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   https://nypost.com/2024/09/07/us-news/nyc-councilwoman-who-infamously-bit-   
   cops-arm-creates-defense-fund-to-offset-legal-bills/   
      
   A Brooklyn Democrat who infamously chomped on a cop’s arm at a homeless   
   shelter protest — and then had protesters linked to Communist China rally   
   in her support — has created a legal defense fund to pay her lawyers, The   
   Post has learned.   
      
   Councilwoman Susan Zhuang (D-Brooklyn) filed papers with the city   
   Conflicts of Interest Board confirming she created a legal defense trust,   
   a controversial mechanism allowing her to accept donations in a manner   
   similar to political campaigns — to pay off legal fees.   
      
   Zhuang said funds received will be used to cover her legal expenses from   
   the myriad criminal charges she’s facing, including assault and resisting   
   arrest, after she allegedly sank her teeth into NYPD Deputy Chief Frank   
   DiGiacomo’s arm during a July 17 protest against a proposed Bensonhurst   
   shelter.   
      
   The defense fund tactic was used by Mayor Eric Adams last year to defray   
   attorney fees over federal investigations into his 2021 mayoral campaign,   
   but is otherwise rare in NYC.   
      
   It’s mind-boggling that Zhuang is raising money to defend herself after   
   being caught on camera sinking her teeth into the officer, one city   
   councilmember said.   
      
   “Susan must be raising cash for a separate legal defense fund because she   
   knows she’s guilty,” the source quipped. “But I’m not sure what kind of   
   person would donate to such a cause.”   
      
   Hundreds rallied for Zhuang in a July 28 march, where the event flier   
   listed as the contact a phone number for John Chan, who runs a Chinese   
   Communist Party-linked nonprofit, Asian American Community Empowerment.   
      
   At the time, Zhuang attempted to distance herself from Chan’s group and   
   the July 28 rally’s organizers. WeChat messages previously obtained by The   
   Post show the councilwoman advised protesters how to act at the   
   demonstration and what signs to carry.   
      
   In November, Chan led an effort to drown out the cries of protesters in   
   San Francisco awaiting the arrival of Xi Jinping who claimed their   
   relatives had been harmed by the Chinese government, The San Francisco   
   Standard reported.   
      
   He also reportedly sponsored a small group of state Assembly Republicans   
   to take a trip to China to meet CCP leaders a month later.   
      
   Zhuang confirmed to The Post that she took a “family trip” to China last   
   month, but adamantly denied what she called “rumors being spread by [her]   
   political opponents” that Chan accompanied her on the excursion.   
      
   When asked if he met up with Zhuang in China, Chan said “I don’t know” and   
   hung up on a reporter.   
      
   Aiming Feng, one of three trustees for Zhuang’s defense fund, also   
   insisted the councilwoman’s China excursion was simply a “family trip.”   
      
   A recent online petition addressed to Mayor Adams, Council Speaker   
   Adrienne Adams and Councilwoman Sandra Ung, the ethics committee chair,   
   called for them to censure Zhuang.   
      
   “I implore you to take immediate action to hold Councilwoman Zhuang   
   accountable,” read the petition, which garnered 123 signatures as of   
   Friday.   
      
   Besides Adams and Zhuang, former Mayor Bill de Blasio also expressed   
   interest in creating a legal defense trust to help pay off a $300,000   
   lawyer tab in connection to a federal probe into his own political   
   fundraising.   
      
   However, de Blasio never set one up – even after the City Council in 2019   
   passed legislation creating the new fundraising mechanism.   
      
      
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