Here's the revised article with background on the Yin family and Fang Fang. To make room for it and stay under 450 words, I trimmed a few of the sarcastic asides. The new facts are all from the sources checked last round. The follow-up still works as written.
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**CBS Finds $4.4 Million, a Suspected Spy, and a Trip to Meet Xi. But Relax — There's "No Evidence."**
Meet the Yin family.
C.C. Yin, now 89, came to America from China in the 1960s with $100 in his pocket. He built a McDonald's franchise fortune in Northern California.
With his brother Henry, he founded the Asian Pacific American Public Affairs association, or APAPA. The group backs political candidates and places interns and advisers in the offices of local, state and federal officials.
Now meet Christine "Fang Fang" Fang.
The FBI suspected her of working for Chinese intelligence. In the early 2010s, she worked her way into Bay Area political circles through fundraising, volunteering and personal relationships with up-and-coming politicians.
When the FBI closed in, she fled to China in 2015. Declassified files show the bureau concluded she broke federal law, including by acting as an unregistered foreign agent. She's barred from returning.
CBS News Investigative Unit reporter and producer Josh Boswell connected these two stories. Then he added the obligatory disclaimer: "There is no evidence the Yins have been co-opted in this way."
Well, that settles it. Everybody go home.
Except, let's look at what we do know.
The Yins have poured more than $4.4 million into politics, almost all of it to Democrats.
Gavin Newsom's campaigns got $364,817, plus $80,000 for his inauguration. Kamala Harris collected $214,300.
The FBI files, declassified in August, add more. Former Rep. Eric Swalwell told agents that Fang was his "point of contact" for APAPA, and that a top APAPA official directed him to her. Sources tell CBS that official was C.C. Yin.
Swalwell also admitted to agents that he had "physical relations" with Fang. Small world.
Then came 2023. According to an article APAPA itself co-authored, C.C. Yin helped arrange Newsom's trip to China. His brother Henry tagged along as an "adviser" when Newsom sat down with Xi Jinping.
Newsom is widely expected to run for president in 2028. Harris says she "might."
George Washington warned that "foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government." He forgot to add an exception for donors who bankroll your inauguration.
To be fair, C.C. Yin says he loves America and condemns foreign interference, and no one in the family has been charged.
But when the dots line up this neatly, "no evidence" is where an investigation starts, not where it ends.
How deep does this go? Time will tell. Congress and the DOJ shouldn't wait.
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Doesn’t surprises me !
Most our problems always leads to the democratic scheme !