A man working on behalf of the Chinese government tried to sabotage the campaign of a Tiananmen Square protester and vocal critic of China who is running for Congress in New York, according to a complaint unsealed Wednesday.Qiming Lin hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on the unnamed candidate, according to federal prosecutors. Lin also allegedly planned a scheme to hire a woman to have a relationship with the man who would then come forward and ruin his reputation.The target of the plan was “a former student leader of the Tiananmen Square protests from 1989, who later escaped to the United States and served in the US military,” according to the complaint, which only refers to the candidate as “the victim.”
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