Exclusive | US prosecutor of Huawei’s CFO counts 1MDB fugitive Jho Low and Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ among his high-profile cases
- New US Attorney Richard Donoghue handling high-profile cases beyond Huawei’s CFO Sabrina Meng Wanzhou
The United States prosecutor who is seeking to extradite Huawei Technologies Chief Financial Officer Sabrina Meng Wanzhou is the same man pursuing criminal charges against both fugitive financier Jho Low in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal and Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the notorious Mexican drug kingpin known as “El Chapo.”
Richard P. Donoghue was named US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in January, returning to the office where he cut his teeth prosecuting members of the MS-13 street gang, white collar criminals and corrupt politicians.
Since coming back, he has inherited several criminal and civil cases that have international implications.
Donoghue’s office is seeking the extradition of Meng, the daughter of Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei, to the US on fraud charges related to alleged breaches of US and EU sanctions on Iran, in a case that has enraged China and further strained relations between the world’s two biggest economies. A Canadian court ordered her release on bail on Wednesday.
In October, Donoghue’s office accused a Long Island man of threatening to kill two US senators over their support for Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the US Supreme Court.