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  1. This thread follows known criminal Wong "Monkey-Paw" Ma.
  2. Overview Fuk Ching (福青), meaning 'Fujianese Youth', is a Chinese-American Tong-affiliated street gang turned internationally active crime syndicate founded during the Golden Age of Chinese-American street gangs in the neighborhood of Little Fuzhou, a Fukien-American enclave in Manhattan's Chinatown in New York City, which later expanded to other Fukien-American enclaves in the turn of the century, specifically Los Santos following 2005 and the establishment of a regional Fukien-American Association office in Los Santos' Chinatown. Members of the Fuk Ching gang are primarily young men of the second generation or onward from the Fujian Province of China with a minority of other Chinese nationals from other provinces and other South-East Asian nationalities. Activities initially ranged from petty extortion or robbery to heroin trafficking in the inception of the gang, but later the gang mastered their role in global human smuggling operations to catapult themselves to prominence through wealth rather than manpower as opposed to other street gangs. History of the Fuk Ching The creation of the Fuk Ching gang was brought about by young Chinese immigrants from the Fujian province of China in 1985, much later than a majority of the Manhattan-based Chinese gangs, which had gotten their starts in the late 1960's or early 1970's, and operated like many others in the neighborhood, territorial petty criminals earning their money through extortion and protection rackets. The region many of the founding members hailed from is significant due to its capabilities as a hub for smuggling both narcotics, weapons as well as illegal aliens. The two original leaders of the gang were Paul Wong (Kin Fei Wong) and Kin Tai Chan, Wong leaving the gang in 1986 to form another Manhattan-based street gang, the Green Dragons, which quickly rivaled the Fuk Ching. This rivalry prompted Paul Wong to order the murder of Kin Tai Chan in 1989, apart of a series of territorial wars between the Fuk Ching, Green Dragons, Flying Dragons and the Tung On Boys, causing Guo Liang Qi (known as "Ah Kay"), a co-founder of the gang and previous debt collector to take the reigns of the gang from that point on, prompting the revisualization of the gang from a minor contender in the turf wars in Manhattan to a major international syndicate through a transition from heroin trafficking in the 1980s to early 1990s when they turned their focus on human smuggling operations, charging migrants thousands for a one-way trip into Chinatowns across the United States, enslaving those who couldn't afford to pay for their journey to work as restaurant workers or petty criminals alongside them, prompting enormous growth in wealth and size. Their human smuggling route typically focused on maritime or land-based smuggling through Ecuador and then the United State's Southern border with Mexico, eventually partnering with the well-established snakehead Cheng Chui Ping, who, up until that point, relied on methods of smuggling utilizing fake documentation and airline travels for aliens, abandoning it to focus on maritime smuggling and the assistance of the Fuk Ching as enforcers for debt collection from smuggling victims. Their collaboration brought success to both partners of the agreement, eventually Paul Wong's Green Dragons and the Fuk Ching reconnecting to make more money together, their first venture together a large collaboration of multiple gang's or organization's operations to smuggle 286 immigrants on a vessel named the Golden Venture. Its journey began in Bangkok, Thailand, and was destined for New York City. Ultimately, discontent flared at the worst time at the heeding of Dan Lin Xin, a Fuk Ching member who started a breakaway faction of the gang to wrestle for a larger cut of the multi-million dollar operation Ah Kay had curated. This defection caused a civil war between Xin Lin and Ah Kay's factions, starting with a failed hit on Dan Lin Xin in a beeper store which resulted in two other casualties, causing Guo Liang Qi to flee to China and leaving his two younger brothers to handle the gang and arrival of the Golden Venture whilst he was in hiding. Enraged by the attempt on his life, Dan Lin Xin, along with Yun Lin, Jeffery Zhu, Cho Chin Lee, Chao Lin Fang rallied two weeks before the Golden Venture was to arrive and made their way to a safehouse in Teaneck, New Jersey where Ah Kay's brothers were staying with a few other members of the gang, shooting and stabbing one of Ah Kay's brothers and two other gang members, promptly killing the other brother as he fled down the street. As they made their escape towards the George Washington Bridge, the five were stopped by police and apprehended at the sight of the blood of the recent murders. As a result, with Paul Wong and Ah Kay in China, Dan Lin Xin's faction in jail and the brothers dead, this left no one to tend to the arriving Golden Venture. The thirteen man crew was informed by Lee Peng Fei, a Taiwanese Snakehead, about the Teaneck incident and the fact that no one would be there for their arrival. The crew decided their next course of action to be running the ship ashore on Rockaway Beach near Fort Tilden in Queens, New York, slamming into a sandbar along the shore and being met by police along the shore. The resulting catastrophe of people scrambling to escape, some dying trying became known as the Golden Venture Tragedy of 1993. This tragedy resulted in 10 deaths, whether that be through hypothermia or drowning, many of the dreamers being deported back to China or other countries which offered refuge while only a few were allowed to stay. Following this tragedy, the ring leaders of this operation were rounded up, many extradited from China while still on the run. In 1994, Guo Liang Qi, or "Ah Kay" was arrested in Hong Kong, extradited and sentenced 20 years in prison on counts of murder and human trafficking, yet only ended up serving 12 years after testifying against Cheng Chui Ping, or "Sister Ping", a major investor into the vessel and business partner, who was on the run in China for many years before being apprehended, extradited and tried. In 2006, Ping was sentenced to 35 years in prison for human trafficking, hostage taking, money laundering, and trafficking ransom proceeds. Earlier, in 1994, Lee Peng Fei, the Taiwanese-based Snakehead was arrested in Bangkok, resisted extradition until 1997, and was sentenced to 20 years out of 80 potential years in prison for his crimes. Guo Liang Chi ended up serving as an informant for at least fifteen different federal criminal cases, including the prosecution of 35 Chinatown gang members, adding onto his light sentencing. Overall, as a direct result of this catastrophe, over fifty arrests were made, leaving a major dent in the Chinese underworld. The Fukien American Association Ostensibly, the Fukien American Association exists to serve fellow Fukien immigrants in America as a non-profit benevolent association through a variety of annual cultural festivals, community-held fundraisers, and financial assistance services for both family and business-owners, and English, Mandarin, and Fuzhou classes for their community. While this may have been true in the heyday of the Association in its establishment in 1942, it now exists as a legal façade for the sophisticated underbelly of nation-wide Fukien-Chinese American crime, with its headquarters in New York City, branches existing in nearby Middlesex, New Jersey and at the opposite coast in Los Santos, San Andreas. The Association serves as a 'tong' type organization to the Fuk Ching gang, being a legitimate protector and provider for the gang, controlling crime in the streets, using these gangs as the means to an end. During the gang's inception in the 60's, Alan Lau (Man Sin Lau), was the Association's president and the "ah kung" to the Fuk Ching gang, being replaced by Kenneth Cheng in the turn of the century and until the modern day. In the early 2000's, the expansion of the FAA went both nearby and cross country, namely in New Jersey in 2004, and San Andreas in 2005 to accommodate growing Fujianese communities in communities across the country. The man behind the push to San Andreas was William Meng (Chi Zhu Meng), former treasurer of the New York branch of the Fukien American Association and supposed organized crime figure in the region. The cross-nation jump initially ended in catastrophe, though, with the dissolution of Lee Wah Shew's New Chinatown in tangent with the economic downturn of 2008. During this time, the branch of the Association went into some form of stasis, existing out of the Fukien Merchants Group in the economic zone of Banning, Los Santos in the working up of a revival movement of the gentrified area that once was Chinatown. The revival movement came to be in the beginning of 2021 in times of uncertainty after the Chinese community as a whole faced racially-motivated attacks from other Asian communities across the city. As of the current day, the movement for a new Chinatown is currently spearheaded by the Fukien-American Association of the Greater Los Santos area, stimulating the revival of Chinese-owned businesses within the confines of the neighborhood, establishing a new Little Fuzhou on San Andreas Avenue and surrounding blocks, repopulating the area again with a redefined ethnic community, which, in turn allows for the revival of the areas Fuk Ching gang, despite many previous members being incarcerated, deceased, or retired. The Modern Fuk Ching While no longer in the limelight after its dismantling in the 90's and early 2000's, the Fuk Ching gang still operates covertly, shrouded in the disguise of the Fukien-American Association's operations. On the East Coast, their strength remains known in the political scandals of New York State Senator and mayoral candidate John Liu. The scandal was focused on Liu's linkage with the Fukien-American Association and supposed ties to the Fuk Ching gang along with the accusation of CCP front groups donating thousands to his mayoral campaign through straw donors, resulting in the arrest of Oliver Pan, vice chairman of both the Fukien American Association and the United Fujianese American Association and Jennifer Hou, treasurer for John Liu's 2013 mayoral campaign for fraud and withholding evidence from the FBI. A transcript from Oliver Pan directly names the Fukien American Association and their support to John Liu; "On July 27, 2011, Pan met with an undercover agent, John Chiue, who was posing as a Chinese businessman by the name of Richard Kong. Chiue said he was interested in starting a business in New York City, and told Pan he wanted to get a politician from City Hall in his pocket so he could make calls down the road and clear up any red tape. John Liu was elected comptroller in 2009. During the meeting, Pan told Chiue about a phone call he had with Liu. “Usually my first question will be ‘John, how much money you need?’” said Pan, in a transcript of a video Chiue took with a hidden camera. Liu said he would need 4 million or 5 million dollars, according to Pan. Pan told the undercover agent that Liu asked him, “Can you talk to Fukien Benevolent Association, bring fifty people donating eight hundred. Fifty people from the Fujianese Association donating eight hundred.” Pan said it may not be possible unless they came up with a strategy, before saying, “John, actually quite easy, people donate, we give something in return.”..." - Outside of political scandals, the existence of the gang is flourishing in the newly nexus of Fuzhou immigrants in Brooklyn's Chinatown, located in the Sunset Park neighborhood, a previously Cantonese dominated neighborhood due to the expense and overcrowding of Manhattan's Chinatown. The new settlement served as a satellite to Little Fuzhou and opened opportunities for both these new immigrants and the continuation of the Manhattan based gang. On the West Coast, the creation of a new Fuk Ching gang lies in the hands of a new generation of the Fukien-American Association as the roots of Chinatown are replaced under its watch. The gang, however, remains relatively quiet in its reincarnation, building itself to a point of comfortable strength as it's operations remain relatively small-time. Developments are made by the day under the watch of the main branch of the Association in New York City and the incumbent president of the Los Santos branch, William Meng's son, Raymond Meng. OOC Section As a faction, we reserve the right to character kill any individual who associates themselves with the gang, marked with either joining of the faction script or posting on the faction thread. Any questions or concerns can be directed to either @slick! (slick#4451) or @ChunkyFoeFoive (Asianz#8316) or @Monad (Monad#3340) via a forum PM or a discord message. For general questions about portrayal, our Discord contains various guides on how to accurately represent a character within our faction, for an invite, add either of us above and simply ask. As a faction, our main priority is to portray an accurate depiction of a tong-affiliated Snakehead gang based out of Los Santos. At its current state, the faction has a very loose hierarchy and is in an incredibly weak state due to a majority of the previous core members being incarcerated, deceased or retired, meaning there is a general instability within the gang. This means; a majority of the criminal roleplay done by the faction will be reliant to its mother organization and will consist of petty street crime, which will be expanded as the faction progress in its natural course of development. We aim to provide a unique experience to each member of the faction and allow all to shape it as they will. We demand a high quality of roleplay to be held at all times, with a clear line of character development, meaning the addition of flaws and strengths for character to fit into the faction. We expect coherence to the rules of the server, and those caught breaking these rules will receive fair warning before being kicked at management's discretion. This faction is a sub-faction to The Mèng Shétóu 孟蛇头 faction.
  3. The Mèng Shétóu (The Mèng's Snakeheads) The Mèng Shétóu is an organized crime group majorly consisting of Chinese nationals and second and third generation Chinese-Americans with varying degrees of connections to the province of Fujian, along with a minority of members being from various other South-East Asian countries who either operate in Los Santos or internationally at the funding of the group. This group has operated under the jurisdiction of the Mèng family since their arrival in San Andreas in 2005, who were mainly responsible in the rise of human smuggling rackets which operated under the umbrella of the Los Santos Fukien Merchants Group. In recent years, the organization has diversified its itinerary of crime for the sole purpose of survival after multiple crackdowns by both host countries and South-East Asian countries on the growing illicit industry of human smuggling. The group's eye has turned to the art of extortion under the guise of the typically clean Fukien American Association, a benevolent society for specifically Fukien Chinese-American citizens, prostitution within the confines of Mèng-family managed hostess clubs and brothels, online and physical credit card scams and other forms of fraud, counterfeiting and tampering with legal documents and visas, tapping into the ever-growing market of organ harvesting and trafficking, and to compliment their human smuggling operation, the family has dabbled in smuggling back and forth along Pacific South Express cargo transport route, committing customs fraud on a small scale to import fake Chinese cigarettes, Chinese oil products, industrial materials and cheaply made textiles to American while exporting stolen American goods (such as watches, handbags, and other luxury items), cars, and other sought after American goods to Chinese and Thai ports. Most recently, however, they have expanded to simple drug-dealing as a way to reach ends-meet. The Fukien American Association of the Greater Los Santos Area Ostensibly, the Fukien American Association exists to serve fellow Fukien immigrants in America as a non-profit benevolent association through a variety of annual cultural festivals, community-held fundraisers, financial assistance services for both families and business-owners, and English, Mandarin, and Fuzhou language classes for their community. While this may have been true in the Association's heyday, it now exists as little more than a legal façade for the more sophisticated rackets the Mèng Shétóu operate across Little Seoul and beyond. Many in the neighborhood remember when the organization was based in the old Chinatown of Los Santos - now Los Santos' neighborhoods of Pillbox Hill, Mission Row, and Textile City - in the days before the Stock Market Crash of 2008, which drove a majority of working class Fujianese and Chinese-Americans out of Los Santos' Chinatown due to the housing market crisis, which drove up the low-class area's cost of living while many were unemployed to an unbearable rate. This marked the great failure of the Association, which overspent trying to keep the cultural center alive, and ultimately drove itself out of a home, as well. Unfortunately, since 2008's crisis, there has been no resurgence of a Chinatown in Los Santos due to the Chinese population's assimilation into the Little Seoul area, which has become a mixing pot for all Asians of the city. The Fukien American Association still trudges on, a shadow of its former glory as one of the great benevolent associations of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association. For now, it exists as a puppet organization of the Mèng family, whose patriarch, Mèng Chi-zhu, acts as its incumbent president, reigning since 2005. History and Methods of Chinese Human Smuggling Organized Chinese human smuggling into the United States has been going on for more than four decades, its beginnings finding itself in the dawn of a diplomatic relationship between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America in 1978. Following the establishment of these relations, a mass immigration of Chinese nationals began to flood legal channels of entry into the United States, overwhelming the country entirely. This reaching of capacity, as a consequence, opened opportunity for illegal channels of entry into the United States to flourish, creating the dynamic of Chinese human smuggling gangs that is known today. There are numerous methods of human smuggling, which are often used in tangent with one another to facilitate journeys into the United States. The most recognizable strategy of Chinese human smugglers is the usage of fishing trawlers, cargo ships or freighters to smuggle people into the United States. Another, more indirect strategy is the transport of immigrants to either Mexico or Canada, depending on ease of access at the time, and illegally crossing the borders into the United States. Another, more expensive strategy is also employed to move people into the United States, by the use of forged or modified visas and passports, immigrants will fly into the United States via airlines. This illegal channel of entry into the United States is only one portion of a large web of Chinese organized human smuggling, which spans across fifty-one countries around the world which are either connected to the direct transportation of people, the manufacturing of false documents used in less elaborate methods of illegal immigration, or both of these operations. For examples of other destination countries, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Hungary, Italy, the Netherland, Mexico, Panama, and Canada have long been plagued by the overwhelming presence of large numbers of undocumented Chinese immigrants. Reportedly, at any given time, there are thirty thousand undocumented Chinese immigrant stashed away in safe houses around the world, awaiting entry into their destination countries. Countries used as stashing grounds or rest stops include Canada, Mexico, Suriname and in rare cases, Russia. The Fate of the Smuggled Upon reaching American soil, the immigrants are rushed into safehouses, where they will be kept in unsavory conditions until they are able to pay off their debts owed to the smugglers. However, many of these undocumented immigrants are in this situation for a reason, and usually do not have the means to pay off their debts by themselves, so there are many methods employed by the smugglers to get their money's worth from each of their victims. One tried and true method for these smugglers is the usage and selling of the immigrants into forced labor, where they will work to repay off their debts to either a new employer or the smugglers themselves, there are many common place usages for this forced labor, such as unethical textile factories, other forms of sweatshops, agriculture, the service-industry, or otherwise. Often time, the immigrants are working for unfair wages, making it practically impossible to repay their debts to the smugglers while they still profit from the labor given. Another method takes a more violent turn, in which the smugglers will keep the immigrants within the safehouse as hostages, and will contact their victim's family and friends in both the destination and back home in China, and threaten and torture the immigrants until the debt is repaid by the family. After their release, the freed undocumented immigrant will often have to work to repay his/her family or friends. For the aware of the smuggled immigrants, they will have already had their debts paid by their family after they arrive, allowing them to simply walk free and begin repaying their debts to their families. Although Chinese human smuggling has been occurring for over four decades at this time, the vast criminal empires it is composed of rarely reaches the public's eye. The one exception is made for a few choice cases in which the smugglers had taken risks, causing their operations to end up in typically fatal disasters. Such incidents include, but are not limited to; - The Golden Venture Tragedy, when a freighter ship carrying 286 undocumented Chinese immigrants ran aground off the beach of New York City's Rockaway Peninsula on June 6, 1993. The death toll tallied up to ten dead, either by drowning or hypothermia, from those who had fled from the boat in an attempt to swim at the urges and demands of the smugglers on the boat, to try and flee from the law enforcement enclosing on the beached ship. - The 2000 Dover Lorry Incident, where 60 undocumented Chinese immigrants were being transported from Dover, deeper into the United Kingdom. The immigrants were cooped up within the back of the truck for 18 hours, which resulted in 58 of 60 dying from asphyxiation. - The 2004 Morecambe Bay Disaster, a cockling disaster in which 37 undocumented Chinese workers were picking cockles off Lancashire coast when the tide swept in, ending up in 23 of 37 drowning. The Mèng Shétóu's Role The Mèng Shétóu as an organization is expansive, with direct affiliates dotting themselves across the Pacific South Express cargo route, not only limiting their capabilities to the state of San Andreas. This loosely affiliated coalition forms the business relationship of the typical Chinese human smuggling operation, made up of recruiters, coordinators, transporters, document vendors, corrupt public officials, guides, crew members, and debt collectors. The Mèng family do not limit themselves solely to one role along the chain of affiliates they work with, typically taking the role of coordinator, transporter, document vendor, crew members and debt collectors, solely relying on the usage of China-based recruiters, transporters, guides and corrupt public officials to assist the operation along. The group usually funds their own operations, sometimes selling off space in their vessels to other investors with their own pool of recruitment of potential immigrants back home. OOC Section As a faction, we reserve the right to character kill any individual who associates themselves with the organization, marked with either the joining of the faction script or posting on the faction thread. Any questions or concerns can be directed to either @slick! (slick#4451) or @Monad(Monad#3340) via a forum PM or a discord message. For general question about portrayal, our Discord contains various guides on how to accurately represent a character within our faction, for an invite, add either of us above and simply ask.As a faction, our main priority is to portray an accurate depiction of a Snakehead gang based out of Los Santos. At it's current state, the faction has a very steep hierarchy, meaning you should not expect to push and shove your way to any form of power upon simply joining the faction, those who wish to seek that kind of roleplay, this faction isn't for you. At the faction's current state, there is no certain plans for its future, meaning you, as a member, may be able to shape it with your unique ideas, we promote more than simply the roleplay of human smuggling, as outside of that, your character is simply a normal human being doing morally bankrupt things. We expect a clear line of character development, a character with flaws and strengths which make sense to fit in with the faction. We, as a faction, expect coherence to the rules of the server, and those caught breaking it will receive a fair warning before they are eventually kicked at management's discretion.
  4. Meet Bao Lin, hope you follow along and enjoy her progression from immigrant to joining The Mèng Shétóu 孟蛇头
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