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Family tied to suspected Chinese spy Christine Fang gave $4.4 million to Newsom, other California politicians

The family’s donations and political access are drawing scrutiny as FBI files and reporting link members to Christine Fang and China’s United Front.

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C.C. Yin's family has donated nearly $3 million to state-level California political causes and an additional $1,455,027 to federal campaigns.

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According to records from the Federal Elections Commission and the California State Secretariat, the Yin family injected nearly $3 million into state political causes and another 1.4 million into federal campaigns.

A CBS investigation found that the Yin family, a Chinese-American family in California, has donated more than $4.4 million to U.S. politics over the years, involving political figures such as Newson and Kamala Harris. The investigation also traced the Yin brothers' interactions with Fang Fang, U.S. politicians, and officials in the Chinese government and the United Front system.

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CBS News broke the news in New York, United States on Monday, September 21, 2026.
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