Who Is ‘Andy Bang’? A Ritz-Carlton Mystery Gets Its Day in Court
- Case opens in Delaware over $5.8-billion sale of 15 properties
- The Uber driver who began proceedings involving $1 trillion
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When a 26-year-old Uber driver walked into a California deeds office two years ago, it was the real-estate equivalent of a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a tsunami half a world away.
Hired by an elderly Chinese passenger to do more than drive, he began shifting titles to luxury U.S. hotels owned by Beijing-based conglomerate Anbang to shell companies run by one “Andy Bang.” The events that followed — including nearly $1 trillion in claims – will be under scrutiny in a Delaware courthouse starting Monday in one of the most eccentric cases in the state’s history.