From the way the team of Chinese bounty hunters pursued one of their targets to New Jersey, you would think he killed the nephew of the Emperor or something. An American private investigator was tricked into leading the “Operation Fox Hunt” psy-op team right to the door of their errant Communist Party public official. The man is officially accused of accepting bribes. He’s more likely a whistleblower or dissident who had been hiding carefully in the shadows to preserve the safety of his family.
Chinese kidnap squad
The American private investigator insists he was framed but the palace says Joe Biden isn’t going to intervene on his behalf. The retired New York City Police Department detective sergeant swears up and down he thought he was working for a construction company.
He was tricked by the Chinese into tracking down a man and his daughter, identified only as John Doe One and Jane Doe Two. Him and six other people had already been charged but they were the small fish. Half them worked for the detective. On Thursday July 22, the real criminals were charged, even though they’re still running loose.
A grand total of nine people, including 53-year-old Michael McMahon, the private investigator from Mahwah, New Jersey, have now been charged in connection with the Chinese “Operation Fox Hunt,” designed to “repatriate the target from the United States,” whether he wanted to go or not. McMahon didn’t have a clue that he had been working for the People’s Republic of China.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn assures America that Defendant Tu Lan “was employed as a prosecutor with the Hanyang People’s Procuratorate” when he “traveled to the United States, directed the harassment campaign and ordered a co-conspirator to destroy evidence to obstruct the criminal investigation.” Lan and his partner in crime Zhai Yongqiang were added on Thursday to the seven names the police already had.
As explained by McMahon’s lawyer, Lawrence Lustberg, “Mike was himself a victim of the Chinese, who deceived and duped him and never told him that he was working for them.” McMahon was hired around September 2016 by government official Hu Ji, who said he was with a construction company.
“Rather than accusing him, our government should have protected him.” Acting U.S. Attorney Jacquelyn Kasulis has no sympathy at all. “Unregistered, roving agents of a foreign power are not permitted to engage in secret surveillance of U.S. residents on American soil, and their illegal conduct will be met with the full force of U.S. law.” Even if you were tricked into it.
Not murderers or drug lords
Operation Fox Hunt and it’s sister covert program Operation Sky Net began in 2014 to haul in trouble makers wherever they may be hiding. “The targets are not murderers or drug lords, but Chinese public officials and businesspeople.” Most are accused, justifiably or not, “of financial crimes.” Most are “dissidents, whistleblowers or relatively minor figures swept up in provincial conflicts.” They printed up some business cards with the name of a construction company on them and went to pay McMahon a visit. Quietly and without fuss they hired the retired NYPD officer to skip trace someone for them.
In September 2018, the Chinese “defendants drove to the Does’ New Jersey residence and ‘pounded on the front door,’ The two defendants attempted to force open the door to the residence, then left a note at the residence that stated ‘If you are willing to go back to the mainland and spend 10 years in prison, your wife and children will be all right. That’s the end of this matter!'”
McMahon had no idea that in 2012 and 2014, Beijing reported his targets to “the international police agency Interpol to issue so-called red notices.” The man was accused of “embezzlement, abuse of power and accepting bribes. Those charges carry a maximum possible sentence of death under Chinese law.”
His adult daughter was the other target of the skip trace investigation. When he dug up “information that included Jane Doe’s international travel details, and her daughter’s date of birth, Social Security number and banking information,” his work was done. The Psychological Warfare experts took it from there.
“After multiple months of investigative work” by McMahon, “the co-conspirators planned a specific rendition operation to stalk and repatriate John Doe #1 through psychological coercion,” the charging documents read. As outlined by prosecutors, “in April 2017, at the direction of Lan and Li, the elderly father of John Doe #1 was transported from China to the United States.”
Just like that scene in the Godfather, they brought him along “to convey a threat to John Doe #1 that his family in the PRC would be harmed.” The only problem was that the Chinese couldn’t find the target to threaten him until the detective hit paydirt.
