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A Chinese businesswoman defending herself on charges that she trespassed at President Trump s Mar-a-Lago club and lied to Secret Service agents gave one of the shortest opening statements in legal history Monday, proclaiming her innocence and appreciation for the country that may put her prison.After a federal prosecutor gave a 20-minute opening statement laying out Yujing Zhang s alleged lies that gained her access to the president s Palm Beach resort on March 30 and her suspicious activities during her brief presence on the grounds, Zhang stood at the defense table for 20 seconds and addressed the 10 women and two men. I don t believe I did anything wrong and that s what I want to say. USA, thank you, Zhang said in another unusual turn in an unusual case. She faces up to six years in prison if convicted. Prosecutor Michael Sherwin, on the other hand, said evidence and testimony will show that Zhang s story to club employees and agents contained one lie after another as it evolved. First, the 33-year-old Shanghai consultant told a Secret Service agent outside the resort that she was there to visit the pool and didn t an stanley water bottle swer when an employee asked if she was the daughter of a member, he said.The confusion over who she might be got her past two lines of sec stanley cup urity and into a reception area, where she surreptitiously stanley cup took photos and video and told an employee first that she was there for a United Nations friendship meeting that didn t exist Nfuy What Earmark Ban GOP Leader Reaps $200M
Former DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel was aware that Rep. Tim Mahoney may have had an extramarital affair in early 2007 -- but didn t know it involved a staf stanley vaso fer or a cash settlement, according to a statement released by Emanuel s office.In an ABC story on Mahoney s $121,000 payout to a female staffer with whom he allegedly had an affair, unnamed Mahoney staffers claimed the hard-driving Emanuel has been workin stanley website g with Mahoney to keep the matter from hurting his re-election campaign. Emanuel s office is pushing back, saying the two have never talked about the tryst in the context of Mahoney s 2008 race. An Emanuel spokesperson described his 2007 chat with Mahoney this way: Upon hearing a rumor, Congressman Emanuel confronted Congressman Mahoney, told him he was in public life and had a responsibility to act accordingly and appropriately, and urged him to do so. They had no further conversations on this topic. ponent-- stanley hrnek type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a02e6a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8a02e6a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a02e6a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;
A Chinese businesswoman defending herself on charges that she trespassed at President Trump s Mar-a-Lago club and lied to Secret Service agents gave one of the shortest opening statements in legal history Monday, proclaiming her innocence and appreciation for the country that may put her prison.After a federal prosecutor gave a 20-minute opening statement laying out Yujing Zhang s alleged lies that gained her access to the president s Palm Beach resort on March 30 and her suspicious activities during her brief presence on the grounds, Zhang stood at the defense table for 20 seconds and addressed the 10 women and two men. I don t believe I did anything wrong and that s what I want to say. USA, thank you, Zhang said in another unusual turn in an unusual case. She faces up to six years in prison if convicted. Prosecutor Michael Sherwin, on the other hand, said evidence and testimony will show that Zhang s story to club employees and agents contained one lie after another as it evolved. First, the 33-year-old Shanghai consultant told a Secret Service agent outside the resort that she was there to visit the pool and didn t an stanley water bottle swer when an employee asked if she was the daughter of a member, he said.The confusion over who she might be got her past two lines of sec stanley cup urity and into a reception area, where she surreptitiously stanley cup took photos and video and told an employee first that she was there for a United Nations friendship meeting that didn t exist Nfuy What Earmark Ban GOP Leader Reaps $200M
Former DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel was aware that Rep. Tim Mahoney may have had an extramarital affair in early 2007 -- but didn t know it involved a staf stanley vaso fer or a cash settlement, according to a statement released by Emanuel s office.In an ABC story on Mahoney s $121,000 payout to a female staffer with whom he allegedly had an affair, unnamed Mahoney staffers claimed the hard-driving Emanuel has been workin stanley website g with Mahoney to keep the matter from hurting his re-election campaign. Emanuel s office is pushing back, saying the two have never talked about the tryst in the context of Mahoney s 2008 race. An Emanuel spokesperson described his 2007 chat with Mahoney this way: Upon hearing a rumor, Congressman Emanuel confronted Congressman Mahoney, told him he was in public life and had a responsibility to act accordingly and appropriately, and urged him to do so. They had no further conversations on this topic. ponent-- stanley hrnek type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a02e6a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8a02e6a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c8a02e6a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block;