Andy Zhu, Accused of Bribing an Eric Adams Adviser, Donated to Foundation Operating Secret Police Station

Developer Zhu Yan Po, who allegedly bribed top Eric Adams adviser Frank Carone with $120,000 and was arrested Wednesday, also donated to the foundation that operated a secret Chinese police station in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

Zhu, 51, also known as Andy Zhu, was arrested June 24 along with Frank Carone and two others for alleged bribery in 2022. Zhu allegedly bribed Carone to help secure a city contract for an emergency shelter to house illegal immigrants at his hotel in Long Island City.

Zhu pleaded not guilty to federal bribery and fraud charges. He was released on a bail bond of $8 million and required to surrender his passport.

As first reported by the New York Post in 2018, Zhu donated $100,000 to the America Changle Association, where Lu Jianwang later established a secret Chinese police station on East Broadway in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

On May 13, a jury convicted “Harry” Lu Jianwang of being a foreign agent for China. Lu used the association’s headquarters to run an illegal Chinese police station in 2022. He spied on Chinese dissidents in New York and Falun Gong practitioners, reporting back to Chinese state security.

Zhu participated in protests against then-Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen in 2019 on her visit to New York. Photos of the protest show him standing beside Linda Sun, a onetime aide to New York Govs. Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul. In 2024, Sun was arrested and charged with being a foreign agent for China. In December 2025, Sun’s trial ended with a hung jury.

Sun told FBI agent Garret Igo that it was Zhu who helped her secure tickets to the CCP’s lavish 70th anniversary celebration held in Beijing on Sept. 29, 2019, which Zhu also attended.

Zhu is the founder of East Times Group, where his website describes him as “an entrepreneur, investor, and family office executive with more than 20 years of experience across financial investments, private capital, and cross-border business operations in the United States and Asia.”

His website says he has led more than 5 million square feet of development projects in a mix of residential, commercial, and other sectors, “with completed projects collectively valued at over $3 billion.”

His personal company website displays photos of Zhu with Presidents Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Barack Obama, as well as President Donald Trump and Jared Kushner.

Public campaign contribution records show he donated tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic and Republican congressional campaigns, including $47,000 this year to the National Republican Congressional Committee. He also donated to the campaigns of former New York Mayors Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams, Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.).

Zhu is originally from the Changle district of Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province in southeast China, according to Chinese media reports.

The Epoch Times reached out to Zhu’s attorney for comment on the case, but a response was not received by publication time.