{"id":67577,"date":"2026-02-27T19:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/new-york-businesswoman-sentenced-to-nine-years-for-30m-political-finance-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T00:55:07","slug":"new-york-businesswoman-sentenced-to-nine-years-for-30m-political-finance-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/new-york-businesswoman-sentenced-to-nine-years-for-30m-political-finance-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"New York businesswoman sentenced to nine years for $30m political finance scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry Xue Li ripped off millions from foreign investors and funnelled some stolen money into US political campaigns<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York<\/a> businesswoman was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison over a financial scheme that ripped off more than $30m from foreign investors and funnelled some of the stolen money into US political campaigns, including a Donald Trump fundraiser during his first presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Sherry Xue Li was also ordered to forfeit $31.5m, as well as property at three locations, and to make restitution to her victims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/27\/new-york-businesswoman-finance-scheme-sentence\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherry Xue Li ripped off millions from foreign investors and funnelled some stolen money into US political campaigns A New York businesswoman was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison over a financial scheme that ripped off more than $30m from foreign investors and funnelled some of the stolen money into US political campaigns, &#8230; <a title=\"New York businesswoman sentenced to nine years for $30m political finance scheme\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/new-york-businesswoman-sentenced-to-nine-years-for-30m-political-finance-scheme\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New York businesswoman sentenced to nine years for $30m political finance scheme\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}