Sunset Park gang member gets five years’ probation after cooperating with feds
Members of a Chinese street gang huddled in an illegal Sunset Park gambling parlor and threw around thousands of dollars, until the feds busted the gang’s leader and seven others in 2015. Now, the federal government has flipped one of the alleged gang members in an attempt to bring down the whole crew.
Billy Chen was a member of the Zheng Organization that operated out of Sunset Park and Flushing, Queens until he cooperated against his gang members and sought a new life. As a result, Chen walked out of Brooklyn federal court Tuesday with five years’ probation in front of him.
“I know that I was wrong,” Chen said in court through a Chinese translator. “I will never again do bad things.”