Sunset Park Gang Member Gets Probation After Working With Feds: Report

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A member of a notorious Brooklyn gang that operated out of Sunset Park received probation Tuesday after cooperating with federal officials and giving information about some of his other accomplices, according to a report.

Billy Chen was a member of the Zheng Organization, an Asian gang that cast a "shadow of violence" over Brooklyn. The group was taken down in late 2015 by prosecutors who charged members with racketeering, drug trafficking, extortion and more.

Chen pled guilty and shared information about the gang's inner-workings and testified against his fellow gang members at trial, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

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He left court on Tuesday with just five years of probation, the Eagle reported.

"I know that I was wrong," he said through a translator, according to the Eagle. "I will never again do bad things."

Chen allegedly hired two people to beat a target and fire gunshots into another target’s restaurant "so he would pay an alleged debt," prosecutors said.

"The Zheng Organization used violence and an array of criminal activities to enhance their power and protect their territory," former FBI head Diego Rodriguez said, according to the Eagle. "It’s gang-related activity like this that infects our communities with an illness that kills our neighborhoods’ safety and growth."

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