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DOJ accuses casino tycoon and informal Trump adviser Steve Wynn of being a Chinese agent and lobbying the former president on behalf of China

Cheryl Teh   

DOJ accuses casino tycoon and informal Trump adviser Steve Wynn of being a Chinese agent and lobbying the former president on behalf of China
  • The DOJ is suing Steve Wynn to compel him to register as a Chinese foreign agent.
  • The DOJ said in a court filing that Wynn had lobbied Trump on behalf of the Chinese.

The Justice Department alleges that $4$4$4 once acted as a Chinese agent and lobbied the former president on behalf of China.

In a $4 filed on Tuesday, the DOJ argued that Wynn should be made to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, citing what they said was Wynn's backchanneling with a former PRC official to lobby Trump.

The DOJ named the ex-PRC official as $4 and said that Wynn worked with him and "acted as an agent" from June to August 2017, when he "engaged in political activities" in the US on Sun and China's behalf.

"Specifically, at the request of Sun, and on behalf of the PRC, the Defendant conveyed to former President Donald J. Trump and his Administration ('the Trump Administration') the PRC's request to remove from the country a PRC national who had sought political asylum in the United States," the complaint read.

The $4 reported that the individual Wynn may have lobbied Trump to remove from the US was Miles Guo Wengui, a fugitive tycoon known for $4 Wengui was also a $4 and $4 of Trump adviser Steve Bannon. Guo was $4 and now lives in exile. He has not been extradited to China yet but has $4.

At the time of the alleged lobbying, Wynn $4, a special administrative region of China, and was identified by Beijing as someone who "would be helpful in getting access to Trump Administration officials," according to the DOJ.

The DOJ also said in its complaint that Wynn's conduct "was motivated by his desire to protect his business interests in the PRC."

Wynn's lawyers denied the DOJ's claims about the casino mogul in a statement to $4.

"Steve Wynn has never acted as an agent of the Chinese government and had no obligation to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. We respectfully disagree with the Department of Justice's legal interpretation of Fara and look forward to proving our case in court," said the statement from Wynn's lawyers, Reid Weingarten and Brian Heberlig.

The casino mogul $4 and also vacated his position as the RNC's finance chair the same year, following a report from $4 in which several Wynn Resorts employees accused Wynn of sexual harassment, coercion, and indecent exposure.

Trump and his associates on Tuesday $4 actions that portend continued legal trouble for the former president. For one, the DOJ has $4, which could signal further investigations into Trump's orbit. A federal grand jury also $4, who $4

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