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Jami Webb, with her fiancé, Kevin Chen, mourn her mother, Xiaojie Tan, the owner of Young’s Asian Massage, one of three Atlanta-area spas attacked last week in a mass shooting that killed a total of eight people, in Atlanta on March 19, 2021. Owners and employees at the spas attacked last week were immigrants with similar dreams, but were separated by a vast gap in money and power. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times) XNYT103 XNYT103

March 24, 2021 at 12:46 pm

2 immigrant paths: One led to wealth, the other ended in death in Atlanta spas

Owners and employees at the Atlanta-area spas attacked last week were Asian immigrants with similar dreams, but were separated by a vast gap in money...

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March 3, 2021 at 3:24 pm

Inspector general’s report cites Elaine Chao for misuse of office

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department’s inspector general asked the Justice Department in December to consider a criminal investigation into what it said was Elaine Chao’s...

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January 23, 2020 at 5:01 pm

Africa’s richest woman set to face charges in Angola over embezzlement

Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman and the daughter of Angola’s former president, is set to be charged with committing crimes to enrich herself, after...

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June 2, 2019 at 5:20 pm

For the Chao family, deep ties to the world’s 2 largest economies

The family of Elaine Chao, the transportation secretary and wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. and the Senate majority leader, has high-level political connections not...

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June 2, 2019 at 5:19 pm

Chao a ‘bridge’ to China and her family’s business, in the Trump Cabinet VIEW

The email arrived in Washington before dawn. An official at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing was urgently seeking advice from the State Department about an...

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Workers at part of the East Coast Rail Link, a scandal-plagued, now-suspended infrastructure project that was to be part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, in Bentong, Malaysia, Nov. 17, 2018. The influential consultancy McKinsey advised both the state-owned Chinese company building the railroad and the Malaysian government that approved it. (Lauren DeCicca/The New York Times) XNYT41 XNYT41

December 15, 2018 at 9:32 am

The iconic U.S. company raising the stature of corrupt governments around the world

McKinsey's clients have included the Saudis, Turkey, Ukraine, China and Kremlin-linked firms in Russia. The company defends its work around the world, saying that it...

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November 25, 2018 at 12:25 pm

To catch a fugitive official, China holds his two American children

Authorities have held the siblings for months under a practice known as an exit ban — a tactic that has become the latest flash point...

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November 4, 2018 at 1:15 am

Consulting firms retain lucrative Saudi alliance, shaping crown prince’s vision

Booz Allen and competitors McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group have stayed close to the Saudi monarchy after playing critical roles in the rise of Crown...

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March 28, 2018 at 2:00 pm

Behind the rise of China’s HNA: The chairman’s brother

Wang Wei, the younger brother of HNA’s co-chairman, has been a critical surrogate in the rise of the Chinese company as a global deal maker....

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The offices of Appleby, an offshore law firm, in Hamilton, Bermuda, Oct. 31, 2017. The core of the Paradise Papers leak, totaling more than 13.4 million documents, focuses on Appleby, a 119-year old company that has helped obscure the wealth of multinational companies and the superrich. (Meredith Andrews/The New York Times) XNYT44

November 6, 2017 at 10:34 am

Paradise Papers: Millions of leaked files shine light on where the elite hide their money

The Paradise Papers are shedding light on the trillions of dollars that move through offshore tax havens. They focus on a Bermudan law firm that...

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