Black Rhino
Syosset resident Fengyi Zhou, an Asian art dealer, recently pleaded guilty to buying, and then trying to sell, black rhinoceros horns. Along with the horns, Zhou was given an “Endangered Species Bill of Sale,” from which Zhou was made aware that four of the horns were purchased in Texas and unlawfully transported to New York. Immediately after purchasing the rhinoceros horns, Zhou offered to sell and later sold the horns, to an associate who was a Chinese national residing in the People’s Republic of China for more than $130,000.
A federal judge gave Zhou a 2 years prison sentence. Do you think a 2 year sentence is going to prevent this type of activity? I don’t.
Source: New Yorker Gets 2 Years for Trafficking Rhino Horns