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A former NYPD sergeant is accused of helping Chinese spies embedded in New York and New Jersey track down dissidents on behalf of their government and threaten to harm their families unless they returned to the 'homeland' to go to prison as part of a program dubbed Operation Fox Hunt.
Michael McMahon is on trial in New York City along with Zhu Yong and Zheng Congying as acting as Chinese agents to track down dissidents who had fled and intimidate them into returning.
The trial began today with opening statements from US federal prosecutors.
McMahon was working as a private investigator after retiring from the NYPD when he was contracted by the Chinese government to track down victim Xu Jin and intimidate him, according to prosecutors.
Michael McMahon is on trial in New York City along with Zhu Yong and Zhen Congying as acting as Chinese agents to track down dissidents who had fled and intimidate them into returning. He is shown arriving at court today with his wife
Zhu Yong returns to Brooklyn Federal Court for a trial on Operation Fox Hunt in New York on May 31, 2023
In 2018, Zheng Congying traveled to the man's house in New Jersey and taped a note on his door which read: 'If you are willing to go back to the homeland and spend 10 years in prison, your wife and children will be safe and well.'
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