WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—U.S. District Judge Nelson S. Roman on Sept. 26 sentenced one of the conspirators who helped advance Beijing’s transnational repression campaign in the United States to 16 months in prison.
Lin Feng, a 44-year-old Green Card holder based in California, pleaded guilty in July to acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese communist regime and bribing an IRS agent in connection with a plot to target Falun Gong practitioners based in the United States.
Lin had worked alongside U.S. citizen John Chen, 70, under the direction of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official to revoke the nonprofit status of New York-based Shen Yun Performing Arts. The two had attempted to bribe the IRS with $50,000 to achieve the goal….