House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer urged FBI Director Christopher Wray to open an investigation into Florida massage parlor owner Li “Cindy” Yang and her alleged connection to President Trump.
“The facts in this situation are very concerning, and we urge Director Wray to adhere to the joint bicameral requests of the Democratic Senate ranking members and Democratic House chairmen and start an investigation,” Pelosi, D-Calif., and Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement Monday.
Democrats on the Judiciary and Intelligence panels in the House and Senate sent a letter Friday to the FBI, national intelligence agencies, and Secret Service asking them to open counterintelligence and criminal investigations into Yang’s relationship with Trump.
Yang allegedly advertised access to the president and his family on her website to Chinese clients.
Yang, the letter said, “is a frequent guest at Mar-a-Lago, has visited the White House on at least one occasion, and was photographed with the president at a 2019 Super Bowl Party at his West Palm Beach golf club.”
Police raided Yang’s massage parlor in West Palm Beach in February, charging several high-profile clients, including New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, as part of a prostitution sting.
Democrats say the allegations, if true, “raise serious counterintelligence concerns,” and “could permit adversary governments or their agents access to these same politicians to acquire potential material for blackmail or other even more nefarious purposes.”
