Two PRC Nationals Pled Guilty to Acting as Unregistered Foreign Agents and Bribing IRS Agents

         On July 25, two nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) pleaded guilty to acting as unregistered agents of the PRC and bribing an IRS agent in connection with a conspiracy to target U.S.-based practitioners of Falun Gong, a spiritual practice that the PRC forbids. The defendants pleading guilty were John Chen, 71, of the PRC and Los Angeles, California, and Lin Feng, 44, also a resident of Los Angeles.