After nearly 11 months in jail, on April 6, 2017 Tiffany Li was released on $35 Million Dollar bail. $4 million cash was used as well as real estate assets of $62 million dollars (Double the remaining $31 Million in equity required when cash not used) for the balance. The full financial background of her parents is unclear, with much of their wealth alleged to come from Chinese business interests, along with some investments in United States real estate.
While the exact wealth of her family is unclear, it does not appear to have been difficult for them to raise the staggering bail amounts to secure her release, causing understandable outrage for those supporters of Keith Green. Green was the father of Tiffany Li’s two daughters, whose body was found on May 11, 2016. Prosecutors allege he was murdered by Tiffany Green and her two co-defendants, Olivier Adella and Kaveh Bayat after a scheduled meeting with Tiffany Li on April 28, 2016 related to their ongoing and contentious child custody dispute.
Green’s body was found on May 11 and prosecutors allege that cell phone activity prove his presence in Tiffany Li’s house the night of his disappearance. Besides the high bail amount, as a condition of her release, Tiffany Li was required to submit all of her passports and passport cards to law enforcement officials. Li and her mother are naturalized US citizens, but both were born in China. She must not be in possession for any passports for her daughters, stay 100 yards away from any airport and maintain a no contact order related to her children.
These provision’s still have the county prosecutor and many others worried that Tiffany Li remains a significant flight risk back to her native China. The cash and property would stand to be forfeited and foreclosed if she fails to make any of her court appearances (returned if she makes them all), but not knowing the true extent of her family’s wealth, which is assumed to be immense, a forfeiture of the cash and assets may not in fact be enough of a deterrent for flight for a woman who would certainly serve a life sentence if convicted of the murder and gun charges.
At this point prosecutors can only hope that Tiffany Li is in court July 17th for her pre-trial conference as well as September 18th for the start of her scheduled jury trial. Her family’s financial resources still serve as a large unknown. Their ability to lose the $4 million in cash and $62 million in real estate assets remains to be seen, as well as any other resources necessary to secure a reunion and flight for Tiffany Li and her daughters.
At this point, in the case, only time shall tell.
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