Private Eye Found Guilty of Acting as Illegal Chinese Agent

Justice Department accused an investigator and two other defendants of harassing a former Chinese official living in New Jersey

Michael McMahon is a retired New York Police Department sergeant turned private investigator. Photo: yuki iwamura/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

A private investigator and another man were found guilty on Tuesday of acting as illegal agents of the Chinese government in a harassment campaign of a former Chinese official and his family living in New Jersey. 

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