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Property Mogul Indicted in NYC Mayor’s Office Bribery Scheme Listed as Chinese Intel Official
The property developer who allegedly bribed former New York Mayor Eric Adams’ chief-of-staff has served as a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) intelligence official and hobnobbed with party bosses for years, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
Authorities arrested Andy Zhu, founder of New York-based real estate firm East Times Group (ETG), and three others including Adams’ former chief-of-staff, Frank Carone, on charges of fraud and money laundering in June, according to the indictment. Between October 2022 and September 2023, the property mogul allegedly bribed Carone and his brother with $120,000 to successfully pressure the New York City Department of Social Services to award Zhu’s Microtel Inn with a $6,825,000 “emergency shelter contract” in order to convert the Long Island City hotel into housing for “migrant asylum seekers.”
NEWS FROM THE STATES
Michigan Appeals Court Reverses Two More Convictions Tied to Whitmer Kidnapping Plot
A Michigan appeals court on Monday overturned two more convictions related to the 2020 kidnapping plot of Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, ruling that it was obligated to overturn the convictions based on precedent.
Pete Musico and Paul Bellar were previously convicted of providing material support for an act of terrorism in the plot, alongside Joseph Morrison, whose conviction was overturned by a different appeals panel last month.
COMMENTARY
Commentary: The Data Center Conversation America Needs to Have
For decades, Americans have been told that “the cloud” is something invisible — a magical place where photographs, emails, financial records and now artificial intelligence simply exist.
Unfortunately, the truth is considerably less romantic. The cloud has an address and that address is a neighborhood.
WEEKEND SPOTLIGHT
Nashville to Host 2030 Super Bowl in New Titans Stadium
National Football League (NFL) owners voted Tuesday at the Spring League Meeting to award Nashville as the 2030 host city for host Super Bowl LXIV, which will mark the first time Tennessee will host the NFL’s championship game
ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE
Music Spotlight: Braden Hull
Braden Hull is a rising singer/songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, who hails from Lexington, North Carolina. I first met him at CRS 2026, where he immediately impressed me with his remarkable story. Hull never set out to be a musician; he wanted to be a fireman. When he was 14, he joined his local junior fireman program, and by the time he was 16, he was a fully certified volunteer fireman. He later got his EMT certification, opened a landscaping company, and did some DJ work on the side.
He started writing songs as a hobby. Hull shared, "I thought they were good songs because I wrote them, but it was my dad who said, 'You've really got something here. You can really write a song.'"
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