A Chinese national was sentenced to 16 months in prison on Jan. 22 for being involved in a Beijing-directed campaign trying to pressure a former Chinese official living in New Jersey to return to China.
Zheng Congying, a lawful permanent U.S. resident, was one of three individuals indicted by a federal court jury in Brooklyn in June 2023 for their various roles in the pressure campaign targeting Xu Jin and his family.
Zheng’s codefendant, Zhu Yong, a Chinese retiree, was sentenced to two years in prison on Jan. 15. Another codefendant, Michael McMahon, a retired New York Police Department sergeant-turned-private investigator, is scheduled to be sentenced later this winter….