Williamsburg’s designer-clad dine-and-dasher may very well be deported again to her native Taiwan, The Publish has realized.
34-year-old wannabe influencer Pei Chung has been in jail since Friday over theft-of-service prices following her bill-skipping spree, hitting not less than 11 high-end eating places round Brooklyn since October.
She has additionally been slapped with an immigration warrant, in accordance with the Division of Corrections web site. A legislation enforcement supply mentioned Chung has overstayed her pupil visa.
Which means it’s probably Chung must face a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement listening to after she seems in court docket Wednesday, immigration lawyer Gadi Zohar informed The Publish.
“It may set off her being taken away if she had a visa that expired,” Zohar alleged to The Publish as to what may occur subsequent to Chung.
“The legal prices are most likely what triggered the [Immigration] warrant. [Immigration officers will] probably choose her up from Rikers and take her to the immigration detention middle,” he added.
Chung’s immigration standing and whether or not she is permitted to work within the US usually are not publicly recognized.
The fake influencer — principally seen carrying designer footwear, carrying Louis Vuitton purses and Hermes belts on her Instagram — got here to the US in 2019 as a pupil on a scholarship to attend Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute till 2021. It isn’t believed she has another members of the family within the US.
Based on her Linkedin web page, her final job was in 2023, when she claims she labored as a guide for Chase financial institution as a Senior Consumer Expertise Designer for eight months.
Chung — who has been snapping photographs of carbonara, salmon and steak throughout Williamsburg for her weblog, then stiffing eateries — additionally says she labored as a person expertise (UX) designer and person interface designer between December 2021 and September 2022 on her Linkedin.
Across the time that job completed is when Chung stopped paying hire on her $3,350-a-month studio house in a luxurious Williamsburg constructing owned by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Her lease within the constructing expired in August 2024 and he or she is going through eviction subsequent month after falling $40,000 behind in hire, in accordance with court docket papers.
A choose has ordered Chung to go away the constructing by December 1, though she very may nonetheless be in custody at the moment.
Chung, who refers to herself on Instagram as “99 lb, no cosmetic surgery,” was arrested for the seventh time final Friday.
Her bail has been set at $4,500 money, however she was nonetheless listed as in custody as of Tuesday afternoon.
“Even when she raises bail, immigration wont let her go,” Zohar warned to The Publish.
She was despatched to Rikers after being arrested whereas having fun with her newest fraudulent feast at Mole Mexican Bar and Grill on Kent avenue in Williamsburg. She had ordered $149 in meals then refused to pay, in accordance with cops.
“I don’t assume entitlement is a robust sufficient phrase,” John Winterman, the fed-up proprietor of Francie, a restaurant she has struck twice, informed The Publish Monday after studying Chung had been jailed.
Chung’s arrest at Mole follows a string of different extravagant meal scams, together with at Gap within the Wall on Bedford Ave. on Nov. 19; and 12 Chairs on Nov. 17, the place she photographed a mezze unfold.
The Publish additionally reported Chung even allegedly provided intercourse for a free meal at Peter Luger steakhouse on Oct. 17.
And whereas Chung has been savoring dishes like foie gras and carbonara pasta, her eating behind bars will probably be from a extra lackluster menu — together with, “Pizza Pockets,” with sides of “steamed white cabbage, cucumber salad and chilled peaches,” per one among Rikers’ newest menus.
