U.S. v. NG LAP SENG

No. 18-1725-cr August Term 2018.

934 F.3d 110 (2019)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. NG LAP SENG, aka David Ng, aka David Ng Lap Seng, Defendant-appellant, John W. Ashe, Francis Lorenzo, aka Frank Lorenzo, Jeff C. Yin, aka Yin Chuan, Shiwei Yan, Heidi Hong Piao, aka Heidi Park, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 9, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel C. Richenthal , Assistant United States Attorney ( Janis M. Echenberg , Douglas S. Zolkind , Sarah K. Eddy , Assistant United States Attorneys, on the brief), for Geoffrey S. Berman , United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, New York, New York, for Appellee.

Paul Clement ( Viet D. Dinh , Erin E. Murphy , C. Harker Rhodes IV , on the brief), Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Washington, D.C., for Defendant-Appellant.

Judge Sullivan concurs in a separate opinion.


Defendant Ng Lap Seng paid two United Nations ("U.N.") ambassadors—one of whom was for a time also serving as President of the General Assembly—more than $1 million to secure a U.N. commitment to use Ng's Macau real estate development as the site for an annual U.N. conference. Based on this conduct, Ng now...

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