WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—Two men have pleaded guilty to acting as illegal Chinese agents in helping Beijing to further its suppression of the faith group Falun Gong in the United States.
The pair, John Chen and Lin Feng from California, worked for months in 2023 with a Chinese official in a scheme to bribe the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to revoke the nonprofit status of a New York-based organization run by Falun Gong practitioners.
The spiritual belief—featuring meditation and principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance—has faced a brutal suppression campaign in China. Millions of Falun Gong practitioners have experienced detention and torture, with an unknown number killed for state-directed forced organ harvesting….