Siegel writes in his blog, "My role, as well as that of two other Bay Area elected officials, was to lend credibility to the venture.",

Siegek doesn't mention the venture is former Mayor Kasperzak's.

Are elected officials allowed to take money to travel to foreign countries to use their elected titles to help former electeds get business deals?

So Mike Kasperzak is on the board of the non-profit, that invited the Mayors to travel to China, to lend credibility to a business venture for a company he is negoatitong to be CEO of?

According to its website, Web Link The Non profit organization mentioned in this article, US Asia Innovation Gateway, has one key sponsor, Huawei, the largest telecom system/ mobile phone / IT service company in China. It’s not surprising that Chinese company intends to set their footprint in Silicon Valley.

Here is the Chinese news reporting this event. Web Link It says “together with city of Mountain View, Dublin, and Menlo Park, HIM Group will invest 30million USD to city of Chengdu to establish an incubator project. HIM Group will provide management consulting service for this project.” It’s interesting if the 3 cities have enough budget to invest foreign project like that.

"Kirsten and I were window-dressing," Siegel said. "All we did was have our pictures taken."

Siegel should have been more savvy about being used for "window-dressing". The optics are pretty bad. My guess is that the flattery of being asked along got the better of him.

Shady af.

Career community organizer from Berkeley turned Mayor making business deals with the Communist Chinese government on behalf of former MV councilman turned investor. Seems legit.

Until the Chinese govt signs a treaty that guarantees (with WTO penalties for violation) to fully protect US "intellectual property in China", we should never accept any Chinese investments in the USA tech companies, let alone in Silicon Valley. Tell China that it is not welcome until it abides to US rule of law in China as well as in the USA. This will never happen, so just "say no" to Chinese investment in Silicon Valley companies with valuable intellectual property rights.

Seems like a job for the FBI. Palm Springs is being investigated by the FBI for some questionable development. Maybe we’re next.

ANY whistleblowers put there?

The organization Kasperzak was the Board member of, who Keith said was going to pay for the trip, US Asia Innovation Gateway, website is no longer up, and there is an error message saying the "usasiaig.org" server IP address can no longer be found.

Why take the website down now?

What is Kasperzak up to now and what did these other clowns get paid to go along?