Reposted by Ariel Lexari
15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
This is the first piece of an ongoing series:
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