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Feb. 1, 2024 - Louder with Crowder
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Inside The China Plot to Destroy America From Within: Triads, Drugs & Murder | Documentary
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Criminal activity has become part of China's strategy to grow its power in conjunction with its authoritarian statecraft.
I think he helps you.
A woman named Ying-Chan Wang and a man named Stephen Ho.
They don't f**k around and if I'm gonna take your kids, no one's gonna see you again.
We knew going out that he said that he didn't want to come back to Oklahoma.
You'll be dead if you come back to Oklahoma.
What you just saw is a small preview of the result of countless hours of in-depth reporting,
open source research, and undercover work that was directly informed by your exclusive
tips.
What we've discovered here was a series of clandestine foreign actors collaborating on United States soil in the realms of drugs, human trafficking, murder, espionage, and it's not the plot of a Mission Impossible movie.
Fortunately, everyone's least favorite Scientologist is nowhere to be found.
What you're about to see is a true story of how international organized crime connected to one of the most powerful governments in the world, that's foreshadowing, has taken over middle america and how it threatens to do
the same across the entire united states
so in 2018 oklahoma legalized the medical use of marijuana
after a statewide referendum passed with 57 of the vote
Now, pause.
Let me be clear here.
This piece has nothing to do with whether you're against cannabis legalization, whether you're for it, whether you partake or are Mennonite.
This is about the unintended or fully intended fallout as it relates to American landowners, taxpayers, and the Communist Chinese government.
A few quick numbers for you.
Since July 2021, the state has collected over $155 million in marijuana-related tax revenue.
Now, we've all heard for decades, and I once believed this too, that legalizing or decriminalizing drugs would eliminate the black market.
In Oklahoma, the exact opposite has happened.
There has been an unprecedented number of illegal operations, grow farms, growing at rates breaking records, completely unseen before.
The real problem is the owners and the players milking this cash cow for all it's worth at your expense.
Basically, think less, Jeff Spicoli.
You dick!
And more communist tyrant El Chapo.
Now, the implications go far beyond state or even national borders.
And they constitute a full-blown threat to America's national security.
To put it simply, this may surprise a lot of people.
Oklahoma is the weed capital of the United States.
No, not Colorado, not California, not even New York.
Oklahoma, which has forced them to change their state motto to more than just tornadoes and chaps.
Here are a few more numbers to show you just how much of a weed haven Oklahoma actually is.
2,683 dispensaries in Oklahoma.
This is the most in the nation and more than double the number located in the number two state, California.
Twice the dispensaries of California.
844 million grams of cannabis packaged in Oklahoma in 2023.
That's 64 times the amount that consumers 4,617.
That's the number of active growers just in 2024.
And that's only exceeded by California with 5,491.
That's the number of active growers just in 2024.
And that's only exceeded by California with 5,491.
At its peak, Oklahoma had nearly 14,000 licenses.
The point is, a lot of cash, a lot of THC.
One grower who asked to remain anonymous due to his ongoing involvement
in the state's cannabis industry laid out exclusively to Mug Club Undercover here
why he was attracted to Oklahoma, even without the chaps.
Real estate's real cheap, the license, the barrier to entry was $2,500, which I mean,
looking back on it now, any person that sells any kind of drugs can come up with that to get a legal license.
Uh, which we're seeing a lot of, but uh, it was, barrier to entry was cheap, you know, land I think like 6 grand for 2
and a half acres.
acres. Wow. Yeah, it's nothing, you know, I mean, it's very, very cheap out here.
This is going to be our American dream.
You know, this is me getting away from having to do physical labor.
This is us having a family business with my dad.
And it just didn't turn out that way.
But yeah, what brought us back is it was just so cheap and so affordable for a blue
collared person to be able to do it.
So it's a new gold rush, as it were, filled with absolutely baked prospectors.
But make no mistake, those seeking to take advantage of the conditions on the ground include a lot of less than scrupulous actors.
And there's one specific group that has taken particular advantage of Oklahoma's relaxed, chill industry standards.
China.
As it turns out, the only thing that these Chinese nationals like more than the marijuana industry in the United States is Hollywood movie posters.
This is for the movie poster.
They actually, they removed Chewbacca.
This character seems to be in the forefront, like he is the centerpiece.
But here, they depict him turned around.
He's not even looking towards the audience.
So right here.
And if you didn't know about this, there's actually a story out there about this character and the race and gender swap.
As a thought experiment, watch Star Wars again and tell me the Empire is not literally exactly the same as the Chinese government.
And to the surprise of absolutely no one in the history of Earth ever, frequently, These Chinese nationals are involved in, wait for it, highly illegal activity focused primarily on the black market.
The Chinese involvement in the marijuana industry is so extensive.
that officials note, it's actually more surprising if you encounter an illegal operation
without connections to China. Of the 800 farms shut down from 2021 to 2023, 75 percent were linked
directly to China. Here's Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics spokesperson Mark Woodward talking
with us exclusively, outlining the specific practices that Chinese crime organizations,
you've heard of the triads, how they infiltrate the industry. You would look over a fence and
it's not two or three local guys growing marijuana like we've seen for the first couple of years.
It would be 50 what would appear to be Asian Chinese workers, which is not a problem as long as they're not, you know, violating any laws.
Sure.
When we would start getting calls from law enforcement out of state saying that we just intercepted a truckload of marijuana, the driver says it came off of so-and-so farm in Oklahoma, and we would start investigating that farm.
Sure enough, it was one of these Chinese-operated farms where all the workers were Chinese, but yet the owner is listed as a certain person, and it turns out that person is a secretary in a law office.
So you're kind of going, okay, what's going on here?
And so we started looking into what's behind the ownership?
Who are these people?
And what we started to realize, and one of the things that was written into Oklahoma's law that's fairly unique, it said 75% of your ownership Before we get to the real crimes, this one's just kind of annoying.
It's a dick move.
Well obviously that's a problem for a criminal organization linked to Chinese organized crime
that's been growing in the Northern California desert, you know, for the last eight years
supplying black market marijuana to Flushing, New York.
Before we get to the real crimes, this one's just kind of annoying. It's a dick move.
They often steal massive amounts of water, electricity, leading to shortages for the local community.
It's a crappy thing to do, but it's not as bad as the cold-blooded killing.
Bye.
Yeah, that's exemplified by the quadruple murder of four Chinese workers on a marijuana farm in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma in November 2022.
A search is ongoing for a quadruple murder suspect in Kingfisher County.
Four bodies were found last night at a 10-acre marijuana grow farm as another person is hospitalized with injuries.
Law enforcement's deployed massive resources in that search for the alleged attacker.
The suspect, who was eventually apprehended in Florida, was a 45-year-old male named Chen Wu with the most predictable mugshot ever.
He showed up on the farm demanding he immediately be paid $300,000 as repayment for his investment in the operation.
I've got to be very careful because it's still under investigation.
It's not the investigating agency.
But from what we can gather, this Chinese individual male showed up at the farm, was demanding money that he felt he and or others maybe in an investment group were owed and had orders that if they don't pay, they're going to be killed because these are just workers.
They can replace those workers.
And when they said, we don't have the money, he started shooting them one at a time.
Ended up killing four of them, a fifth person escaped and managed to notify authorities.
Most of the time, though, they will not leave a witness.
Like a communist Chinese Warren Buffett.
Now he's been charged with four counts of first degree murder and one count assault and battery with a deadly weapon, which when you think about it, that's the four counts of murder.
Really should tie that up with a bow, but we'll toss in assault and battery while we're at it.
Now in a twist turn of fate, the survivor from Wu's murder spree actually ended up
at the same Oklahoma jail where Wu was being held.
And we were actually able to talk with Ken Thompson, a lieutenant at the Kingfisher County Sheriff's Office,
to hear a little bit more about this specific case.
Myself and another deputy actually went down to Florida, to Miami-Dade and picked up the shooter
and brought him back from Miami-Dade.
Oh yeah, I heard that he was- And brought him back up.
I heard he was very hesitant to come back to Oklahoma because he thought he was going to get killed.
Yeah, he was a weird deal.
Of course, we knew going out that he said that he didn't want to come back to Oklahoma.
He'd be dead if he come back to Oklahoma.
And it was really weird because we got, I mean, he was cordial the whole time.
He didn't speak a lot of English, but, but, but, you know, we got him out, we got him out for the bathroom and we fed him on the way back and stuff like that.
And he just sat back there quietly.
Well, our last gas stop was Weber Falls once we crossed into Oklahoma.
And you couldn't pry him out of the vehicle.
Wow.
It's like he knew that he was in Oklahoma and there was no way he was getting out of the car.
I says, you'll be alright.
We're here.
And he's like, no, no.
I'm like, okay.
So he left him in the car.
Were you ever contacted or were you ever in contact with anybody in China to your knowledge?
Like government officials, embassy, things like that?
Somebody, there were a couple of guys that stopped at dispatch one day that I think that said that they at the
911 center that said that they were connected to the Chinese embassy and they were referred to the OSPI.
And the murders don't stop in Kingfisher County or as it's known by some, namely when a good county to murder.
I'll see you next time.
According to Mr. Woodward of the OBN, they've actually become quite common all over the state.
We've seen others on not quite that scale, but certainly homicides have been something that we've seen a lot of linked to marijuana since 2020 when we really saw the black market migrate to our state.
Now when we asked the same local grower, we showed you earlier why local authorities were so powerless to stop That's the funniest thing we've heard yet.
by Chinese nationals, like murder.
He claimed it was because the cops were on the take.
I've spoken with a couple of law enforcement officials from Oklahoma and they act like they have a handle on it.
They're like, well, we're shutting down a bunch of these.
We've put you here.
My wife's laughing at you in the background.
She heard you say that.
I didn't say, hey, this isn't from me.
This is from law enforcement.
I'm not.
That's the funniest thing we've heard yet.
The police, especially in rural Oklahoma, are all on the take.
Now, to be clear, we don't have any proof to back that claim up.
And according to the official statistics from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics,
they've cut the number of growth farms in the state from 9,421 to 3,223.
So do with that what you will.
And the Kingfisher County Sheriff's Department was really pretty helpful with us and our investigation, so thanks to them.
However, it does seem that nearly every week There's a report of a new grow operation being raided, so clearly there's a problem going on.
Our team here, supported by viewers like you, by the way, thank you, actually visited the site of one of these illegal grow operations that was shut down in Carter County, Oklahoma in December 2023.
All right, we are out here just north of Hilton, Oklahoma.
That's about halfway between the border and Oklahoma City at the site of a shutdown illicit marijuana farm that was taken down by Last month and on the property they found over 11,000 plants which is about 300 pounds of marijuana.
Now this is 46-year-old Jimmy Dang that was arrested in connection with this.
Oftentimes what happens, what he's pending charges for, is something called straw ownership where the Now, there's a lot of problems here, and I don't say this lightly.
These people are responsible for things like sex trafficking, human trafficking, illegal narcotic sale across state borders, whatever.
They're finding fentanyl, they're finding ketamine, murder in Kingfisher County, right?
Maybe the worst thing, not the worst thing, but something that's really going to get at you is this man just left a million dogs out here abandoned, right?
Like this little guy, completely abandoned.
And I mean, it's not a human, but still who's going to take care of him?
Clearly there was no responsibility there.
And mama's over here.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
And I mean, it is a dog, but this shows you how little these people care because Here's mama's puppy right here, completely dead because some idiot decided he wanted to run drugs.
By the way, all the references are available in the description or at lodderworthcreditor.com, and I encourage you to check them out.
So now that you know Middle America is being taken over by murderous international crime organizations of largely people small in stature, where are they all coming from?
How are they getting here?
So to set the stage here, in December 2023, the southern border of the United States saw
an all-time record of 302,000 known crossings.
And while a bulk of those are from places like Central America, you've got Venezuela, a not-so-insignificant number are coming from, let's say, China.
China.
In 2023, at least 25,000 people illegally cross from China, and that's more than the previous 10 years combined.
A long line of Chinese migrants make their way to the U.S.
through its border with Mexico.
They've arrived after a treacherous journey through a route in Panama that has become increasingly popular.
I'm very happy to be in the U.S.
This is my dream country.
And this is why an open borders policy is not compassionate.
It is the opposite of compassionate.
These people are not dreamers, just trying to get here, seeking a better life, to get a glimpse of the Statue of Liberty.
A lot of these Chinese migrants, they arrive here in the United States with extensive debt, either owed to smugglers that helped them reach the United States, or to parties back in China with connections, very often, directly to the Communist Chinese government.
And it makes them a perfect target for the organized crime leaders We have absolutely intercepted individuals that have come straight to Oklahoma from China across the border that have been smuggled in here.
And that's why so much of them are willing to work in horrible conditions because, and that's where they get into the labor traffic, because many of them are now paying off this debt, quote unquote.
They're constantly reminded, remember, we smuggled you into this country, we put up a You know, we put a lot on the line for you.
So now you got to work off this debt.
Well, guess what?
That debt never ends.
And that's for females and males.
So that's how a lot of these females get involved in prostitution.
And a lot of these males end up working on marijuana farms for deplorable conditions and are scared to death to say anything.
Slaves.
Let's be clear about that.
a job in the hopes of being able to send money back home to their families.
So yes, absolutely.
They're pouring across the border with the specific task of hooking up to a marijuana
farm and working, quote unquote, this dead off for these people that help smuggle them
in here.
But they just simply smuggled slave labor so they can maximize their profits working
on these farms.
Slaves.
Let's be clear about that.
Slaves.
There are more slaves right now on earth than ever in recorded history.
Did you know that?
Than ever.
Because of situations like this.
Slaves.
Say it.
Do something about it.
People who want to teach that America is uniquely responsible for the evil of slavery historically as though it doesn't exist across the globe, and it's still happening today, in the United States, in these situations, It's because of the fact that people who are paid to represent us don't enforce their own laws.
Now, we also spoke with the Oklahoma junior senator, Mark Wayne Mullen, or at least his office, and they confirmed that there is a significant concern regarding the influx of Chinese migrants at the border.
This is China taking advantage.
Knowing that they can be facilitating both drugs and personnel across the southern border.
And Oklahoma doesn't get talked about a whole lot, necessarily, in the border conversation.
But they should.
Because Texas, of course, is always under the gun.
Now, of course, these Chinese migrants slash often slaves or indentured servants If your white guilt gets the better of you, they don't always come directly through the border.
Oftentimes, they're actively recruited from other cities, like Los Angeles or New York.
And after a little digging, we were actually able to locate some of these job postings.
Here are a couple of examples of the recruitment ads luring Chinese workers to Oklahoma.
Farm recruitment requires diligence, quickness, and no fuss.
Experienced people will be given priority.
Oklahoma regular farm urgent recruitment.
Pause.
If someone specifies regular farm, it's not a regular farm.
Able to endure hardships and stand hard work.
Quick at work, without fuss.
Responsible.
Good hygiene.
Novice or experienced male workers are welcome.
Now, in both of these ads, first off, they really have a thing about fussing.
So if you want to be a Chinese slave working at a grow farm, fussing, it can't be in your wheelhouse.
But they also And that last one, in my opinion, is too broad.
Is it Craigslist?
Is it TaskRabbit?
Or is it ChineseSlave.com?
contacting, please say you are in saw it on the American jobs website.
And that last one, in my opinion, is too broad.
Is it Craigslist?
Is it TaskRabbit?
Or is it Chinese slave dot com?
Luckily for us, they both included phone numbers.
So we decided to give them a call and see exactly what it was that they were offering
with no fuss.
Mind you, I saw your job listing on American Jobs Network.
Recruiting farm workers for Oklahoma.
Is this the correct number?
Oh, okay.
Do you know anybody else that's hiring right now?
I have a bunch of people looking for work.
Okay, well...
Are you sure?
It's for a job in Oklahoma?
I have some people that may be interested.
Uh, no.
I'm not hiring people.
Oh, is this American Job Network?
No.
No, no, no.
It sucks.
Two things here.
One, that's convenient.
Two, they clearly had absolutely no idea what we were talking about due to the severe, almost comical Chinese accent, which, by the way, you've noticed I haven't done once here, which is really hard because I want to do it and these people are criminals.
Now, one reason they might not have wanted white Americans to know what they were up to is, you know, these recruiting agencies are basically sending workers into slave labor camps.
Our source on the ground, and Mr. Woodward at OBN, both spoke on this.
With the Chinese people, it's a few that run everything, and everyone else is living very, very far by.
You know, where I live, where I've been consulting, they had 60 greenhouses, and they couldn't afford a family for a
greenhouse to run it.
Each family had a 10x10 room. That's parents, kids, children, all living in a 10x10.
I've seen these rooms, some of them didn't have floors, there's lots of sewage running under them.
One bathroom for 15 families.
They have one dining hall that they'll add into the woods, or whatever. Shoot a well, haul the barrel off, they'll put
that up in a big rock with ice and peat everywhere.
Is this essentially a human trafficking operation by other means also?
Well, for the boots on the ground, the true farms themselves, it's slave labor.
So they see it as, you know, these people will get paid.
We talk to them once we serve search warrants on these farms and through interpreters.
Some of them will say they haven't been paid yet.
They're being told I'll be paid once our farm makes a profit.
They're living in sometimes 16 men in one mobile home with no running water, working plumbing.
It's just absolutely deplorable conditions.
But sadly, through interpreters, they say, I'm happy.
They won't complain, because they say, through interpreters, this is a step up.
You should see how my family's living back in China.
So that breaks your heart.
These are victims themselves.
But they won't complain, and so we can't oftentimes file human trafficking or labor trafficking on them.
But yes, absolutely, it's slave labor for these farms.
And if that isn't bad enough, the trafficking operations, of course, aren't just limited to farm workers.
Anytime you have human trafficking, it involves sex trafficking.
Oklahoma law enforcement often finds these brothels in more upscale neighborhoods throughout the state.
You get into the sex trafficking too, though, because there's also a lot of Asian females, specifically China and Japanese.
that were brought into this to cater to these workers.
And so we have identified underground Asian brothels that operated out of residential locations in Oklahoma, where through these underground websites, they bring in workers from, and not typically the marijuana workers themselves, but more the managers and administrators and people with real money.
They would come into these houses in multi-million dollar neighborhoods.
For prostitution and ketamine, we're intercepting a lot of ketamine, which is really big in the Chinese culture.
We've seized more ketamine since Oklahoma legalized marijuana than we had in my previous 28 years with our agency, and it's because of that Chinese culture.
So these brothels where there's ketamine trafficking and sex trafficking, and we talked to some of those women when we serve search warrants, and they absolutely said, we are victims.
We are not willing participants, and we have been able to get some of those females Now, this may come as a surprise.
The world of international narcotics and sex trafficking isn't all glitz and glamour.
It does come with some hoops to jump through.
Financial, legal, and a lot of these prospective entrepreneurs do so.
Now, here we have Bill Jones, the California Department of Cannabis Control's Chief of Law Enforcement.
It's a really difficult title.
Bill, you gotta shorten it.
He said in a March Politico article, these organizations, I can't overstate how much effort
they take to layer or protect their identity.
You don't have heads of the Chinese or Mexican cartels buying these properties.
Lucky for them, they have plenty of help.
So some credit here, a lot of the inspiration that led to us investigating this story
came from our tip line through a journalist in Maine named Steve Robinson.
Now, Mr. Robinson is working on a similar story of Chinese nationals taking over the weed industry in Maine.
During his research, he noticed that a lot of mortgages to the Maine grow farms were provided by New York headquartered Quantic Bank.
Among their many services, Quantic lists on their website specific financing to help foreign nationals acquire U.S.
property.
According to their own description, our foreign national mortgage loans may be the perfect home financing solution for non-U.S.
citizens looking to invest in U.S.
real estate.
We assess your overall financial profile, not limiting your chances due to paperwork or documentation obstacles.
You know, like the law.
Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice.
Hey!
What do you think this is?
The Indianapolis 500?
Knock it off!
We were lucky enough to speak with Mr. Robinson and learn a little more about how Quantic initially appeared on his radar.
Yeah, so I think this all really started in August when the Daily Caller News Foundation reported on a leaked memo.
It was really just a picture that someone took of an email that had circulated amongst Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security, that said that there were 270 or more illegal Chinese marijuana growing facilities operating in the state of Maine.
When the memo came out, it didn't have any details about where these properties might be.
But I communicated with Jenny Tare, the reporter who broke that memo, and she actually came up here to do some first-hand investigating.
And we took the properties that were on, I guess, a partial list that she got, maybe 12 different addresses.
And we pulled the deed information from the county registry office just to see who the property belonged to.
And one thing we noticed based on looking at those was that the same bank was popping up over and over again.
And it's Quantic Bank.
Naturally, we wanted to see if these bastards had any footprint in Oklahoma.
Spoiler!
They do.
These bastards do.
They certainly do.
Now our search of Oklahoma public records turned up a slew of results for Quantic, mostly
mortgages on rural properties.
These properties are located all over the states.
Here's an example of this property in Hominy, Oklahoma, sits on a 47-acre lot in the middle
of nowhere.
Prairie views.
Open land.
Good for sex trafficking.
I don't know.
47 acres is your oyster.
These other two, located in Seminole and Sayre, possess what seem to be already massive greenhouses.
Perfect for your tomato hobby.
Or narcotics.
And unwilling prostitutes.
This property in Howe has three massive storage facilities that would make for perfect grow houses.
And this ranch house in Stroud which doesn't stand out other than the fact that the buyer of the property comes from Queens, New York.
Remember earlier when Mark Woodward from the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics told us that most of the heads of these illegal bros came from Flushing, New York?
Flushing, in a neighborhood where... WHERE IS IT?!
Ding, ding, ding!
Queens!
So...
The same bank that lent money to illegal marijuana growers in Maine also lent to borrowers in Oklahoma, including those from Flushing, Queens, the hub of China's illegal weed empire in the United States.
Now, that's compelling, I would say, but that's me, Mr. Traditional.
It doesn't stop there.
Following up further on the Maine Wire's reporting, we cross-referenced Quantix Oklahoma mortgage documents for the name Ying-Chan Wang.
Real name.
Don't get mad at me.
Ying-Chan Wang, who along with another man named Stephen Ho, real name, signed off on a majority of the loans in Maine.
Now what did we find?
Nearly all of Quantics Oklahoma mortgages with Chinese names were signed off by Wang or Ho, again with Wang appearing on most of them.
Wang is a loan officer at Quantics Astoria headquarters.
Now, she earned her master's degree in public affairs at the University of Texas, but attended undergraduate at Zhejiang, hope I'm saying that correctly, but I don't care, University in Hangzhou, a city on the eastern coast of her native China.
Zhejiang University, close enough like most in China, of course, has strong, if not direct, ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
In 2004, the China's People Liberation Army, right, the PLA, posted an ad specifically at the university on their website.
To recruit people for Unit 61398, a hacking and espionage arm of said PLA.
In 2017, visiting scholars from the university formed a communist party cell at UC San Diego to discuss Xi Jinping's speeches.
And it was hard to distinguish them from other communist groups at said university.
We could tell by the height.
Do we know this?
Is Wang a CCP spy?
We can't make that claim.
But we can say, according to one official statement, she's on the radar of Oklahoma authorities.
Now, wanting to give her a chance to explain things for herself, we decided to give Ms.
Wang a call.
Quantic's name is now appearing on mortgages in Oklahoma that are suspected of being illicit marijuana operations and unfortunately your name and Mr. Ho's name, Stephen Ho's name is on a lot of these mortgages and I was just wondering if you knew that that was the case?
I'm going to have to send you to my young person at the firm and you can speak to her about this.
No, I would love to do that.
And again, we're not saying that this has anything to do with you necessarily.
We just, we would really like to speak with someone at your bank because we want to know kind of what the process is that's letting so many... Let me give you her name.
Yeah, that would be fantastic.
Her name is Casey.
Okay.
And her number is 646.
Okay.
Okay, thank you.
Okay?
Yeah, that's great.
Bye-bye.
Now we should have seen that coming, considering that it was all Supervisor Hangup.
But that's a far cry from the reaction she had when she spoke to Mr. Robinson in Maine a few days prior to our phone call.
Those, according to my investigation, those properties are actually being used as illegal marijuana growing operations controlled by Chinese foreign nationals.
I'm wondering if you had any knowledge of that when you were originating the loans.
Oh, they were all winning?
Uh, yeah, yeah, they're actually on a Department of Homeland Security list flagged as, uh, controlled by, uh, Asian transnational organized crime.
Oh my god.
So you had no knowledge when you were originating those loans?
No, I never met those people.
Oh my God!
Now, of course, they never got back to us.
They passed us off to the Chief Empowerment Officer, who's a patsy for the higher-ups.
So once these operators set up shop in Oklahoma, they need help getting their business off the ground.
And to do so, they have to meet A series of industry regulations.
So, according to Oklahoma law, licenses are available for Oklahoma residents who are at least 25 years old.
Applicants must provide documents establishing the applicant and the members, managers and board members, if applicable.
And 75% of the commercial applicant's ownership interests are Oklahoma residents, as required in the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana and Patient Protection Act.
Ah, yes.
The patients.
Forgot about them.
At least those Chinese slaves are keeping these patients medicated.
That last part, by the way, is crucial.
75% of the ownership must be Oklahoma residents.
So how do Chinese nationals operating on behalf of crime syndicates, who presumably are not Oklahoman citizens, And you had these entities, like I said, these law firms that would step up and say, don't worry about your 75% owner.
You pay us a fee, we're going to get you a license and that will include, we will find somebody to put down as your 75% owner.
So on the surface, you're going to look legit.
So when they do a background, because that's all you need to get a license in Oklahoma, pay $2,500 and pass the background, which is no felony in five years.
And so they made sure that the person on the license as the 75% primary owner is squeaky clean.
One such person who jumped out on our radar was a consulting officer out of Oklahoma City called Ma Ma Ma.
That's right, Ma Ma Ma.
Fun to say, easy person to dislike.
A former Oklahoma grower writing to us on the condition of anonymity actually outlined the work that MaMaMa does.
Something else I have learned by doing business with the Chinese is that they all, or at least the ones I've interacted with, are connected with a Chinese lawyer whose offices occupy an entire floor in a high-rise office building in downtown Oklahoma City.
I had occasion to visit this office.
And while there, I asked the man what his business was.
He indicated that he was basically a fixer for the Chinese growers.
If they needed services, he would connect them with local providers, such as myself, and he provided help with compliance issues.
That seems legit enough on the surface, but if I were seriously looking into this issue, this guy would be high on my list to investigate.
Every job I have done for them, I have been paid in physical cash, usually In American $20 bills.
It was also confirmed to us that Mamama was on the radar, it'll never not be fun to say, of law enforcement in Oklahoma.
So in March 2022, this same company, Mamama, filed a lawsuit against Xu Xinqi for defamation.
Now that lawsuit identified the owner of Mamama Consult LLC as one Yiyao Fu, known by her English name as Sonafu.
Because that's very English.
Of Flushing Queens.
Now, when looking into Fu, we found she also owns a residence in... Edmond, Oklahoma!
Right.
A record search of that property turned up a mortgage.
That mortgage was issued by none other than... Quantic Bank!
And signed off.
By Stephen Ho, the same loan agent attached to multiple property purchases of weed farms in Maine and suspected weed operations in Oklahoma.
Further investigation into Fu, English name, also revealed that she is a certified notary public.
So on October 24th, 2023, Fu notarized a groundwater usage permit application for JN Operations and owner Shu Qi Ni.
On December 24th, Shu was arrested and charged with...
Illegal cultivation and drug trafficking.
Now, looking into Jane Operation's LLC, we also found that it was filed for by an Oklahoma attorney named Matt Stacey.
Stacey, among other things, is a decorated veteran, a state senate candidate, and he was appointed by current Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt to head the state's COVID response team.
Oh, and Mr. Stacey is listed as the primary contact for 320 marijuana licenses, or about 3.5% of all marijuana licenses in Oklahoma.
And in February 2022, he was charged with 13 felony counts related to illicit marijuana.
Again, if we legalize all of it, there will be no.
Illicit market.
In an attempt to obtain some kind of comment from Yee Yaw Fu directly, the team here traveled
to Mama Ma's downtown Oklahoma City location and it got...
Spicy?
What the f***?
Like not level...
Like if it's, you know, level 1 to 5 on takeout?
I'm sorry.
Four?
You don't earn a five.
That's just, they're just, that's just to harm you.
So it got to level four when we caught up with Mrs. Fu on a conference call with her employees.
Oh, hello.
Yes.
Hi.
Is Ms.
Fu in today?
Ms.
Fu?
Yeah.
Is y'all Fu?
We had a, no, a scheduled appointment with her.
Uh... Is she not, yeah, we were supposed to meet with her today?
No.
Yeah, we're doing an investigation about the, The marijuana businesses that got shut down?
And we found out that she was attached to it, so we wanted to get a comment from her.
Uh... We're just curious to know her relationship with Matt Stacey.
There's a lot going on.
We're running an investigation.
I'm not Matt Stacey at all.
I never met her.
I've never spoken to her.
Oh, are you sure?
Because we found that you notarized a doc... Ms.
Scoob notarized a document.
Right.
I do a lot of notarizing.
I do closing as well, but I don't do Matt Stacey.
Oh, okay.
That's interesting because we were pointed in this direction for that.
Hmm.
I mean... What about Quantic Bank?
Are you familiar with Quantic Bank at all?
Quantic Bank?
Out of Queens?
Maybe a Stephen Ho?
No.
No, the thing is, we do close in silence.
Oh, okay.
We don't authorize documents.
Gotcha.
Right?
If you ask anybody, you have to show him more information because I don't really remember what that is.
Steven Ho?
Oh, yeah, that's understandable. But what about, do you know Stephen Ho from Quantic Bank? I think he did the
mortgage for you.
Stephen Ho?
Oh, okay.
That's interesting because we found Stephen Ho did the mortgage for you and Quantic has done a lot of lending here as well for the marijuana industry.
Is there anybody that we can talk to about this?
Because it seems that there's, we know that this place is under investigation so we were just curious.
Who we might be able to talk to.
I'm a Yelp fan if you want to talk to me.
Yeah, okay, yeah, that's perfect.
If you could, we're just very curious to know about your relationship or Ma Ma Ma's relationship with Quantic Bank because they're also part of this investigation and we're finding that they have a relationship with Ma Ma Ma and the marijuana industry.
It seems like there's a lot of connection going on here.
I don't have any personal relationship with Quantic Bank at all.
So you're not familiar with Quantic at all?
No, I'm talking about... So you've never met with a Stephen Ho?
I don't know who that is.
Hmm, okay.
That's interesting.
What do you, do you have any... We don't do mortgage here.
No, I know the mortgage on your house, though, was signed by Stephen Ho.
I have no idea who that is, though.
Is there any way we can get your phone number and we can follow up with you with some questions we might have?
Yeah, you ready to do that for me?
Yeah, perfect.
Okay.
And I'm sorry, who's speaking right now?
Yi Yaofu.
Yi Yaofu, hands full.
Okay.
We don't do any mortgage service, and I don't know who that Steven is.
But I do know the right stock payment, and I do.
Sometimes I provide the deed, the proprietary deed.
That's all my services.
I don't really know who's from the 10th bank or Steven Ho.
Okay, yeah, well, we'd love to talk to you about just how that came to your desk.
We're not, you know, not insinuating anything, just curious, but you said 405-0702?
405?
Who are you guys, by the way?
Oh, go ahead.
Yeah, no, go ahead.
No problem.
We're journalists investigating this story right now, so there's a lot of different investigations going on that surround this whole thing that my partner just kind of laid out for you guys, so we're just trying to get to the bottom of a few things, and, you know, we have a lot of questions.
If you could help us, that'd be great.
Because, yeah, I'm very sick and I don't really have time for juggles.
So, please leave me alone.
Thank you.
Okay. Thank you.
Thank you.
Did it work?
It worked.
Have a good time.
Yep, appreciate it.
Now immediately after that interaction, a researcher on this team found something that you would consider straight from a Hollywood script.
And not even necessarily one that's been redacted for the Chinese market.
Now you remember how Ms.
Fu told my reporters that she didn't really know Matt Stacy and that she notarized documents for a lot of people?
That could be the case.
As it turns out, Google Street View has excellent photographs of both Ms.
Fu's Edmund residence as well as of J.N.
Greengrove, a shuttered weed farm owned by Xu Jaini and fronted by Matt Stacey.
A picture is worth a thousand grams.
Now as you can see, the same two-door 28 Robins Egg Jeep Wrangler is at both locations.
And according to GEICO records, that Jeep is registered to Foose Edmund Address.
Now armed with this information, because you've heard that knowledge is power, Sometimes it is.
In this case it was.
My team went back to see why Ms.
Fu said she had no knowledge of things she clearly knows.
Hi, we were just talking to you upstairs.
We just wanted to clarify something because we came back and had a discussion.
I have no idea.
I have the watchman right here.
I have no idea.
Are you sure?
Because it is her address.
It's Ms.
Fu's address.
In Edmond, Oklahoma.
So this, right here on this document we have it was signed for by Quantic Bank.
Approved by Stephen Ho.
Which she says she has no knowledge of.
Am I seeing?
I don't know.
Can we get her number from you?
Because we do have photo evidence of her jeep at an illicit marijuana farm that she claimed to have no knowledge of, and the same jeep parked in front of her residence in Edmond, Oklahoma, that was signed for by Stephen Ho at Quantic Bank.
That was mortgaged.
Are you sure?
Are you positive?
Can we get her number, please?
We'd like to clarify this.
We don't want to report things that aren't true.
I'll be right back.
I'll see you all soon.
Also noteworthy of Fu, she's just filled with criminal nuggets as her phone number is listed as the contact number for Wangshen Fanmei, a service provider.
That offers full supervision services for overseas students studying in America.
Now, the site is new.
It was created on December 26, 2023, and it advertises a relationship, seemingly official, with the University of Oklahoma College of Aeronautics.
Having our suspicions We reached out to a representative directly for the university to see if there was any kind of an official foo connection.
Um, you know, I've never heard that name before, and I don't know why they'd be advertising us, because we're a kids program.
Yeah.
Based out of Norman, Oklahoma.
So, um, can you tell me what that website is so I can look into it?
Sure.
Um, by the looks of it, they just kind of copy-pasted your website's homepage onto theirs.
Um, it's called Wang Xin Fan Mei, so it's W-A-N-G.
Huh?
X-I-N.
F-A-N.
F-A-N?
M-E-I dot com.
Yeah, well thank you so much for doing that.
I will definitely look into that and I'll probably have to get OU Legal involved.
After exhausting the willingness of Mamama's employees to talk, we decided to contact Stephen Ho, the man who signed Ms.
Fu's mortgage, and see what he had to say.
I'm a, you know, I'm a taxpaying American and I don't, I'm not, you know, anyone that, you know, any illegal
activities.
Just to, so I have this clear, you don't know off the top of your head, you don't know Yi Yaofu.
I do not.
It was a very busy time in those last couple of years, so I do not know anyone specifically.
What was Quantics response when they were made aware that so much of their financing was leading up was helping
facilitate this?
Yeah, I uh, you'd have to ask them.
I don't know, you know, how they reacted.
You know, that might have been a PR level for them that I was not part of.
Okay.
So, I really don't know.
Yeah.
How much would you have to look into each individual loan that you were issuing?
Like, about the prospective borrower.
Like, the quality control.
How much would you have to look into the prospective borrower before you decide?
Or was it just kind of a numbers game for you?
Um, yeah.
You know, you know, like, Those two years, I mean, experienced Illusionator, were having career years.
So, um, we were, everyone was so busy.
Right, they were just... Yeah, they were just, you know, taking applications and, you know, double checking that they qualified and help them get a loan.
You know, in hindsight, now that, you know, I don't know which question, how many people... In hindsight now, the question I need to ask, not that they'll give me an honest answer, is to ask those extra questions.
By the way, what are you going to do with this property?
Now, to be fair, it does seem like Ho was unaware of exactly what Quantic was up to.
He may be an idiot, but it also looks like Quantic operated with the attitude of, it's best not to ask questions.
Okay, so let's back up.
We now know that New York-based Quantic Bank financed the purchase of multiple properties in Oklahoma, as well as illicit weed farms in Maine.
Alright.
These mortgages are signed off by Ying Chang Wang or Stephen Ho.
These are the loan originators.
Quantic, led by Stephen Ho, also wrote the mortgage for an Edmond, Oklahoma property purchased by Yiyao Fu, who also has a property in Flushing, Queens, the hub of China's United States drug network.
Now, in addition, To being the primary contact for a service provider to Chinese students in America that may or may not exist, Yiya Fu is the owner of Mamama Consult LLC based out of Oklahoma City.
Mamama Consult LLC helps Chinese nationals obtain marijuana grow licenses in Oklahoma by helping them circumvent industry standards as chill as they may be, including the requirement that 75% of the farms must be owned by an Oklahoma resident.
Ms.
Fu acts in this role Herself.
Foo is a public notary.
She notarized a groundwater usage permit application for JN Operations LLC in Shuji-Ni.
The farm has subsequently been shut down and the owner arrested as of December 28, 2023.
JN Operations has listed as the primary contact one Matt Stacey, an infamous Oklahoma attorney with personal relationships with the governor.
And, point of contact, for more than 300 marijuana farms in Oklahoma, Stacey has also been charged with 13 marijuana-related felonies.
So, to sum this all up, Quantic loaned money to multiple Chinese nationals in Oklahoma, including the owner of Mama Ma Consult, Ye Ye Fu, who, on at least one occasion, worked hand in glove with Oklahoma's most notorious weed magnet,
Matt Stacey, to set up an illicit marijuana farm that is now under seizure order by the state
of Oklahoma.
Okay so we've told you about the operations, the destruction, and the players on the ground.
But at the end of the day, there's one entity pulling the real strings.
And it's not a crime boss, it's not just a mortgage broker, or even a bank.
The Chinese Communist Party's cooperation with the triads has been incredibly well documented and has foundations stemming from the handover of Hong Kong by Britain to China in the late 1990s.
Writing for the publication Foreign Policy, J. Michael Cole describes this evolution As it relates to the relationship, by the 1990s triads were well established in both Hong Kong and Taiwan and the CCP had gone from seeing them as a brutal opponent to a useful tool.
After the handover, the relationship evolved in what was now Chinese territory.
Pro-Beijing gangsters threatened and on a few occasions physically assaulted activists and the few media outlets that remained critical of Beijing.
So pro-Beijing gangsters have remained active in suppressing any type of anti-communist Chinese sentiment, including in 2017 when triads assaulted a group of pro-Hong Kong democracy protesters at the Hong Kong airport.
We also know that the CCP and the triad work hand in glove when it comes to money laundering.
For example, in 2021, the Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in B.C.
revealed that a Chinese national earning about $40,000 a year Decent income.
Purchased $32 million worth of real estate in Vancouver, Canada.
And we know that it's a country that's good at math.
It doesn't add up.
A related summons showed that between 2011 and 2020, Hong Kong depositors moved $166 million into BC accounts.
Unsurprisingly, these depositors were linked directly to organized crime and the CCP, with one depositor being a member of China's foreign influence program.
So that brings us to our story.
Right back.
We know these operations connect far beyond Oklahoma.
We know they have international ties.
Including the Mexican cartel.
A U.S.
Treasury official tells NBC News that Chinese criminal organizations are operating in the U.S.
and now working with Mexican cartels by helping them launder money made from meth, fentanyl, and other drugs.
These Chinese entities with direct connections to the Communist Chinese government facilitating drug trafficking, namely fentanyl, okay, for the Mexican cartels, it's such an open secret.
That it took center stage November 2023 in a meeting between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping in San Francisco.
Biden said that he and Xi got to restart cooperation to encountering narcotics.
They got to talk about the fentanyl crisis and the production of those precursors to fentanyl, those precursors, the chemicals that are produced in China.
So the question becomes, are these Chinese crime organizations really operating independently of the Chinese Communist Party?
After all, it's kind of difficult to believe that the world's largest surveillance state could be so blind to such large-scale, burning, smelly operations.
As it turns out, Beijing isn't blind.
Maybe not the best peripheral vision, but not blind.
And in fact, they're utilizing these criminal organizations for their own means.
Here's a leaked Border Patrol memo that laid out exactly how profits from illicit marijuana operations flow directly back to China.
And of course, these profits Can be quite lucrative.
It's immensely profitable if you have slaves doing the work.
That's kind of a big thing.
More slaves right now on earth than ever in recorded history.
You can look it up.
You can use my source or any source available to you.
Because of situations like this.
Now, according to Mr. Woodward at OBN, they've intercepted truckloads of marijuana worth at least $28 million.
Mr. Woodward went into detail on the Chinese government's involvement specifically in Oklahoma.
It comes as a shock to me that these large-scale organizations could be operating in the United States in such a large degree without some sort of at least tacit approval from the Chinese Communist Party.
Is there any link there that you've seen or identified where you at least see involvement or kind of approval from the CCP?
Is there any indication of that at all?
Well, there's 100% evidence that the Chinese Communist Party is absolutely aware of everything that their citizens are doing within the
borders of their country and our U.S. borders.
There's no doubt. They monitor everything. They monitor their people, their activities,
the movement of the money. It's much like with the fentanyl crisis. China publicly said they're
going to crack down on the exportation of fentanyl out of China, but privately they've
done nothing to stop it and they know exactly what's happening.
And it's no different with the Chinese Communist Party's involvement in marijuana in the United States.
This is well documented, and I've seen other documentaries that have aired where one of the big parts of the Chinese Communist Party, one of their primary goals is one, acquire as much U.S. land as you can and number two,
acquire and gather as much and collect U.S.
currency as possible. And that's why people said, why are they involved in marijuana? Because it
can accomplish both of those goals. You need thousands of acres of land, sometimes with just
a few farms in places like Oklahoma, and it's an all cash business and 40 states have legalized it.
So that's accomplishing their goals. And specifically talking about Oklahoma,
I can't get into a lot of details, but I can tell you that we have identified
people who are considered national security risks tied to the Chinese Communist Party identified
on Oklahoma farms as among these people that come and check and monitor
the activities of the farms and the workers themselves.
They are linked to high-ranking people within the Chinese government that we personally have identified here in Oklahoma on these farms.
No, I'm not a Chinese national, but this math adds up.
We all know that China's been buying up farmland across the United States, and they've been securing troves of hard U.S.
currency.
At least, well, I hope you know.
If not, now you know.
And even though China claims it wants the world to convert to their own currency, the yuan, they reportedly You're the one that did it.
trillion dollars in foreign currency that is off the books.
They're Eddie Haskell-ing it.
You're the one that did it.
Yeah, but if you go around squealing on guys, nobody's going to like you.
To further understand the Chinese Communist Party's goals here, we reached out to John
Kassara, a former Cold War intelligence officer and a special agent at the U.S. Treasury,
who told us this.
Regarding direct links between the CCP and transnational crime, you must understand that
China is a command state, whether it be the fentanyl trade or the online advertising for
illegal products, organ harvesting, illicit tobacco, counterfeiting, which represents
about 2% of China's GDP, illicit fishing, human trafficking.
None of this could happen without the CCP's consent.
Chinese actors in the United States cannot be here without the permission of the central government.
What do they have to gain?
President Xi has publicly stated that the West is declining and China is ascending.
Criminal activity has become part of China's strategy to grow its power in conjunction with its authoritarian statecraft, military buildup, espionage, theft, deception, trade, loans, debt traps, payoffs, influence operations, etc.
to structure a 21st century with Chinese, quote, characteristics.
Look, the aim of the CCP here is pretty clear.
Xi Jinping has stated himself that he intends to see the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
And we have internal CCP memos that outline a strategy showing that this rejuvenation
means displacing the American order and instead replacing it, instituting Beijing's own.
So of course they would want to own United States farms.
And of course they would want to be involved with the illicit marijuana industry in Oklahoma.
But it's just one tool that Beijing is using to enrich itself and undermine the United
States.
But sometimes when the scope feels so big, you get lost in this game and forget that
there are real life consequences for everyday Americans.
It's killing, absolutely killing the legitimate industry.
As I said before, the first two years we probably had close to 3-4,000 farms and most of those were run by just local people trying to make a go of it.
So the market was already oversaturated.
And then you have an influx of 5,000 more farms that we've linked back to Mexican organized crime, Chinese organized crime, that try to look legitimate on the surface, but they're all criminal and they're growing for $100 a pound.
They're going to undercut the legitimate growers for sure.
Yeah, legitimate growers cannot compete.
They're having to grow for $800 a pound and they say I can barely make payroll.
It's not exactly healthy or positive or strengthening America to have this happening right in our backyards.
It's making the cost of living far more expensive everywhere.
It's destroying Maine's housing stock.
It's reducing our available housing supply, increasing the price of electricity.
It's bad for the environment.
And oh, by the way, the product that they're producing is laced with pesticides and fungicides.
It's not tested.
It's not regulated.
It's not up to standard of the legal product that comes out of Maine.
And one of the fungicides that they use is called Eagle 20.
And it's approved for use on your tomatoes because, you know, it's going to be okay if you eat it.
But when you smoke it, it turns into cyanide gas.
Brother, I just, uh, they killed our American dream out here is how I feel about it.
That's what me and my wife saved up and this was all in with our family to do.
You know, I was going to build a farm out here in a house and live the rest of my life and this is what I wanted to do.
And those are just the Americans who know about it, who've seen the screwjob take place.
It could just as easily be you.
When you have foreign entities who have specifically stated that their goal is to subvert the Western American way of life, and to do so through operations within your own country, how many businesses have been shattered?
How many people have gone missing?
How many years of record border crossings with people in our elected representative establishment who do nothing about it?
At what point does that damage you?
For all of the seen damage, there's unseen damage that can't even begin to be quantified.
You feel it every day, and right now we're showing you what we can verify, but there are intangible variables You can't put your finger on it.
Why?
Because no one wants you to put your finger on it.
You can't quantify it.
Why?
Because no one wants you to quantify it.
We know it's in the trillions.
That's a starting point.
We know it's in the millions.
As far as slaves.
We know it's in the hundreds of thousands as far as illegal border crossings.
Every year.
We know that it's in the hundreds of thousands to tens of millions of acres, as far as American farmland, that you may never get back.
We know it's in the billions of dollars that was lost during COVID that was foisted upon us by, again, to some degree, and by some I mean all degree, the Communist Chinese government and complicit representatives who weren't looking out for you.
We do what we can here and we appreciate your support.
We really do.
The Mug Club Undercover Unit here, the investigative journalists, none of this will ever happen without your support.
Hey, take a guess why?
Why do you think we're not monetized on any mainstream platform?
The same reason that John Cena had to apologize for acting like Taiwan even existed.
It's a growing market.
It's a very powerful government.
Who gets to determine winners and losers with the world's most powerful companies that you depend on every single day.
For your daily necessities, to the information that you can consume.
We don't know exactly how deep it goes, but my God, on the surface, it already sucks.
Doesn't it, John Cena?
I have one mistake.
I have to say it now.
It's very, very, very, very important.
I love and respect China and Chinese people more.
I'm very, very sorry for my mistake.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm very sorry.
You have to understand.
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