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Man convicted of running secret Chinese police station in NYC - NBC New ...
A man accused of running a secret Chinese spy outpost from a nondescript office building in Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood was convicted Wednesday of acting as an illegal foreign agent. Lu Jianwang, 64, was also convicted of obstructing justice by deleting text messages that U.S. prosecutors said included orders from Beijing to silence, harass and intimidate pro-democracy dissidents. He was acquitted on a related conspiracy charge. The weeklong trial in Brooklyn federal court pitted U.S. concerns about China's crackdown on dissidents against the defense’s contention that prosecutors twisted a well-meaning Chinese American community leader’s bureaucratic misstep to put him in prison. “A police station operating in New York City at the direction of the Chinese government has been exposed, its sinister purpose disrupted, and its founder held accountable for blatantly disregarding the law and our country’s sovereignty,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said. After the verdict, Lu spoke to supporters in his native Fujianese dialect but declined to answer questions from reporters. His lawyer, John Carman, said they would appeal. Carman said federal prosecutors passed off a mundane paperwork case as an international spy thriller. The foreign agent conviction relates to Lu's failure to inform the U.S. government about his work on behalf of China, which his defense team contends was limited only to helping members of the Chinese diaspora renew their Chinese driver’s licenses. “This is not espionage. This is not spying. This is not intelligence gathering," Carman said as he stood alongside Lu outside the courthouse. “He wasn’t charged with any of that.” The subtext of the prosecution case, Carman said, was that Lu “associated with a lot of Chinese people." “Is that window dressing or dressing up a paperwork case? A hundred percent,” Carman said. Lu, a U.S. citizen for decades who also goes by the name Harry Lu, remains free on bail while he awaits sentencing, which has not been scheduled. He faces up to 10 years in prison for acting as an illegal foreign agent and up to 20 years in prison for obstruction of justice. According to prosecutors, Lu and co-defendant Chen Jinping established the Chinatown outpost in 2022 after Lu attended a ceremony in his native Fujian province where China’s Ministry of Public Security announced it was opening 30 such secret police stations around the world. China’s communist government uses the outposts to monitor people ...
Man Convicted of Running Illegal Police Station Tied to China's ...
A man accused of running a secret police station in Manhattan at the direction of the Chinese government, using it to report to Beijing on political dissidents, was convicted of illegally working ...
New York man found guilty in Chinese 'secret police station' case
NEW YORK - A New York man was found guilty on May 13 of acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government after a trial over federal prosecutors' allegations that he operated a "secret ...
New York Man Convicted After Opening Chinese Police Station
A federal jury convicted a U.S. citizen on Wednesday of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for his part in establishing a police station in New York on behalf of Chinese authorities, the ...
