Tom Simon

It's something they do.

Yeah.

It's so intrusive.

And they become aware of Ping's clandestine activities.

They begin monitoring Ping's communications further and then finally arrest him for acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government.

Like you said, espionage right under your nose in Wesley Chapel.

Right under your nose.

You could have been behind this guy in line at the Publix.

But during his interrogation, Ping lied his ass off.

It wasn't until the FBI agent showed him printed copies of encrypted emails that he had sent to his handlers that he broke down and confessed to the spying activities.

They broke him.

He said, and this is actually interesting, that the reason he did it, because he felt that if he did not cooperate, his mother back in China would be harmed.

Yeah, yeah.

He pleads guilty, and at his sentencing, Ping says...

I'm going to read the quote, but I'm not going to do it with an accent.

Oh, yeah.

The accent would be a little ethnic, and I think that might get us both in trouble.

He said, looking back now.

I refuse to do a Chinese accent.

What is this accent?