Three men were convicted in Brooklyn federal court on June 20 for stalking a family in New Jersey and pressuring them to return to China on behalf of China’s communist regime.
The case is related to the regime’s “Operation Fox Hunt,” an effort to coerce expatriates and dissidents to return to China for trial.
Retired New York Police Department sergeant turned private investigator Michael McMahon and two Chinese citizens holding U.S. permanent residency—Zheng Congying and Zhu Yong—were accused of harassing, threatening, intimidating, and monitoring Xu Jin, a former Chinese official living in the suburbs of New Jersey, and his wife, for three years from 2016 to 2019, according to a Justice Department press release. The operation was directed and funded by Beijing….