declined comment. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 Multicultism gone wild, or deep state shenanigans? One hopes President Trump has a final layer of his own private security, just in case. According to things we’ve seen here at Rantburg, the Obama years were not good for the Secret Service. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2019-04-03 22:36 |
| #7 Simple false positive, and a bunch of 'nice guys' at the gate. Pan, where's Delta? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-04-03 22:34 |
| #6 Agents say that when they asked Zhang if the member was her father, she did not answer definitively but they thought it might be a language barrier and admitted her. So they erred on the side of letting a foreigner in. Multicultism gone wild, or deep state shenanigans? |
| Posted by: charger 2019-04-03 19:22 |
| #5 Hillary's illicit email server did not have Secret Service protection. I'm certain the Paki's defended it. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-04-03 17:56 |
| #4 The malware is important, not the person. The big danger is a social engineering attack that arranges for malware to be inadvertently installed on a system within an it security perimeter. This can be as simple as persuading some person with security credentials to connect a USB drive stick to a sensitive system for a few seconds. BTW Hillary's illicit email server did not have Secret Service protection. 'Zhang' and others could easily have gotten physical access. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2019-04-03 17:12 |
| #3 That's a tough entry, I've been on the Palm Beach island during his residency. First filter is the City Police for ID and traffic control on the access road. Second filter is the Sheriff's Dept for a vehicle search before the entry gate. Third filter at the entry gate is the SS for a bomb and weapons check. Each filter has a comm station coordinating the pass-thrus. I can only assume she passed the first two perimeters as a local resident sometime prior to the third. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-04-03 14:27 |
| #2 Special delivery from Huawei? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2019-04-03 07:31 |
| #1 Lone wolf? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2019-04-03 01:54 |