Chinese secret police targeted congressional candidate and Olympic skater's family, federal indictment says

(AP) Five people in the US acting on behalf of Chinese secret police sought to intimidate Chinese nationals and US critics of Beijing - including a New York congressional candidate and an Olympic figure skater and her father - to silence dissident voices abroad, according to federal prosecutors in New York. Three criminal complaints from the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn allege a series of "transnational repression schemes" from agents of the Chinese government, some spanning several years, including seeking to undermine the candidacy of a Democratic congressional candidate in New York and spying on an artist in Los Angeles….