DOJ Twists the China Narrative Against Retired Police Detective Michael McMahon
Commentary
China has been on an intelligence rampage inside of America since the days of the Obama Administration, apart from the first Trump term. The Obama/Biden Team dismissed the Chinese threat, ignored the Biden Family receipt of foreign bribes tracing to China, and then dissolved the Chinese focused Initiative. In 2022, Assistant Attorney General for National Security Matthew Olsen virtue signaled, “By grouping cases under the China Initiative rubric, we helped give rise to a harmful perception that the department applies a lower standard to investigate and prosecute criminal conduct related to that country or that we in some way view people with racial, ethnic or familial ties to China differently”. Translation: DEI ideology was paramount in determining counterintelligence priorities.
However, in the case of retired New York Police Detective Michael McMahon, an upside down, crafted narrative has developed where Michael McMahon became the villain while the U.S. Government protected, a rogue Chinese Government Official and his wife who lied to obtain residency in the U.S. while laundering tens of millions of embezzled dollars. The Michael McMahon case glosses over failure to provide due process, a willful, J6 style behavior of the U.S. Government to deny key exculpatory information to defense counsel, and the possible manipulation of the U.S. Government by the “victims” who were (are?) Chinese Communist Party Officials who made false statements to enter the United States.
DOJ / FBI go after a U.S. Citizen while protecting Chinese Communist Party Officials?
The DOJ press release on the sentencing of Michael McMahon, a decorated and retired New York City Police Officer sounded ominous. In the press release it stated Michael “was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay an $11,000 fine for acting as an illegal agent of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and interstate stalking and conspiracy to commit the same, for his participation in a scheme to coerce repatriation of a U.S. resident to the PRC as part of its international repatriation effort known as “Operation Fox Hunt.”
Well, of course, we want to aggressively eliminate nefarious Chinese operations such as Police Stations, Chinese Special Operators sneaking across the southern border, and the secret repatriation efforts of Chinese intelligence. But who are the supposed victims in all of this drama? In his Private Investigator work, post-NYPD Service, McMahon was hired by a New York based company in 2016 to locate a person named Jin Xu and his wife Fang Liu in New Jersey. He was told Jin Xu had stolen millions of dollars from a China based construction company. He was tasked to locate the embezzled funds Jin Xu was able to exfiltrate out of China.
What did the government know about Jin Xu and Fang Liu in 2016? Jin Xu was a former CCP Official who had a significant government position in, wait for it, Wuhan China. Jin Xu and his wife, in a U.S. Federal court filing (USDC Central California Case 8:17-M-J-00088 dated April 4, 2017) are listed as, “Foreign Chinese nationals (who) received green cards under the EB-5 program, even though they were fugitives from justice and their EB-5 petitions contained false information”. The real narrative of this obfuscated story should be something more like, “New Jersey Private Investigator sacrificed by the FBI to protect a wanted, high ranking CCP official, illegally in the United States.” June 2023 court records reveal the “victims”, Jin Xu and Fang Liu thanked the FBI for their assistance with immigration issues and a 30-million-dollar civil lawsuit against them.
Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) weaponized again – against a U.S. Citizen
The essence of the U.S. Government’s case against McMahon is that he did not file under FARA. To be guilty of failing to file under FARA, one must factually know that their clients are members of a foreign government. The FBI and DOJ failed to demonstrate that McMahon factually knew that his co-defendants were part of the Chinese, “Operation Fox Hunt” program. There is no legal requirement in FARA for someone to obtain a signed deposition from a client stating, under penalty of perjury, that they are not an overt or clandestine member of a foreign government. Expecting a truthful response from a client when asking, “Before I work for you, I need to know, are you a member of a foreign government or a foreign spy?” is a non-sequitur. During Discovery, when parties in legal proceedings are to share relevant information, the U.S. Government provided extensive documentation; however, it was encrypted, and the defendant and his attorneys were not provided the keys to decrypt according to those knowledgeable with the case. By failing to share the encryption keys, the U.S. Government incurred immense obstacles to the defendant and his counsel.
While the Biden Administration aggressively prosecuted McMahon, the same Biden DOJ, FBI, and Secretary of State, Antony Blinken openly courted the architect and director of the Chinese Police Station and Foxhunt program, Liu Jianchao. Secretary of State Antony Blinken appears to have hosted a “state dinner” (funded by the U.S. Taxpayer), for “Liu Jianchao, China’s leading envoy — and the architect of its global scheme to kidnap and silence anti-Communist dissidents.” McMahon was prosecuted, while members of the CCP were treated to state dinners by members of the Biden Governance Committee.
McMahon whitewash reveals the Chinese Infiltration of the EB-5 Visa Program and direct involvement in the construction of Classified U.S. Government facilities
The alleged victims, Jin Xu and Fang Liu, lied on their EB-5 Visa program. The EB-5 visa provides a method of obtaining a green card for foreign nationals who invest in a “new commercial enterprise”. The EB-5 program came from Immigration Reform in 1990.
Molasky Construction of Las Vegas, Nevada cites its success in building U.S. Government Facilities, including several FBI field offices, which are highly classified facilities. The EB-5 Program is touted to Chinese nationals seeking Green Cards. Chinese invest in Molasky, Molasky builds sensitive U.S. Government buildings. Makes perfect sense. For special and secure U.S. Government Facilities, trustworthy companies are needed that can deliver the best construction and renovation to make sure no foreign threat fills that building and network connectivity with different tricks of the trade to see, hear, and read everything going on in that facility.
There is a bizarre narrative that has developed over Michael McMahon. Perhaps the U.S. Government has flipped Jin Xu and Fang Liu, but that doesn’t mean they have to destroy an American Citizen in the process. Michael was held accountable for not knowing that those paying him were related to the Chinese Government. However, CCP Officials were treated with deference and the EB-5 VISA program is the Open Southern Border equivalent in the construction of sensitive U.S. Government installations. There are many reasonable questions in the McMahon Case and the entire case, verdict, and sentencing is a trail of favoritism toward the Chinese “Victims” and also the Chinese Intelligence Officials who led the Fox Hunt Program while an American is sent to Jail.
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