{"id":138654,"date":"2024-12-19T04:49:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138654"},"modified":"2024-12-19T04:49:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:49:53","slug":"new-york-man-pleads-guilty-to-running-chinese-police-station-in-manhattan-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138654","title":{"rendered":"New York man pleads guilty to running Chinese police station in Manhattan | New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">New York<\/a> man has pleaded guilty to running a undeclared police station for the Chinese government in lower Manhattan, more than a year after the US justice department unveiled efforts aimed at disrupting Beijing\u2019s efforts to locate and suppress Chinese American pro-democracy activists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Chen Jinping, 60, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to act as an agent of the government of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">People\u2019s Republic of China<\/a>, in connection with opening and operating an overseas police station for the PRC\u2019s ministry of public security, or MPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Chen, who pleaded guilty for acting as an illegal agent, faces five years in prison when he is sentenced next year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"3df6bc08-cbbf-4972-82c2-dc72b421219c\" data-spacefinder-role=\"richLink\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-1your1i\"><gu-island name=\"RichLinkComponent\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"idle\" props=\"{&quot;richLinkIndex&quot;:3,&quot;element&quot;:{&quot;_type&quot;:&quot;model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement&quot;,&quot;prefix&quot;:&quot;Related: &quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Gilgo Beach serial killings: suspect charged with murder of seventh victim&quot;,&quot;elementId&quot;:&quot;3df6bc08-cbbf-4972-82c2-dc72b421219c&quot;,&quot;role&quot;:&quot;richLink&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/17\/gilgo-serial-killer-new-victim&quot;},&quot;ajaxUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/api.nextgen.guardianapps.co.uk&quot;,&quot;format&quot;:{&quot;design&quot;:0,&quot;display&quot;:0,&quot;theme&quot;:0}}\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">US attorney Breon Peace said Chen was part of a \u201ctransnational repression scheme to establish a secret police station in the middle of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">New York<\/a> City on behalf of the national police force of the People\u2019s Republic of China\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Peace added that US prosecutors had made it a priority \u201cto counteract the malign activities of foreign governments that violate our nation\u2019s sovereignty by targeting local diaspora communities in the United States\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">FBI assistant director in charge James Dennehy said that Chen admitted to his role in establishing the illegal police station that had been opened \u201cto further the nefarious and repressive aims of the PRC in direct violation of American sovereignty\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Jinping and co-defendant \u201cHarry\u201d Lu Jianwang, 62, both US citizens, had been arrested and charged in April last year with illegally acting as foreign agents. Lu has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is awaiting trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">US officials said that while the secret police station did perform some basic services, such as helping Chinese citizens renew their Chinese driving licenses, it also served a more \u201csinister\u201d function, including to help the Chinese government locate a pro-democracy activist of Chinese descent living in California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">The arrests came after the justice department charged more than a half-dozen people in 2020 with working on behalf of the Chinese government in a pressure campaign aimed at coercing a New Jersey man wanted by Beijing into returning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">In September, the US charged Linda Sun, a former aide of New York\u2019s governor, Kathy Hochul, with secretly acting as an agent of the Chinese government. US officials have warned for years of Chinese determination to influence American policy and cultivate relationships with political figures, but also act to pressure US-Chinese nationals domestically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">According to US prosecutors, the two men charged in connection with the illegal police station did so under the direction and control of the MPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">The police station \u2013 which closed in the fall of 2022 \u2013 occupied an entire floor in an office building in Manhattan\u2019s Chinatown. The FBI raided the police station in October 2022, and confiscated Chen\u2019s and Lu\u2019s phones. An analysis of the device later found that communications between the defendants and an MPS official appeared to have been deleted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/18\/new-york-man-pleads-guilty-chinese-police-station-manhattan\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York man has pleaded guilty to running a undeclared police station for the Chinese government in lower Manhattan, more than a year after the US justice department unveiled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=138654\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}