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Inside accused spy Wanying Zhang's California real estate empire

Zhang allegedly used fake records across multiple California properties, according to the New York Post investigation; a concerning trend in real estate documentation.

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Watch it as it aired: Chip Darnell on this story, from The Five O'Clock at 5:11 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are New York Post's, the jokes are ours.

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  1. Marguerite SzczepanskiI see paper lying, Chip. An accused spy, a multimillion-dollar California real estate empire, and records that allegedly don't hold up.

  2. Marguerite SzczepanskiI laminated that headline this afternoon.

  3. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the New York Post reports the properties are tied to alleged fake records, and she's accused, which means nothing is proven.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorDoes that change your view?

  5. Marguerite SzczepanskiIt changes nothing, because I already knew. I laminated my own deed in twenty nineteen, and I laminated the laminator's receipt.

  6. Marguerite SzczepanskiNobody forges a laminated receipt.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA receipt for the laminator.

  8. Marguerite SzczepanskiBackup. I laminated a map of every county in California, and I'll tell you, forty-one of them look suspicious.

  9. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMarguerite, where exactly is your bunker? Because you said forty feet down, but I'd like to know whose land it sits on.

  10. Marguerite SzczepanskiThat is classified, Chip. It is a fortress, and I own every inch of it, mostly, by which I mean I hold a long lease.

  11. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA lease. So the fortress has a landlord.

  12. Marguerite SzczepanskiA very reasonable man named Gary. He accepts payment on the first of the month, which I laminated. Also laminated the receipt.

  13. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd the unit, is it by chance in a strip mall, next to a mattress store, with a drive-through coffee place across the lot?

  14. Marguerite SzczepanskiIt's a storage facility, and the gate code is laminated, so I'd say we are safe from fraud. Mostly from fraud.

  15. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMarguerite, one last question. Where is that lease right now?

  16. Marguerite SzczepanskiUpstairs, Chip. In my car. The car is also laminated, in a sense, because I put a sheet on the dashboard.

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