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Mar-a-Lago interloper sits in ICE center 18 months after sentence over

Jane Musgrave
Palm Beach Post
Yujing Zhang, 33, sparked security concerns when she tried to gain entry to Mar-a-Lago in March of 2019 while carrying four cellphones, a computer, two Chinese passports, an external hard drive and a thumb drive.

After Chinese national Yujing Zhang was convicted in 2019 of lying to Secret Service agents to get into Mar-a-Lago, federal prosecutors pushed for an 18-month sentence.

Although a U.S. District Court judge spurned their request, prosecutors got their wish and then some.

Roughly 18 months after Zhang completed her eight-month sentence, the 35-year-old self-described business woman remains in a federal detention center at the Glades County jail, awaiting deportation.