Patel and Bongino: Expose the FBI and Gascón’s Konnech–CCP Election Software Cover-Up
Strong evidence shows that corrupt FBI officials and George Gascón deliberately covered up CCP infiltration of U.S. election software—because exposing it would have politically benefited Donald Trump.
Strong evidence shows that corrupt FBI officials and former Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón deliberately concealed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infiltration of U.S. election systems—because exposing it would have politically benefited Donald Trump.
Kash Patel and Dan Bongino now have a rare opportunity: expose how deeply politicized the FBI became, remove CCP-controlled software from America’s elections, and finish an investigation that was already 90% complete before it was sabotaged.
At the center of the scandal is Konnech, a Michigan-based election software company secretly developed and financed by two Chinese firms—Jinhua Yulian Network and Jinhua Hongzheng Technology—under contract with China’s National People’s Congress and in partnership with state-owned giants like Huawei, China Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile, and Lenovo.
Konnech’s flagship product, PollChief, is used to manage poll worker scheduling, equipment deployment, and logistics in major U.S. cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Washington D.C., Fairfax County, and St. Louis.
In early 2021, True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips discovered that Konnech was storing the personally identifiable information (PII) of U.S. election workers, judges, and voters on servers in China. Using open-source tools like Binary Edge, they traced PollChief to Chinese IP addresses—where they found unsecured databases containing names, Social Security numbers, addresses, bank information, voter roll data, polling location schematics, provisional ballot serial numbers, and even passwords for voting machines.
They alerted FBI field offices in Detroit and San Antonio, where agents took the threat seriously and launched a 15-month counterintelligence investigation. But in April 2022—just before the release of Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules, a film on 2020 election fraud featuring True the Vote—FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. intervened and flipped the investigation on its head.
Field agents warned Engelbrecht and Phillips that they, not Konnech, were now considered the threat. Two senior female FBI officials in Washington D.C. were reportedly preparing criminal charges against them rather than Konnech’s CEO Eugene Yu. Engelbrecht was warned she and Phillips might be prosecuted for accessing Konnech’s data on Chinese servers.
The FBI even tipped off Konnech about the investigation—compromising the case—and began circulating internal accusations that Phillips had committed cybercrimes, referring those allegations to the CIA and NSA. Phillips said their goal was to “Roger Stone” him—publicly smear and criminalize him as they had done to Trump allies.
In fear for their safety, a field agent advised Engelbrecht and Phillips to take the “nuclear option”—go public. On August 13, 2022, they did just that at The Pit, a closed-door briefing in Arizona with 200 cybersecurity experts, journalists, and election integrity investigators.
Two weeks later, Konnech sued them. In a stunning series of courtroom actions, Engelbrecht and Phillips were jailed and held in solitary confinement—until the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered their immediate release. The FBI stood by and let it happen. After their release, they published thousands of documents exposing Konnech’s ties to China. Within days, Konnech dropped the lawsuit.
Meanwhile, independent researchers quickly pieced together Eugene Yu’s background. Born in China, Jianwei Yu (于建伟) graduated from Zhejiang University in 1982 and worked for the CCP from 1983 to 1985 as a project manager in the Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone. He moved to the U.S. in 1986 to pursue an MBA at Wake Forest University.
In 2002, Yu founded Konnech. By November 2005, he had launched a Chinese subsidiary—Jinhua Yulian Network—funded and overseen by the CCP. That same year, he was profiled as an “overseas scholar” in a Chinese-language publication by the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) and the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation (AZKEF).
CAST is a formal CCP arm linking Chinese leadership with overseas scientists and technologists. AZKEF, where Yu served on the finance committee, flew U.S. researchers—including Harvard’s Charles Lieber—to Chinese universities. Lieber was later arrested for failing to disclose his ties to China’s Thousand Talents Plan, one of the CCP’s many programs that recruit foreign experts to encourage the illicit transfer of intellectual property.
Konnech’s Chinese ties ran deep. It partnered with Michigan State University’s Confucius Institute, developed software in CCP-run tech parks, and directly served China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).
On January 25, 2006, Yu’s Chinese company was accepted into the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Jinhua Science and Technology Park—a CCP-controlled tech incubator. From that point on, Jinhua Yulian Network and Konnech, were financed, developed, and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
Just a month later, on February 25, 2006, Yu registered the domain yu-lian.cn for Jinhua Yulian Network using his Konnech email address (eyu@konnech.com). Archived versions of the company’s Chinese-language website show Yu praising “Comrade Jiang Zemin” and the Chinese Communist Party, while promoting Konnech’s software products used by the National People’s Congress, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Election Management Solutions Detroit, and U.S. Overseas Voters.
In December 2006, Konnech partnered with the Confucius Institute to build a Chinese communication platform called ChineseBrief.com. Yu registered CNBrief LLC, launched www.cnbrief.com, and displayed a banner in Chinese that translated to: “Chinese Brief – Overseas Chinese Network.”
Confucius Institutes are CCP-funded cultural centers embedded in Western universities that U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers have long warned operate under the direction of the CCP.
On July 18, 2007, an archived Chinese government website showed Yu offering a 5 million yuan (~$700,000 USD) software development contract on behalf of Jinhua Yulian Network, again using his Konnech email and website.
Despite earlier public denials, Konnech quietly admitted in 2022 that it operated a Chinese subsidiary, Jinhua Yulian Network, where Chinese nationals developed and tested its software—though the company claimed it only used “dummy data” and had no CCP affiliation. That narrative continued to collapse as court documents, whistleblower affidavits, and forensic evidence revealed the opposite.
In October 2022, Eugene Yu was arrested by the LA District Attorney’s Office and charged with embezzlement and illegally storing election worker data in China. Deputy DA Eric Neff called it possibly “the largest breach of election data in American history.” Court filings revealed that Konnech’s Chinese developers had “super administrator” access to all client systems.
During Yu’s bond hearing, his attorney revealed that the FBI had contacted Yu weeks before his arrest—not to investigate—but to help “keep Konnech in business” and notify him of a potential “data breach.” This directly corroborated Engelbrecht and Phillips’ story.
Court documents further confirmed their claims, showing detailed communications between True the Vote and Detroit and San Antonio FBI agents Bruce Fowler, Huy Nguyen, Kevin McKenna, and Kristina Spindel. In one of her final messages, Engelbrecht wrote: “We took the nuclear option and went public.”
But just one month after Yu’s arrest, George Gascón dropped the charges. He cited concerns about “bias,” “timing,” and the “pace of the investigation.” Shortly after, Neff was demoted, placed on leave, and eventually reassigned. In April 2024, Neff filed a legal claim against Gascón, alleging political interference. According to Neff, Gascón panicked after Donald Trump publicly praised Yu’s arrest, fearing the case might damage his political image.
Despite four senior prosecutors and Chief Deputy DA Sharon Woo thoroughly vetting the evidence and unanimously approving the charges, Gascón removed Neff as lead prosecutor and replaced him with someone who quickly dismissed the case.
Meanwhile, cybersecurity experts Nate Cain and Harry Haury, both hired by the DA’s office, submitted sworn declarations confirming:
U.S. election data was stored on Chinese servers
PII of judges, poll workers, and voters was exposed
Chinese nationals had full administrative access
Metadata showed Eugene Yu working on software for the CCP’s National People’s Congress
Cain and Haury followed federal evidentiary standards, recording screen captures, logging chain-of-custody records, and preserving the digital forensics. They still hold this evidence today, should Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, or congressional investigators choose to investigate.
Cain, a cleared federal contractor, also filed a national security report with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), warning of a foreign intelligence breach involving Konnech and the Chinese government. The DCSA reviewed and verified the report, then forwarded it to the FBI—which declined to investigate.
Cain later revealed that when a police superintendent in a major U.S. county shared the evidence with the FBI, the Bureau responded: they were “not interested” in investigating. Los Angeles County also failed to notify other jurisdictions whose election data had been compromised.
Two former Konnech employees came forward:
Grant Bradley, who oversaw 12 employees in Michigan, signed affidavits confirming U.S. election data was routinely sent to Chinese nationals. He was fired after refusing to lie to clients.
Peter McCallister, former General Manager of Konnech Australia, testified that all Konnech software was developed in China by Eugene Yu’s brother and nephew—Lin Yu and Jun Yu—along with a team of 100 Chinese software engineers.
McCallister further testified that Konnech’s Chinese subsidiary, Jinhua Hongzheng Technology, was the primary software supplier to the CCP. He said Yu sold the same election software used by China’s NPC and CPPCC to the Australian government.
Jinhua Hongzheng Technology—built on the foundation of Jinhua Yulian Network—serves over 430 CCP government clients across 20 provinces. It develops election, administrative, and conference software for China’s National People’s Congress and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and partners with state-owned firms like Huawei, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, and Lenovo—all designated national security threats by the U.S. government.
An archived webpage from Jinhua Hongzheng Technology titled “US and Chinese Patents” showcases patents from Jinhua Yulian Network and a a U.S. patent issued to Konnech CEO Eugene Yu.
A 2016 archived Chinese social media post from the company states that Jinhua Hongzheng Technology was formerly “Jinhua Yulian Network Technology Co., Ltd. (Konnech, Ltd), established in November 2005.” The same post boasts the company provides election software to more than 20 government agencies in North America, displaying Chinese-translated seals from Washington, D.C.; Loudoun County, VA; Detroit, MI; St. Louis, MO; Prince William County, VA; St. Charles County, MO; Hillsborough County, FL; Edmonton, Alberta; Regina, Saskatchewan; and the State of Montana.
In 2016, Konnech’s U.S. website displayed these same government seals—but notably scrubbed all references to China and the CCP.
On July 31, 2015, Eugene Yu registered the domain hongzhengtech.cn for Jinhua Hongzheng Technology using his official Konnech email address: admin@konnech.com.
Despite overwhelming evidence—from court records, archived websites, whistleblower affidavits, domain registrations, patent transfers, and forensic reports—federal officials and George Gascón shut down the investigation, targeted the whistleblowers, and protected a company with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
This may be the most serious breach of election infrastructure in American history. And the only reason it was buried? Because the evidence came from Trump-aligned election integrity advocates—and confirming it would have vindicated them.
It’s time for Kash Patel and Dan Bongino to bring this investigation into the light. The trail is clear. The evidence is damning. The threat is real. The American people deserve to know the full extent of the CCP’s penetration into our election systems—and who in our own government helped cover it up.
If this report shocked you, don’t let it end here. Share it with Trump administration allies—especially Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, and Pam Bondi—who have the platform and power to expose this cover-up. Post it. Tag them directly. Demand accountability.
The evidence is undeniable. The danger is clear. The American people have a right to know who gave CCP-linked operatives access to our election infrastructure—and who worked to hide the truth.
While many of us read this in an article about 3 -4 years ago, it is heartening to see that it is finally becoming main stream. It is DIS heartening, however is that the deep state is so deep, so wide and just unimaginably destructive to everything that is positive for Americans.
Public hangings for this kind of treasonous misuse of government positions is LONG OVERDUE.