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Steve Robinson

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

Oh, shit.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

Okay.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

But they're very integrated.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

One of them's a mechanical engineer who just happened to find her way to Maine and get involved in real estate.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

But all four of them are Chinese nationals.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

Some of them have obtained citizenship through marriage or have maybe some kind of a legal status.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

I don't know exactly what their status is, but you can pull their sale history and see the properties that they were the agent for the property buyer on.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

and connect it to the Department of Homeland Security list, to my list, to the list of properties that have been raided, and you can see that these four real estate agents who just so happen to be born, raised, and educated in China, including one who went to the Beijing Foreign Studies Institute, which is just spy school for Chinese nationals, and another who went to, I think it's Zhejiang University,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

which is part of their economic espionage program.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

It's a big university, so I'm sure they do a lot of cool stuff there too that's totally not related to the Chinese Communist Party's desire to rule the world.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

But those are some avenues that I would pursue from a law enforcement perspective.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

You've got to squeeze the money and squeeze people at the higher levels because

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

Our approach so far has been to kick the door in on a marijuana grow and arrest whoever's there and destroy their plants.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

And a couple things happened after that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

So you arrest the guy who's there.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

The guy who's there is probably a victim of human trafficking.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

He has no idea.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

who his boss is.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

He probably only interacts with his boss through WeChat.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#243 Steve Robinson - What If China’s Secret Weapon Was Sold at Your Local Gas Station?

He gets instructions.