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IS ANY CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO WOMEN. REPORTER: CINDY YANG’S ATTORNEYS TELL ME SHE DOES NOT KNOW YUJING ZHANG UNDER ARREST FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY FOR LYING HER WAY INTO MARALAGO AND TELLING CONFLICTING ACCOUNTS OF WHY SHE WAS THERE WITH 4 CELLPHONES, A LAPTOP, AN EXTERNAL HARDDRIVE, AND A THUMBDRIVE CONTAINING MALWAR ANOTHER SOURCE SAYS IT APPEARS ZHANG THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING TO A CHARITY BALL PROMOTED ON CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA BY YANG. CLIFF LI OF THE ASIAN GOP TELLS ME THAT CINDY YANG WAS ONE OF THE SPONSORS OF THE SAFARI BALL . THESE ARE PICTURES OF THE EVENT AT MARALAGO LAST YEAR. ATTENDED BY PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SISTER. LI SAYS YANG HEAVILY PROMOTED THE BALL ON CHINESE SOCIAL MEDIA. ACCORDING TO ZHANG’S ARREST DOCUMENT, SHE TOLD THE SECRET SERVICE THAT SHE WAS THERE FOR THE CHINESE AMERICAN EVENT AND HAD COME EARLY TO FAMILIARIZE HERSELF WITH THE CLUB AND TAKE PHOTOS. BUT, IF IT WAS CINDY YANG’S SAFARI BALL SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY THERE FOR, IT HAD BEEN CANCELLED. AFTER NEWS BROKE THAT YANG WAS THE FORMER OWNER OF THE JUPITER SPA UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR PROSTITUTION AND HAD A WEBSITE THAT ALLEGEDLY OFFERED ACCESS TO PRESIDENT TRUMP’S INNER CIRCLE. SO THERE WAS NO EVENT AT MARALAGO THAT NIGHT THAT ZHANG WAS ARRESTED. CINDY YANG’S LAWYERS TELL ME SHE DOESN’T KNOW ZHANG AT ALL SO WE DON’T KNOW IF ZHANG HAD PURCHASED A TICKET OR NOT. FEDERAL PROSECUTORS SAY HER STORY DOESN’T ADD UP.

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The attorney for former spa owner Cindy Yang said Yang does not know Yujing Zhang, who is under arrest for lying her way into Mar-a-Lago during a presidential visit and telling conflicted accounts of why she was there with four cellphones, a laptop, an external hard drive and a thumb drive containing malware, according to prosecutors.But the president of the Asian GOP in Palm Beach County said it appears Zhang thought she was going to a charity ball promoted heavily on Chinese social media by Yang.Cliff Li said Yang was one of the sponsors of Safari Night, an event held to benefit children. On his organizations website, there are several pictures of Yang at the same event at Mar-a-Lago held the year before, when Asian GOP was also a sponsor.According to Zhang’s arrest warrant, she told the Secret Service that she was there for the “Chinese American” event and had come early to familiarize herself with the club and take photos.But if she was referring to Yang’s Safari Night ball, it had been canceled after news broke that Yang was the former owner of the Jupiter spa under investigation for prostitution and ran a website that allegedly offered Chinese business people access to President Trump’s inner circle.Yang’s attorney Evan Turk said that Yang’s business was a vacation package travel business, offering “The American Experience,” not access to Trump.It is unclear if Zhang had purchased a ticket to the Safari Night ball before it was hastily canceled.“Either she wasn’t aware the event was canceled after the Cindy Yang news broke, or she found out it was canceled and couldn’t take ‘no’ for an answer,” said Li.Although the arrest document said Zhang told conflicting stories, including that she was there to talk about fostering relationships between China and U.S., Li said he doubted she was “sophisticated enough” to be a Chinese agent, but was typical of Chinese tourists paying for access to Mar-a-Lago.“They come to snatch a lot of pictures so they bring a lot of cameras,” said Li. “Then they go back to China and brag about it.” Zhang remains in federal custody.Yang has not been named in any federal investigation, or contacted by investigators, according to her attorneys.