Prosecutors Seek 3-Year Sentence for Chinese Man Who Operated Secret Police Station in NYC

The defendant, Chen Jinping, is scheduled to be sentenced on May 30.

People at a news conference and rally in front of the America ChangLe Association, a now-closed secret Chinese police station, highlighting Beijing's transnational repression, in New York City on Feb. 25, 2023. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times

U.S. prosecutors are seeking a three-year prison sentence for a Chinese American citizen accused of operating a secret police station for Beijing in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

Chen Jinping, who pleaded guilty in December 2024 to conspiring to act as an illegal agent, is scheduled to be sentenced in Brooklyn Federal Court before District Judge Nina Morrison of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York on May 30. Chen and a co-defendant, Lu Jianwang, were arrested in April 2023.