Officials with Ties to Homeland Security Part of Group Charged with Spying on Behalf of China, “Transnational Repression Scheme to Silence”

A DHS deportation officer and a former agent are indicted for helping China track dissidents in the U.S. The DHS agent accessed government databases and gave info to the enemy.

Reuters: U.S. prosecutors charged two men tied to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of what federal law enforcement officials have called a “transnational repression scheme” on behalf of the Chinese government to spy on and harass dissidents living in the United States. Asked for comment, a spokesman for China’s embassy in Washington said it was “not aware of the specific situation” but that Beijing “firmly opposes acts by the U.S. that groundlessly malign and smear China.” The two men charged were Craig Miller, who has worked as a DHS deportation officer for 15 years in Minnesota, and Derrick Taylor, a retired DHS law enforcement agent now working as a private investigator in California, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. On Wednesday, a grand jury returned an indictment charging the two men and three others with crimes committed while acting as alleged Chinese agents, the department said in a statement (Reuters). Daily Wire: Miller allegedly deleted text messages between himself and Taylor while being questioned by authorities, and Taylor supposedly instructed an associate to withhold evidence from the FBI. Miller and Taylor have been charged with obstruction of justice, and Taylor has additionally been charged with making false statements to the FBI… The accused, if convicted, face decades in prison, with possible sentences for the defendants ranging between 20-30 years. (Daily Wire).

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Five Individuals Indicted for Crimes Related to Transnational Repression Scheme to Silence Critics of the People’s Republic of China Residing in the United States

Defendants Include Federal Law Enforcement Officer and Private Investigator Who Lied to FBI Agents and Obstructed Justice
Justice.Gov, July 8, 2022:

Yesterday, a grand jury returned an indictment in federal court in Brooklyn charging five defendants with various crimes pertaining to a transnational repression scheme orchestrated on behalf of the government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).  The case is assigned to the United States District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall and the defendants’ will be arraigned at a later date.

Three of the defendants—Fan “Frank” Liu, Matthew Ziburis, and Qiang “Jason” Sun—allegedly perpetrated in the transnational repression scheme to target U.S. residents whose political views and actions are disfavored by the PRC government, such as advocating for democracy in the PRC.  Among other items, the defendants plotted to destroy the artwork of a PRC national residing in Los Angeles, California that was critical of the PRC government, and planted surveillance equipment in the artist’s workplace and car to spy on him from the PRC.  Liu and Ziburis were arrested pursuant to a criminal complaint in March 2022, while Sun remains at large.

There are two new defendants charged in the scheme, Craig Miller and Derrick Taylor.  Miller is a 15-year employee of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), currently assigned as a Deportation Officer to DHS’s Enforcement and Removal Operations in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Taylor is a retired DHS law enforcement agent who presently works as a private investigator in Irvine, California.  The charges against Miller and Taylor pertain to their alleged obstruction of justice, including by destroying evidence, after they were approached by agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and asked about their procurement and dissemination of sensitive and confidential information from a restricted federal law enforcement database regarding U.S.-based dissidents from the PRC.  This information was used by Liu and Sun in the transnational repression scheme.  Both Miller and Taylor were arrested pursuant to a criminal complaint in June 2022.

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