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(for which documents weren’t publicly available) was voluntarily dismissed in early Dec and it's not clear what it was about or whether that had any connection to Chambers or the wedding fraud charges. Zumba's information filing described him talking to at least 11 people about a conspiracy that ran from Apr 2024 until his arrest. Court records from the bribery case said that Zumba reached out in January to an ex-shipmate from the Carney whose wife was a contract employee at the NAS Jacksonville personnel office that made base identification "smart cards." Zumba asked the shipmate whether his wife could get the cards “for immigration purposes” for Zumba’s Chinese-born in-laws, offering to pay $3,500 for two cards, according to court records. Not realizing his old shipmate would report him to federal investigators, Zumba also told the shipmate that he and his wife could make $35,000 apiece by being part of sham marriages, court records said. Bailey's information also said that when she traveled to New York, another unnamed conspirator told her "to apply for and obtain a military identification card ... that would enable ... [her groom] to access military facilities." 2/n