Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and Hillary Clinton's brother Anthony Rodham are facing a $17 million fraud lawsuit from Chinese investors in Greentech Automotive, a struggling electric car company.

Politico reports 32 Chinese citizens filed the suit last week in Virginia, claiming that they were scammed out of about $560,000 each due to false promises made by McAuliffe and Rodham.

The Chinese investors said they put their money into Greentech based on the promise from McAuliffe and Rodham that they would be given permanent residency in the U.S. under a program that gives green cards to investors in foreign-funded companies that create U.S. jobs.

However, they now face deportation because the Department of Homeland Security has determined that Greentech did not generate enough jobs.

Corrie O'Connor