{"id":5495,"date":"2026-10-02T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/california-man-charged-in-300m-china-ai-chip-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T00:48:44","slug":"california-man-charged-in-300m-china-ai-chip-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/02\/california-man-charged-in-300m-china-ai-chip-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"California Man Charged in $300M China AI Chip Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F1yVlbvLwHdE%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DOJ announces conviction in fraud crackdown\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1yVlbvLwHdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) California \u2013 Federal authorities have arrested a California technology company owner accused of participating in an international scheme to illegally send more than $300 million in export-controlled high-end computer servers to China, allegedly using false documents, third-country shipping routes and staged dummy servers to conceal the equipment\u2019s true destination. Greg Lui, 38, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, of San Gabriel, California, was arrested Oct. 1 following a three-count federal indictment returned Sept. 29, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Lui owns Earthmade Computer Inc., a closely held corporation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/california-man-charged-in-300m-china-ai-chip-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, CA \u2013 October 2, 2026 (STL.News) California \u2013 Federal authorities have arrested a California technology company owner accused of participating in an international scheme to illegally send more than $300 million in export-controlled high-end computer servers to China,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5497,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/5497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}