FLUSHING,
QUEENS, March 20 -- After
the indictment of the Chinese spies
in EDNY, on the Eastern Front, Kurt
Wheelock
texted Michael Randall Long and
asked him to put the MH17 and 1MDB and
other Eastern front cases on hold, at
least for this Saturday. They were
going out to Flushing to look into the
murder of Jim Li, which happened two
days before the five indictments that
DOJ and their press said were
unrelated.
The 7 train may be the most
frequent line in the MTA system,
servicing not only Flushing but also
Jackson Heights and Corona and
Citifield when the Mets are in-season
and not locked out.
Today
Queens looked great stretched out
below, first the wide avenues then the
narrow corridor like the J and M over
Broadway in Brooklyn, like something
out of The Honeymooners.
"I don't know where you're
going with this one," Matthew Randall
Long told Kurt as they stood next to
each other looking south over the
expanse of buildings to the
outcropping of older high rises in
downtown Brooklyn including the
courthouse there. "But I'm along for
the ride."
Kurt looked down at his note
pads, the few names he'd jotted in
order to put together a fast song
before heading east to Flushing:
A man was
stabbed in Flushing Queens
Two day later an arrest and no one says what
it means
They tell the Press it's just a coincidence
But denying the link to the murder makes no
sense
This is the
story of Shujang Wang
He spied on Uighurs and to his handlers he
sang
He was run out of China's Mission to the
United Nations
One of the World War Two's most failed
creations
Jim Li
before being stabbed tweeted United We Win
Now on the lam is China spy Qiming Lin
He tried to make dirt about a man running for
the House
The UN, asked about its role, is quiet as
mouse
For Jason
Sun, Frank Lui sent a Florida prison guard
To hit the Xi Jinping COVID satire work very
hard
Inner City Press raised the UN in a presser by
Peace of EDNY
They heard the guard's mother called for bond
in Ohio cry
The cases are
connected and we're gonna keep transcribing
While in the UN of Guterres the Chinese GONGOs
keep on bribing
Guterres at the Genocide Games gave rise to a
first book
Now the two on the lam we'll be taking a second
look
When he was finished, Michael
Randall Long asked, "But how do you know
they're connected?"
"What
are the odds?" Kurt answered. "That the
lady who stabbed him drapped the
red-starred flag over his hair, and that
of his group, the guy who was the
secretary was indicted two days later,
as having spied on Chinese dissident
groups?"
"You
really
think China would commit or commission a
murder right here in New York City?"
Long asked, rhetorically perhaps.
"Didn't Putin do it in London?"
Kurt said.
"China's playing a longer game
than Putin," Long said.
"But their time for taking Taiwan
is getting short," Kurt replied.
"They'll want to do it while Congress is
obsessed with Zelankyy and gas prices
and the mid-terms, even at fast as the
confirmation hearings of Ketanji Brown
Jackson."
"I had a case before her," Long
said. But Kurt ignored him and
continued, obsessed as always by the UN.
"They'll
want
to do it while their friend or pawn
Antonio Guterres is still Secretary
General, to provide them cover. Like
with Ukarine he'll use his platform,
built on the blood of those who died in
World War II, to give false assurances
that of course it will never happen.
Then when it does, he'll tell his
officials to say it is not happened,
that it is not an invasion."
Long nodded. They were passing
the emptiness of Citifield and the
tennis center, and coming up on
Flushing. There was a dumping place that
the two of them liked to go, facing a
park and the LIRR tracks. That or the
smoking cart of Xinjiang shish kebobs.
Either way the trip out here would not
be a complete wash.
* * *
The Xinjiang lamb kebobs had a
kick to them and Kurt cooled his
tongue down with a lichee bubble tea a
side street one block off Roosevelt
Avenue. Then he and Michael Randall
Long headed to Jim Li's office, or
what had been Jim Li's office, on
39th.
"I read up what on they say
happened," Long said as they walked
the crowded street. "Twenty five year
old woman named Xiaoning Zhang goes
into Jim Li's office with two knives,
putting a Chinese flag over a chair
and stabs him repeatedly. The story is
quickly that she was mad he wouldn't
represent her on her visa case, trying
to go to a school out in California."
Kurt was covering a Chinese
government visa fraud trial in SDNY,
US v. Zhongsan Liu. There were
allegations of sexual trysts, based on
pole camera footage, but no murder or
even violence.
"Doesn't make sense to me,"
Kurt said. "Did you see how many law
offices there are out here? More than
on Court Street in downtown Brooklyn.
If the lady was so pro-Chinese, per
the flag she put down, why would she
be so insistent on having as her
lawyer Jim Li, so anti CCP his website
brags he accepted an award on behalf
of the Wuhan whistler?"
"I
think he meant whistleblower," Long
cut in. "Must have used Google
translate."
"But
the Queens D.A. bought in, called it a
senseless act of violence, violence is
never the way to resolve a dispute,
blah blah blah. What if the dispute
here is between the Chinese government
and its oversea critics? Or between
China and the US? Or China and Taiwan,
like Russia on Ukraine?"
Up in Jim Li's office there was
a sign, that the remaining attorney in
the firm, not Chinese, would be
picking up Jim Li's cases and to be
patient. Kurt took a photo of the sign
with his cell phone.
"What
if China picked up on that Shujun Wang
was being investigated, and that Jim
Li who was on the board of Memorial
Foundation with him was providing
evidence? What if they heard that,
even if it weren't true, and sent the
25 year old lady to kill him and take
the blame?"
"We
have to track the down, and who's
representing her," Long said. "For now
it's a case in state criminal court
here in Queens." More on
#TheEasternFront
* * *
Kurt before he was thrown out
of the UN had known a Frank Liu in the
UN, a shadow7 character who threw
money around at UN officials like
Ibrahim Gambari, the Nigerian
Ambassador then head of the UN Office
of Political Affairs. The guy was so
ham handed in his corruption that he
would rent himself out to give a UN
veneer to events by corrupt Chinese
groups.
Once Kurt had outed an event
that was going to be held in the UN
Delegates Dining Room. They'd moved it
across the street to what was then the
Millennium Hotel. When Kurt burst into
the conference room, Gambari had seem
him and ducked out a back door before
Kurt could take a phone. For a while
after that Kurt never entered such a
room without his phone on the ready to
take a photo. But that shadown event
was forgotten. Until now, with a Frank
Lui of
a "purported media group" indicted.
Frank
Liu is of course a common name in
China. But his Congress Web TV was
linked with the World Harmony
Foundation, which Kurt Wheelock had
exposed while still in the UN, paying
$100,000 to be given insider access to
UN Peacekeeping - with a history of
exploiting not only women and girls in
the DR Congo but also its minerals -
and another event with Cameroon,
another partner of the corrupt
Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
The
UN's video links to those event had
gone dead, seemingly by design. And
Kurt in being evicted from the UN had
had his laptop broken. But he still
had his notes, and his memories. It
was the same Frank Liu. So the UN was
in the corruption. Could it be in on
the murder(s)? #TheEasternFront
Kurt had first heard
of Jho Low while still in
the UN, before he was thrown
out. Jho Low appeared at a
UN press conference in front
of the ubiquitous and now
defiled logo.
#TheWeaselOfWallStreet, 1st
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Inner City Press is also covering
US v. Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, the
self-rapped Crocodile of Wall Street, a
story here,
song here
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