Ava Kaufman
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431 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 4d ago
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What did you think it was?
I heard the same thing from another worker.
He goes by the American nickname Zane, and he too had clocked men shuffling into Pacific Place after dark.
Zane had noticed these men because he and his fellow construction workers had been staging a protest.
According to Zane, Guojun's company owed them tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid wages.
So Zane had actually spent several nights camped out at the property, sleeping in his car.
Zane showed me the videos he recorded from the protest.
He and his colleagues are holding cardboard signs that read, Arrears of Wages, I Need Salary, and I Work Hard.
In the videos, I could see Sylvia wearing a pink blazer and white sneakers and trying to stay off camera.
One of her real estate employees shouts profanities at the protesters.
He's shouting, scoundrels, we're not paying you a cent.
Fuck you all to death.
As for what was happening at night at Pacific Place, Zane figured it was after-hours construction.
Frank Acuna thought it was an illegal massage parlor, to put it delicately.
But neither suspected what was actually going on at their boss's building.
in— Pacific Place, it turned out, was housing an illicit casino and an elaborate drug manufacturing operation.
Both enterprises were allegedly run by one of the building's longtime tenants, who was renting space from Guojun.
This tenant had been previously sentenced to four years in federal prison for running a massive immigration fraud scheme.
His name was Haoran Ma, and his nickname was Dragon.
Police have raided Pacific Place and other addresses linked to Guojun or Dragon multiple times over the years, and they've uncovered an array of illicit commodities.
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