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Chinese-American found guilty in New York ‘secret police station’ case

South China Morning Post · · 146 words · By Mark Magnier
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“Lu ‘Harry’ Jianwang convicted of acting as an unauthorised Chinese agent and obstruction of justice”
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Multiple independent sources (The New York Times, DOJ, and other web search results) confirm that Lu Jianwang (Harry Lu) was convicted of acting as an unregistered agent of China and obstruction of justice.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jianwang, a New York resident also known as Harry Lu, faces up to 30 years in prison, prosecutors said. His co-defendant Chen Jinping pleaded guilty in December 2024 to conspiring to act as an agent o…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy72yy7z1dyo
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web search NEUTRAL — Lu Jianwang was found guilty by a jury in federal court of acting as a foreign agent while he ran an illegal police station tied to the Chinese government.Credit...Jefferson Siegel for The New York Ti…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/nyregion/china-covert-pol…
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web search NEUTRAL — Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Lu Jianwang, 64, should have alerted the US attorney general that he was a Chinese agent when he helped open the so-called police station in 2022. They also said h…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/new-york-man…
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“On the three charges Lu faced in the US Eastern District Court of New York, he was found guilty of acting as an unauthorised agent of China and guilty on obstruction of justice but not guilty on conspiracy to act as a foreign agent.”
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The DOJ source explicitly states he was convicted of two counts of a superseding indictment. Another source lists the three charges he faced (conspiracy, acting as an agent, and obstruction) and the DOJ confirms the conviction on two counts, supporting the claim that he was found guilty of acting as an agent and obstruction, but not the conspiracy charge.
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web search NEUTRAL — BROOKLYN, NY - Today in federal court in Brooklyn, Bronx resident Lu Jianwang, a U.S. citizen also known as "Harry Lu," was convicted by a jury of two counts of a superseding indictment charging him w…
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/bronx-man-convicted-ope…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lu Jianwang was found guilty by a jury in federal court of acting as a foreign agent while he ran an illegal police station tied to the Chinese government.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/nyregion/china-covert-pol…
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web search NEUTRAL — He had pleaded not guilty to the three felony charges he faced: conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent, acting as an unregistered agent of China and obstruction of justice.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/new-york-man…
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“Lu was accused of using the fourth floor America Changle Association office, located in a building in Manhattan’s Chinatown, to establish an overseas Chinese police station”
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The Guardian explicitly identifies the former office of the America Changle Association in New York's Chinatown as a Chinese secret police station described by US authorities. Other search results link Lu's conviction to the operation of this specific illegal police station.
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web search NEUTRAL — LU (biscuits) ... Lefèvre-Utile, better known worldwide by the initials LU, was a French manufacturer brand of biscuits, emblematic of the city of Nantes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LU_(biscuits)
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web search NEUTRAL — The myLU portal provides a personalized, user-friendly experience on both desktop and mobile platforms. It organizes content so that you can access personalized updates and LU campus news all...
https://mylu.liberty.edu/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 30, 2025 · The memory of Lu Buechel of Fort Thomas, Kentucky, born in Dayton, Ohio, who passed away on July 23, 2025 at the age of 95, will forever remain in the hearts of those touched by this pr…
https://www.echovita.com/us/obituaries/ky/fort-thomas/lu-bue…
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“The association is a prominent Fujianese-American community group.”
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Wikipedia confirms that people from the Changle district are Fuzhounese/Fujianese Americans. InfluenceWatch identifies the America Changle Association as an organization (founded in 1998), and The Guardian refers to it as a 'social gathering place' in the context of the community, corroborating its status as a Fujianese-American community group.
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web search NEUTRAL — Fuzhounese Americans, also known as Hokchew Americans or Fuzhou Americans or imprecisely Fujianese, are Chinese American people of Fuzhou descent, in particular from the Changle district.Americans of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzhounese_Americans
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web search NEUTRAL — The America Changle Association was founded in 1998. 10 In 2017, it was granted tax-exempt status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). 11 In 2022, its tax-exempt status was automatically revoked b…
https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/america-changle-as…
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web search NEUTRAL — Former office of the America ChangLe Association, described by US authorities as a Chinese secret police station masquerading as a social gathering place, in New York’s Chinatown. Photograph: John Nac…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/20/explainer-chin…
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