United States v. Herng Sing Wang
Opinion
Opinion
Noonan, J.
Herng Sing Wang appeals his conviction of conspiracy to bring aliens unlawfully into the United States in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371 and 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (a)(1)(A) and of his conviction of attempting to bring aliens into the United States in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1324 (a)(1)(A) and 18 U.S.C. § 2 . We affirm his convictions.
FACTS
The government established by evidence the following facts:
On September 7, 1992, Wang and two of his eodefendants, Loi Fhuoe Chau and Tham Hnu Vo, were present in the harbor at Moss Landing, California. They boarded the New Star, a 65 foot fishing boat, opened up the boat and fired up the motors. Early on the morning of September 8 the New Star put out to sea. Wang was inside its lighted main cabin.
The New Star made a rendezvous at sea ■with a Taiwanese trawler. Aboard the trawler were Wang’s codefendants Qi Li and Chang Ching Chiang and 158 Chinese, aliens to the United States and would-be emigrants from China. These unfortunate persons had made arrangements with unindicted men in China to be taken from China to the United States for approximately $30,000 per person, to be paid in part prior to the departure and in part on arrival in the United…