At 10 a.m. on Oct. 24, the FBI searched all 12 restaurants owned by Tony (Xiaojun) Hu, a Chicago Chinese community leader with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The bizarre “bait-and-switch” press conference staged in New York this week by Chinese billionaire and self-proclaimed No. 1 philanthropist Chen Guangbiao drew some scathing comments from Chinese, who called him the “No. 1 hypocrite” and “the No. 1 idiot” in response to a Voice of America article.