NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump granted a pardon Friday to a former New York police sergeant who was convicted of helping China try to scare an ex-official into going back to his homeland , a prominent case in U.S. authorities' efforts to combat what they claim are Beijing's farflung efforts to repress critics. Michael McMahon was sentenced this spring to 18 months in prison for his in what a federal judge called “a campaign of transnational repression ." He insisted he was innocent, saying he was “unwittingly used” when he took what he thought was a straightforward private-investigator gig. McMahon said he was told he was working for a Chinese construction company, not the nation's government. A White House official, speaking Friday on condition of anonymity to discuss a pardon that ha

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