The FBI realized that she's probably traveling on a fake passport so we don't have any idea what that identity is but her kids might not be and they started monitoring the travel of her children. One of them was going to be in Hong Kong which had a more kind of friendly relationship with the US in terms of law enforcement so if they could get as far as Hong Kong they could pick her up in Hong Kong. She promptly hired the biggest most famous criminal defense attorney in New York City a guy named Jerry Sharkdell who's the person who like all the big mobsters hired. But one of the big final twists in this story is that the FBI had a star witness against her
Investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe joins us on the podcast to tell the story of an unlikely criminal mastermind, Sister Ping - a middle-aged, hardworking woman who is highly respected among her community. Originally from Fujian province, China, for years she runs an incredibly lucrative people smuggling business from New York's Chinatown until she comes into trouble with violent gangsters and then later the FBI. In conversation with our host Poppy Damon, they discuss immigration, the dark underbelly of the American Dream, and the questions of who gets to stay. They also speak about Patrick's involvement in the Oscar-nominated documentary starring Nan Goldin and directed by Laura Poitras, All The Beauty And The Bloodshed.
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