A former New York police sergeant has been sentenced to 18 months in prison in a U.S. case about China’s pursuit of critics ...

Xu, a former official in the city of Wuhan, left China in 2010 ... to go to prison in China to ensure his family’s well-being. Brooklyn-based U.S. Attorney John Durham said in a statement ...

McMahon, a retired New York Police Department sergeant turned private investigator, was hired around 2016 to find Xu, a former Wuhan city official ... a federal court in Brooklyn before learning ...

“If they’re criminals, and if they hit people with baseball bats over the head that happen to be 90 years old, if they rape 87-year-old women in Coney Island, Brooklyn, yeah,” Trump said.