$2.1-million house. $118,000 Mercedes-Benz paid with cash. $3 million in wire transfers. Inside a complicated web of 'birth tourism.'
A woman has admitted to running a “birth tourism” business in which she helped pregnant Chinese women come to the U.S. to give birth, the U.S. district attorney’s office announced this week.
She is the first of 19 people to plead guilty after being indicted in similar schemes, prosecutors said. Her promotions lured women by promising that the U.S. was the “most attractive nationality,” with years of free education, less pollution, retirement benefits and an easier way for an entire family to immigrate with an American-born child, according to the court documents.Li admitted to helping her customers file falsified tourist applications that stated the women would stay for about two weeks in locations such as Hawaii, L.A.
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