Mobbed up
At a business level, China’s route in was via LIN, a Taiwanese national who graduated fromYalein 1991, worked in the 1990s in US financial institutionsand then moved to China, where he worked for the politically connected SOE Founder Group in Beijing.52Together with James Bulger<BULGER>, the son of long-term Massachusetts senator William Bulger<William>(and nephew of organized crime boss James Bulger), they founded Thornton Group LLCin 2007, which acted as a government relations consultancy in the US and China