Jury convicts man accused of running secret Chinese spy outpost in New York City
Jurors found Lu guilty of acting as an unauthorized Chinese agent and obstruction, while acquitting him on a related conspiracy charge.
- On Wednesday, a Brooklyn federal jury convicted Lu Jianwang, a 64-year-old Bronx resident, of acting as an illegal foreign agent and obstruction of justice, while acquitting him of a federal conspiracy charge.
- In 2022, Lu and co-defendant Chen Jinping allegedly established an unauthorized police station in Manhattan's Chinatown under China's Ministry of Public Security, though the defense contended it was merely a community center.
- During an October 3, 2022, FBI raid on the America ChangLe Association offices, investigators seized computers and cellphones, uncovering deleted WeChat messages and a banner reading "Fuzhou Police Overseas Service Station."
- Lu faces up to 30 years in prison pending sentencing, though defense lawyer John Carman said he plans to appeal while Lu remains free on bail.
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Jury convicts man accused of running secret Chinese spy outpost in New York City
A man accused of running a secret Chinese spy outpost in New York City has been convicted of acting as an illegal foreign agent and destroying text messages from a Chinese government handler.
Chinese-American found guilty in New York ‘overseas police station’ case
A Chinese-American was found guilty of acting as a Chinese agent in a case involving a Chinese police station set up in New York’s Chinatown. The week-long trial of Lu “Harry” Jianwang, 64, was seen as a test of Washington’s ability to counter what prosecutors said were efforts by Beijing to expand its influence and intimidate Chinese communities well beyond its shores. On the three charges Lu faced in the US Eastern district Court of New York, …
Boss of NYC’s ‘secret Chinese police station’ convicted of acting as illegal ‘agent’
"Harry" Lu Jianwang, a Chinatown community leader who the feds say ran a secret Chinese "police station" out of a Manhattan office building, was found guilty of acting as an illegal foreign agent.
FBI Recovers Deleted WeChat Records Showing Fuzhou Police Built New York 'Overseas Police Station'
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn introduced 2,619 recovered WeChat messages on day 2 of Harry Lu's trial, documenting how the Fuzhou Public Security Bureau directly created and supervised the Manhattan outpost. Evidence includes a Huawei cloud system installation and a global network of 65 overseas police service stations.
Prosecutors: Chinese American Curried Favor With CCP Officials Before Opening Police Outpost
A Chinese American man cultivated ties with Chinese officials for years, reporting on Falun Gong practitioners to gain Chinese officials’ trust and confidence before he helped the Chinese regime turn their vision of a police outpost in New York into a reality, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Antoinette Rangel at the close of his trial in Brooklyn federal court on May 12. Lu Jianwang, 64, a community leader and former president of the America ChangL…
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