[PREMIERING 1 PM ET] Inside a CCP Scheme to Bribe an IRS Official to Target Falun Gong, DOJ Indicts Two: Levi Browde

Two suspected Chinese agents were precocious indicted for attempting to bribe a nationalist authoritative with tens of thousands of dollars successful a strategy targeting the persecuted religion radical Falun Gong successful the United States.

John Chen, a 70-year-old U.S. national calved successful China, and Lin Feng, a Chinese national aged 43, were trying to get a Falun Gong-run entity stripped of its tax-exempt status, tribunal filings state.

The brace met with what turned retired to beryllium an undercover cause posing arsenic an IRS authoritative and promised to wage a full of $50,000. Chen gave the cause $1,000 successful cash, arsenic an archetypal outgo connected May 14. Four days later, Feng gave the undercover cause different $4,000 successful currency astatine the John F. Kennedy International Airport.