Sex, Gambling, Corruption, and 16 Young Lovers … In China?

A gangland matron has been convicted of multiple charges today in Beijing, ending a long reign of a gang from “The Black Society”. Notorious for her iron hand the purported “godmother”, 46-year-old Xie Caiping was sentenced to 18 years of prison and fines estimated at $150,000.

Government claims included a lavish lifestyle including multiple villas, expensive clothes, 16 different on-call lovers and a comfortable Mercedes Benz as her trinkets.

With a populace of more than 30 million people, Chinese authorities have started a crackdown of illegal activities, including drugs, prostitution, witness tampering, gambling and activity against the normal order.

Caiping would not take it quietly. She spewed the court with profanity during her opportunity to testify.

She had reportedly been protected from oversight because of a brother-in-law severed in a high-level police position. He is now under investigation.

Caiping was escorted away from the courtroom wearing an orange vest over a black tee shirt and baby blue prison trousers.

According to the official government report, Caiping had made more than $293,000 in illegal earnings during the last five years by operating more than 10 gambling joints.

Far from the niceities she had become accustomed.