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据美联社、《纽约时报》等媒体报道，当地时间5月9日，中国籍亿万富豪覃辉被美国驱逐出境。    Exxon Mobil is buying Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion, its largest buyout since acquiring Mobil two decades ago, creating a colossal fracking operator in West Texas. Including debt, Exxon is committing about $64.5 billion to the acquisition, leaving no doubt of the Texas energy company's commitment to fossil fuels as energy prices surge. Pioneer shareholders will receive 2.32 shares of Exxon for each Pioneer share they own.“I think fossil fuels, as the world looks to transition and find lower sources of affordable energy with lower emissions, fossil fuels oil and gas are going to continue to play a role over time,” Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods said during an interview with CNBC. “ That may diminish with time. The rate of that is, I think, not very clear at this stage. But it will be around for a long time.” Woods explained that Exxon and Pioneer will be able to use their combined capabilities to drive down emissions and produce lower carbon intensity oil and gas. Exxon purchased XTO Energy in 2009 for approximately $36 billion. In the late 1990s, the merger between Exxon and Mobil was valued around $80 billion.The deal with Pioneer Natural vastly expands Exxon's presence in the Permian basin, a massive oilfield that straddles the border between Texas and New Mexico. Drilling the Permian accounted for 18% of all U.S. natural gas production last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.Pioneer's more than 850,000 net acres in the Midland Basin will be combined with Exxon’s 570,000 net acres in the Delaware and Midland Basin, nearly contiguous fields that will allow the combined company to trim costs. That is a big driver of the deal. Natural gas rigs in operation have declined over 26% in the U.S. since the start of the year, according to government data, largely due to the rising costs for drilling materials and labor over the past two years. “Their tier-one acreage is highly contiguous, allowing for greater opportunities to deploy our technologies, delivering operating and capital efficiency as well as significantly increasing production,” Woods said of Pioneer in a prepared statement. The company will have an estimated 16 billion barrels of oil equivalent in the Permian.Once the deal closes, Exxon Permian production volume will more than double to 1.3 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, based on 2023 volumes. It's expected to climb to about 2 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2027. “The combination of ExxonMobil and Pioneer creates a diversified energy company with the largest footprint of high-return wells in the Permian Basin,” Pioneer CEO Scott Sheffield said in a prepared statement. Citi's Alastair Syme wrote that the transaction could provide multiple benefits to Exxon. “Across the industry, the logic of consolidation in the highly fragmented Permian shale remains compelling with significant gains to be achieved from economies of scale by minimizing facilities spend, optimizing drilling and reducing" general spending, Syme wrote. Exxon is flush with cash. The company posted unprecedented profits last year of $55.7 billion, breezing past its previous record of $45.22 billion in 2008 when oil prices hit record highs.Exxon Mobil Corp. has been using some of that cash on acquisitions. In July the company announced that it was buying pipeline operator Denbury in an all-stock deal valued at $4.9 billion.Pioneer Natural has been making similar maneuvers. In 2020 the company said it was buying Parsley Energy in an all-stock deal valued at approximately $4.5 billion. It then purchased DoublePoint Energy in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $6.4 billion in 2021.The boards of both companies have approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the first half of next year. It still needs approval from Pioneer shareholders. Shares of Exxon fell more than 4% in Wednesday morning trading.。

B | 他因以他人名义参与政治捐献、移民欺诈和伪造身份文件等罪名，达成认罪协议被判刑6个月，同意刑满释放后放弃绿卡，被美国驱逐出境。

2023年10月2日，覃辉在美国曼哈顿广场酒店的一间公寓里被捕，罪名是“使用虚假身份证件”。他随后被指控以他人名义参与政治捐献、移民欺诈和伪造身份文件等罪名。

法庭文件显示，从2021年12月至2022年12月，覃辉以他人的名义向纽约市官员和国会候选人捐款1.6万美元，以骗取绿卡和佛罗里达州驾照。覃辉同意向那些被借用名义的人偿还他们支付的政治献金。

覃辉还承认， 2019年用不实资料申请美国永久居留权，之后还谎称自己从未用过别名，另于居住纽约期间以诈欺方式取得佛罗里达州驾照。2019年4月，他在向美国提交的LPR（绿卡）身份申请中，谎称从未使用过其他名字。

C | 实际上，他使用过化名“李木林”。

比如，2017年9月，覃辉就以李木林的名义，从中国向美国银行账户转账超过500万美元，其中一部分用于购买曼哈顿豪华公寓。

2023年9月，覃辉就曾被美国警方逮捕过一次，那次的理由是他试图袭击自己的前妻刘多。检察官透露，当时覃辉试图用斧头砸开一扇锁着的门。

D | 而在此几个月前，他还曾在另一起袭击中试图勒死前妻。

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根据覃辉向曼哈顿高等法院提起的针对刘多的诉状显示，虽覃辉与刘多2021年在中国离婚，但两人到美国后依然住在一起，政治献金也是以刘多名义捐出。

根据公开资料，刘多在中国北京出生和长大，是2006年“中国小姐”和2008年中国模特大赛第一名，2010年通过“特殊人才计划”移民美国，在2017年成为美国公民。她曾被纽约市长办公室任命为“亚裔事务顾问委员会”成员。

2024年3月18日，覃辉在纽约东区联邦地区法院认罪。他被指控以他人名义参与政治捐献、移民欺诈和伪造身份文件等罪名。如不认罪，覃辉将面临最高27年的监禁，认罪后，刑期将下调为6个月，已服刑时间计入刑期。

覃辉承认从2021年纽约市长选举开始就利用自己的财产招募一些人，并出钱让他们代他捐出政治献金，但选举阵营并不知情。美媒报道称，他捐款的对象其中一人是纽约市长亚当斯，不过检察官说，所有竞选团队都不知道这些捐款是非法的。

作为与检察官达成的协议的一部分，覃辉在本案中同意在服刑期满后离开美国，放弃美国绿卡，并被驱逐到美国以外的国家。

当时，覃辉的律师亨利·马祖里克表示：“我的当事人对案件得到解决感到高兴，他很高兴能了结此案，并期待着在美国以外的地方重新开始他的商业生涯。”

5月9日，在纽约长岛的法庭上，服刑期满的覃辉通过中文翻译向法官做了简短的发言，他流着泪为自己的行为道歉，称因为语言障碍，不太懂美国法律犯错。

覃辉眼含泪水表示，担心自己无法再见到生活在美国的3个孩子，孩子将来的毕业典礼等重要时刻他都无法参加，只盼未来与孩子们仍能保持联系。

覃辉的律师马祖里克告诉法官：“我的客户是中国一名白手起家的商人，他的3000多家连锁影院因新冠疫情而毁于一旦。他的公司倒闭了，他被人起诉，他的妻子离开了他。他在布鲁克林臭名昭著的拘留中心服刑，已经为自己的错误付出了代价。”

在法庭上，法官同意检方的建议，在服刑期满后将其释放，然后被驱逐出境。覃辉被安排在几小时后飞往一个未指明的国家。他被美国联邦特工护送至机场，立即被永久驱逐出境。

在他提出安全考虑后，应他的要求，他去往哪个国家被保密。他曾要求不要被送往中国，他在中国欠了三家公司4.5亿美元的债务。

覃辉的律师马祖里克9日表示，覃辉已搭机离美，但他不愿指明目的地，仅说覃辉想要重建自己的生活。

现年56岁的覃辉曾以18亿美元的身家入围《福布斯》富豪榜。他曾是香港娱乐公司“星美文化”的董事长，该公司已解散。

覃辉更被中国网民熟悉的另一个身份是北京夜总会“天上人间”的老板。

F | 1995年，覃辉借款180万美元，买下了一家夜总会，并改名为“天上人间”，并将其发展成北京最知名的夜总会，内部极致奢华。2005年，已成烫手山芋的“天上人间”被覃辉转手卖掉。

2005年4月26日，覃辉因涉嫌行贿被批捕，在缴纳保证金后获准取保候审，从此淡出公众视野。据称，官司缠身的他从那以后远走美国。

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2010年5月，因涉及有偿陪侍，“天上人间”和其他3家顶级娱乐场所被勒令停业整顿6个月，之后一直没有人再接手经营。