A former New York Police Department spy was sentenced to 18 months in jail after being convicted of harassing and staring at a person from the Chinese state.
57 -year -old Michael McMahon targeted a New Jersey resident and his family, associated Press Informed
He stalk and operate on behalf of China without informing the US government. The report said that two Congress members left the judge from the time of jail.
According to the public affairs office, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) government was further fined $ 11,000 for interstate chase and conspiracy.
He was one of the 10 defendants in the federal trial who conducted the first test based on American allegations of 10 -year “Operation Fox Hunt” operation of China.
In 2023, McMahon was found guilty of supporting an international pressure campaign to leave the United States and explain an officer of a former Chinese city to return to his native country.
The strategies included threatening real -world notes at man’s doorstep in New Jersey and Facebook Communications.
Following a three-week prosecution, a federal jury found McMahon and co-operatives guilty in Brooklyn’s 29, 29, and Zhu Yong, 68, East Elmharst, New York 68, New York.
Yong and Zheng were sentenced to 24 months and 16 months in jail in January 2025 respectively.
US District Judge Pamela Chen said that McMahon supported the transnational repression “who hurts the target person, his family and the nation”.
“This type of crime is actually a threat to the national security of our country,” said Ms. Chen.
The “transnational repression” refers to the actions by countries such as China and Iran that control or threaten the immigrants in the rejection of their home governments.
During the sentence of one hour by MCMAHON, McMahon claimed that he was “used unknowingly” by Chinese agents in 2016, after accepting what he believed in what he believed as a standard private investigator contract. NY Times,
“I never thought that I was working for China for a minute, staring at anyone. Still I have lost everything,” he claimed, called it a “bad dream”.
McMahon was not found guilty of conspiring to be a Chinese spy. He further said that he was innocent in all the allegations.
Republican American representative Mike Loller and Pete Sessions supported McMahon. In a letter from June 2024, which was part of a court filing, he expressed his confidence that McMahon was innocent.