{"id":43797,"date":"2021-08-23T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T03:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797"},"modified":"2021-08-23T20:48:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T03:48:24","slug":"six-california-companies-convicted-of-scheming-to-avoid-paying-8-billion-in-taxes-for-imported-chinese-aluminum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797","title":{"rendered":"Six California Companies Convicted of Scheming to Avoid Paying $1.8 Billion in Taxes for Imported Chinese Aluminum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Businesses Also Found Guilty of Conspiring with Chinese Billionaire to Defraud Investors by Inflating Value of Company via Sham Sales of Aluminum in U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>&nbsp;<\/em>LOS ANGELES&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A federal jury Monday found six corporate entities guilty of participating in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the United States via a wire-and-customs fraud scheme, officials stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Courtroom.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22946\" width=\"318\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Courtroom.png 650w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Courtroom-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The conspiracy involved huge amounts of aluminum \u2013 disguised as \u201cpallets\u201d to avoid $1.8 billion in customs duties \u2013 were exported to the United States and were \u201csold\u201d to fraudulently inflate a China-based company\u2019s revenues and deceive investors worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The jury found the following two aluminum businesses and four warehousing companies \u2013 all of which were related to one another \u2013 guilty of one count of conspiracy, nine counts of wire fraud, and seven counts of passing false and fraudulent papers through a customhouse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Perfectus Aluminium Inc., an Ontario-based business<\/li><li>Perfectus Aluminium Acquisitions LLC, a subsidiary of Perfectus Aluminium formed in 2014 to oversee several companies that received aluminum pallets shipped to the United States after duties were imposed on Chinese aluminum in 2011<\/li><li>Scuderia Development LLC, which owns a warehouse in Riverside<\/li><li>1001 Doubleday LLC, which owns a warehouse in Ontario<\/li><li>Von Karman \u2013 Main Street LLC, which owns a warehouse in Irvine<\/li><li>10681 Production Avenue LLC, which owns a warehouse in Fontana<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The two Perfectus companies also were found guilty of seven additional counts of international promotional money laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">According to evidence presented at the nine-day trial, China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd., Asia\u2019s largest manufacturer of aluminum extrusions, Zhongtian Liu, the company\u2019s former president and chairman, several individual defendants and the corporate defendants found guilty lied to U.S. Customs and Border Protection to avoid paying the United States $1.8 billion in antidumping and countervailing duties (AD\/CVD) that were imposed in 2011 on certain types of extruded aluminum imported into the United States from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8lnbxtxfgzw-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"1 U.S.A dollar banknotes\" class=\"wp-image-43802\" width=\"356\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8lnbxtxfgzw-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8lnbxtxfgzw-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8lnbxtxfgzw-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8lnbxtxfgzw-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8lnbxtxfgzw-850x567.jpg 850w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/8lnbxtxfgzw.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 356px) 100vw, 356px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The aluminum sold to United States-based companies controlled by Liu was simply aluminum extrusions that were spot-welded together to make them appear to be functional pallets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">In fact, there were no customers for the 2.2 million pallets imported by the Liu-controlled companies between 2011 and 2014, and no pallets were ever sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The vast majority of the pallets were imported through the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and then stockpiled at four large warehouses in Southern California, all of which were purchased at Liu\u2019s direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Liu and his co-defendants orchestrated the bogus sales of aluminum to Liu-controlled companies in Southern California to falsely inflate China Zhongwang\u2019s value. Liu was the majority owner of China Zhongwang, which has been listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong since a 2009 initial public offering that raised $1.26 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">After the AD\/CVD duties were put in place in 2011, the company\u2019s annual reports falsely claimed that there was a robust demand for the aluminum pallets in the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Although the annual reports asserted that the aluminum pallets were being sold to independent third parties, and defendants used these reported \u201csales\u201d to inflate China Zhongwang\u2019s reported sales volume and purported volume of exports to the United States, in fact, the aluminum was being stockpiled by Liu-controlled entities in more than 2 million square feet of warehouse space owned by the warehouse defendants in Southern California, as well as at Liu\u2019s New Jersey facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1530\" width=\"365\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/IRS-95x64.jpg 95w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Since there was no actual demand for the pallets, defendants Liu and China Zhongwang arranged for aluminum melting facilities to be built and acquired, which were to be used to reconfigure the aluminum imported as pallets into a form with commercial value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The defendants facilitated their schemes by laundering hundreds of millions of dollars through shell companies to the U.S.-based aluminum companies controlled by Liu. The funds were then transferred to China Zhongwang and the other shell companies as payments for the aluminum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner has scheduled a December 13 sentencing hearing in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remaining four defendants charged in the 2019 federal grand jury indictment in this case have yet to appear in court in the United States to face the criminal charges in this matter:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Zhongtian Liu, 57, a billionaire Chinese citizen who is a former Tustin resident, and who is the former president and former chairman of the board of China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd.;<\/li><li>China Zhongwang Holdings Ltd., a publicly traded aluminum company based in Liaoyang City that at the time of the indictment was the largest aluminum extrusion manufacturer in Asia and the second largest in the world;<\/li><li>Zhaohua Chen, 62, a Chinese national who allegedly was a close friend of Liu and a key player in the scheme; and<\/li><li>Xiang Chun Shao, a.k.a. \u201cJohnson Shao,\u201d 60, most recently of Irvine, who allegedly managed a collection of Southern California businesses that pretended to be independent third parties importing the Chinese aluminum.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">In 2017, the United States Attorney\u2019s Office filed civil forfeiture actions against the four Southern California warehouses used by Perfectus to store the pallets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">In 2018, the government filed a fifth civil forfeiture complaint against \u201capproximately 279,808 Aluminum Structures in the Shape of Pallets,\u201d about half of which were seized in early 2017 at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and the other half were seized from three other warehouses Perfectus was using to store the pallets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Those civil asset forfeiture cases have been stayed pending the completion of the criminal prosecution, in which the government is seeking the criminal forfeiture of the warehouses and seized aluminum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Homeland Security Investigations and IRS Criminal Investigation investigated this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses Also Found Guilty of Conspiring with Chinese Billionaire to Defraud Investors by Inflating Value of Company via Sham Sales of Aluminum in U.S. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;LOS ANGELES&nbsp; A federal jury Monday found six&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Six California Companies Convicted of Scheming to Avoid Paying $1.8 Billion in Taxes for Imported Chinese Aluminum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Businesses Also Found Guilty of Conspiring with Chinese Billionaire to Defraud Investors by Inflating Value of Company via Sham Sales of Aluminum in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Six California Companies Convicted of Scheming to Avoid Paying $1.8 Billion in Taxes for Imported Chinese Aluminum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Businesses Also Found Guilty of Conspiring with Chinese Billionaire to Defraud Investors by Inflating Value of Company via Sham Sales of Aluminum in\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"American Justice Notebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanJusticeNotebook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-08-24T03:47:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-24T03:48:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-2-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"275\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"183\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Raul\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Raul\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Raul\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0\"},\"headline\":\"Six California Companies Convicted of Scheming to Avoid Paying $1.8 Billion in Taxes for Imported Chinese Aluminum\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-24T03:47:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-24T03:48:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797\"},\"wordCount\":949,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/download-2-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"American Justice\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797\",\"name\":\"Six California Companies Convicted of Scheming to Avoid Paying $1.8 Billion in Taxes for Imported Chinese Aluminum\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/download-2-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-08-24T03:47:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-08-24T03:48:24+00:00\",\"description\":\"Businesses Also Found Guilty of Conspiring with Chinese Billionaire to Defraud Investors by Inflating Value of Company via Sham Sales of Aluminum in\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?p=43797#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/download-2-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/08\\\/download-2-1.jpg\",\"width\":275,\"height\":183},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"American Justice Notebook\",\"description\":\"&quot;Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.&quot; \u2014  Thomas Jefferson\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"American Justice Notebook\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/Justice-Scales.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/Justice-Scales.jpg\",\"width\":675,\"height\":231,\"caption\":\"American Justice Notebook\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/AmericanJusticeNotebook\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0\",\"name\":\"Raul\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Raul\"},\"description\":\"Raul Hernandez is a former journalist. He has worked as a newspaper reporter for more than 30 years at the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso Times, Press Enterprise in Riverside, California and the Ventura County Star in California. He was a court reporter for more than 20 years.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/cjnotebook.com\\\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Six California Companies Convicted of Scheming to Avoid Paying $1.8 Billion in Taxes for Imported Chinese Aluminum","description":"Businesses Also Found Guilty of Conspiring with Chinese Billionaire to Defraud Investors by Inflating Value of Company via Sham Sales of Aluminum in","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Six California Companies Convicted of Scheming to Avoid Paying $1.8 Billion in Taxes for Imported Chinese Aluminum","og_description":"Businesses Also Found Guilty of Conspiring with Chinese Billionaire to Defraud Investors by Inflating Value of Company via Sham Sales of Aluminum in","og_url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797","og_site_name":"American Justice Notebook","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanJusticeNotebook","article_published_time":"2021-08-24T03:47:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-08-24T03:48:24+00:00","og_image":[{"width":275,"height":183,"url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-2-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Raul","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Raul","Est. reading time":"5 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797"},"author":{"name":"Raul","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0"},"headline":"Six California Companies Convicted of Scheming to Avoid Paying $1.8 Billion in Taxes for Imported Chinese Aluminum","datePublished":"2021-08-24T03:47:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-24T03:48:24+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797"},"wordCount":949,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-2-1.jpg","articleSection":["American Justice"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797","name":"Six California Companies Convicted of Scheming to Avoid Paying $1.8 Billion in Taxes for Imported Chinese Aluminum","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-2-1.jpg","datePublished":"2021-08-24T03:47:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-08-24T03:48:24+00:00","description":"Businesses Also Found Guilty of Conspiring with Chinese Billionaire to Defraud Investors by Inflating Value of Company via Sham Sales of Aluminum in","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?p=43797#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-2-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/download-2-1.jpg","width":275,"height":183},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/","name":"American Justice Notebook","description":"&quot;Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.&quot; \u2014  Thomas Jefferson","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#organization","name":"American Justice Notebook","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Justice-Scales.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Justice-Scales.jpg","width":675,"height":231,"caption":"American Justice Notebook"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AmericanJusticeNotebook"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/#\/schema\/person\/f5521baddca77b521f012298775186c0","name":"Raul","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c7f80bd073aca2abc2fc18e390e13d00b72d9d3a81bca4fd53e3567b02efee6f?s=96&r=g","caption":"Raul"},"description":"Raul Hernandez is a former journalist. He has worked as a newspaper reporter for more than 30 years at the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso Times, Press Enterprise in Riverside, California and the Ventura County Star in California. He was a court reporter for more than 20 years.","sameAs":["https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43804,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43797\/revisions\/43804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cjnotebook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}