The New York Times is reporting that Xing Wu Pan, a Liu fund-raiser, has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and attempted wire fraud. Ms. Jia Hou, a former Liu campaign treasurer, was acquitted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, but was convicted of lying to federal agents and failing to fully respond to a grand jury subpoena that sought e-mails and other documents in what prosecutors said was an effort to cover-up her role in the scheme.
The charges stemmed from evidence that the two had relied on so-called straw donors — people whose contributions are reimbursed by others — to raise money and use some of it to obtain city matching funds.
