W.P. man says he was target of racism

Baimadije Angwang was accused of supplying Chinese officials with information

BY BRANDON DUFFY

Baimadije Angwang, a Williston Park resident and NYPD officer who had charges of supplying Chinese officials with information on Tibetans living in the United States dropped by federal prosecutors in January, said in a recent interview with Newsday he was a target of prosecutors suspicious of anyone with connections to China.

“So my question is, is it racially motivated? Is it abusing power?” “Angwang said. “Those are the questions I think they should answer.”

Angwang, a 36-year-old Tibetan native who now lives in Nassau County, was charged in September 2020 with acting as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China, committing wire fraud, making false statements and obstructing an official proceeding, according to the criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District.

U.S. District Judge Eric R. Komitee dropped the charges against Angwang after federal prosecutors asked to dismiss the indictment against him.

Angwang had been out on $2 million bond since February 2021 after spending six months at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn which also included solitary confinement.

Angwang’s arrest occurred during the China Initiative, a program started in 2018 under then-President Donald Trump aimed at countering Beijing’s theft of American Intellectual Property, which President Joe Biden’s admin- istration ended last year.

John Carman, Angwang’s lawyer, told the New York Post when his charges were dropped the prosecutors have avoided explaining why.

“The truth is that they are hiding behind CIPA [the Classified Information Procedures