Cindy Yang helped Chinese tech stars get $50K photos with Trump. Who paid?
Source: Miami Herald
More than a year before her Super Bowl selfie with the president, Li “Cindy” Yang brought two Chinese-born tech executives — an Australia-based cryptocurrency guru known in the industry as “the Martian” and a startup CEO whose firm recently became a jersey sponsor for the Dallas Mavericks — to take formal photos with President Donald Trump.
Both men flashed a thumbs-up for the camera. So did Trump.
It was a big moment — and it came with a big price tag: $50,000 per photo, benefiting the president’s re-election campaign.
But neither Ryan Xu nor Lucas Lu appear to have paid for the privilege. A search of a federal database showed no record of either man giving to Trump Victory, the political action committee that sold tickets — as well as perks like photos with the president — for the Dec. 2, 2017, breakfast fundraiser hosted by the Republican National Committee in New York City.
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