The US Department of Justice and the Federal Communications Commission are looking at California businessman James Su’s company, G&E Studio Inc. to determine if the company is violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).
Su’s company is in West Covina, CA, just east of Los Angeles. Federal law prohibits foreign governments or their representatives from holding a station license for a U.S. broadcast station. Su’s company does not own any radio stations, however it leases two 50,000 watt “blowtorch” stations, one that blankets the Washington, DC, area from suburban Virginia and one in Philadelphia. Additionally, his company provides nearly all the program content to stations in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Houston, Boston, Atlanta, Portland, Las Vegas, Dallas/TJ, northern California, and Hawaii. The program content is produced in his West Covina studio and by China Radio International, the Chi-Com state run radio system.
Su and his company are being scrutinized by DoJ because the FARA requires that anyone inside the US seeking to influence American policy or public opinion on behalf of a foreign government or group must register with the US DoJ as a foreign agent. Neither Su nor his companies are registered as Chi-Com agents. Su contends he is not violating US law because his and the CRI programs are run on radio stations his company leases but does not own.
For a very detailed examination of CRI’s operations, see the Reuters November 2, 2015, article headlined Exposed — China’s covert global radio network airs China-friendly news across Washington, and the world.
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