Last week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a news release regarding the guilty plea of a Chinese national to a “birth tourism” scheme.
On September 17, 2019, Dongyuan Li (李冬媛), a Chinese national, pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for running an Orange County-based “birth tourism” business that catered to wealthy pregnant clients and Chinese government officials.
Lis’s indictment details that she used 20 apartments in Irvine, charged each customer between $40,000 and $80,000, and she received $3 million in international wire transfers from China between 2013 and March 2015.
Li faces a statutory maximum sentence of 15 years in federal prison.
