Retired NYPD Sergeant Convicted of Acting as a Chinese Agent

A retired New York Police Department sergeant is one of three defendants convicted of acting and conspiring to act in the United States as illegal agents of the People’s Republic of China, officials said Tuesday.

Defendants Michael McMahon, Zhu Yong and Zheng Congying were found guilty by a federal jury in Brooklyn on June 20. All three men faced multiple counts in a superseding indictment that alleged they were working for the People’s Republic of China to harass, stalk and coerce certain United States residents to return to China as part of a “global and extralegal repatriation effort known as ‘Operation Fox Hunt,'” according to a news release by the Eastern District of New York. McMahon and Yong were knowingly working with officials from the People’s Republic of China, officials said.

McMahon, 55, the former sergeant, was convicted of acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China, conspiracy to commit interstate stalking and interstate stalking. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

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