Agent met with targets

Agent met with targets
At one point, Chow told UCE 4599 that if Chow ever got "hit," there would be "a lot of people to avenge his death," FBI Special Agent Emmanuel Pascua wrote
in a court affidavit. The agent met with targets all over the Bay Area and elsewhere, including Las Vegas and Flushing, N.Y., records show.
Eventually, the FBI said, Chow and five other defendants laundered $2.3 million "in purportedly illicit funds" for UCE 4599, who told the men that the money
came from illegal gambling and outdoor marijuana grows. The agent forked over a 10 percent commission, the FBI said.
The undercover agent stayed busy. He reported telling his targets that he was interested in generating income "from any illegal schemes in which they are
involved." That included initiating deals to traffic in illicit liquor, cigarettes, guns and drugs, and asking some of the targets to kill people.
According to the FBI, the agent ultimately made contact with Yee through an associate who helped Yee raise money, including for his failed 2011 San Francisco
mayoral campaign. Yee allegedly agreed to trade favors in Sacramento for campaign contributions made by UCE 4599 - as well as agents UCE 4773 and UCE 4180.
It was also UCE 4599 who reported engaging in a gun-trafficking deal with Yee, again while offering campaign funds.
"Senator Yee told UCE 4599 he saw their relationship as tremendously beneficial," Pascua wrote in his affidavit.
Yee, he said, promised to name the agent to a Russian delegation upon winning the election for secretary of state.