{"id":140051,"date":"2025-11-07T22:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140051"},"modified":"2025-11-07T22:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:36:24","slug":"trump-pardons-ex-nypd-officer-convicted-of-helping-beijing-stalk-chinese-expatunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=140051","title":{"rendered":"Trump pardons ex-NYPD officer convicted of helping Beijing stalk Chinese expatUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump granted a pardon on Friday to a former New York police sergeant who was convicted of helping China try to scare an ex-official into going back to his homeland, a prominent case in US authorities\u2019 efforts to combat what they claim are Beijing\u2019s far-flung efforts to repress critics.<br \/>\nMichael McMahon was sentenced this spring to 18 months in prison for his involvement in what a federal judge called \u201ca campaign of transnational repression\u201d.<br \/>\nHe insisted he was innocent,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3332013\/trump-pardons-ex-nypd-officer-convicted-helping-beijing-stalk-chinese-expat?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS President Donald Trump granted a pardon on Friday to a former New York police sergeant who was convicted of helping&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140051"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}