Overview

• Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang were released on $500,000 bail each after May arrests and authorities plan to present formal child endangerment and surrogacy-fraud charges within weeks.
• The FBI has joined Arcadia Police Department detectives in probing a suspected mass-surrogacy operation linked to the couple’s firm, Mark Surrogacy Investment LLC.
• All 21 children, including 17 under age three, have been placed under the care of the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.
• Investigators issued an arrest warrant for nanny Chunmei Li after security footage showed severe physical and verbal abuse of a two-month-old infant.
• Surrogate mothers in multiple states say they were misled into carrying children for the couple under false claims about their fertility history and family size.