District Court in Milwaukee Peng also is charged with identity theft. Both are charged with felony wire fraud in U.S. Peng is being held without bail and Ai is free on a signature bond. The couple were arrested in March in a Los Angeles Chinese restaurant shortly after they returned to the United States. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel first reported on the investigation in December.Īt the center of the scheme is Mao Peng, 25, a Kenosha man who fled to China with his wife, Min Ai, more than two years ago - around the time the Secret Service seized 31 vehicles owned by Peng or his Longen Trading company.

Stadtmueller is the latest development in the case, in which straw buyers purchased and exported more than 400 luxury cars worth nearly $30 million to China and Korea.

May 23, 2015: Judge OKs sale of fancy cars seized in money laundering scheme.

March 18, 2015: Man accused of identity theft, fraud in car export scheme arrested.

Mao Pengīelow are updates to Oneida Eye’s Decempost about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s reporting, Secret Service Eyes Kenosha Couple & Oneida Tribe Members In Money Laundering Car Scam. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin, Case No.

Information / Background Allegations To All Counts, U.S.

Mao Peng re: Native American straw buyer / luxury cars tax avoidance fraud schemes

MaCriminal Complaint & Affidavit in Support, U.S.

Mao Peng, led tax-evading luxury car export scam in which at least 22 Native Americans were straw buyers or identity theft victims.

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