The charges were leveled against Qiming Lin, a former Chinese police officer who later joined China’s Ministry of State Security, which is China’s internal intelligence and secret police agency.

The Chinese Consulate in Manhattan has mobilized community groups to defeat candidates who don’t fall in line with the ...

Qiming Lin, a Chinese former law enforcement official who the feds say tried to undermine the candidacy of Xiong Yan, a former Chinese dissident running for congress.

In New York City, social clubs backed by China undermined a congressional candidate who once challenged the regime on Chinese ...

Prosecutors allege Qiming Lin hired a private detective – “whatever price is fine” – to find compromising information about the candidate or to “manufacture something,” telling the ...

The agent, Qiming Lin, hired a private investigator in the United States to research the Democratic candidate running for Congress in Suffolk County.

Federal prosecutors said a Chinese government agent named Qiming Lin asked a U.S.-based private investigator to help manufacture a political scandal that would undermine the congressional candidate.

Federal prosecutors alleged that Qiming Lin, 59, worked for China's secret police force known as the Ministry of State Security while discussing various plots to physically harm or smear the New ...

The operative, identified as Qiming Lin, is accused in a federal complaint of having contacted a private investigator seeking information about the candidate’s phone number, address and vehicle.