For nearly two decades – from 1998 through 2015 – Cash was an informant for NYPD Major Case Squad detectives and federal immigration investigators, while also leading a violent gang.
In the dead of a July night, two men burst into a private room at a karaoke bar in Flushing, Queens, where a group was celebrating an upcoming wedding with beers and sing-along tunes. The gunman, a bodyguard known as “Little Beijing,” leapt onto a table at the center of the room and took aim at a man singing into a microphone.
The informant was Qian Zheng, a well-known figure in gambling parlors and other seedy neighborhood hangouts.For nearly two decades – from 1998 through 2015 – Cash was a snitch for NYPD Major Case Squad detectives and federal immigration investigators, according to court documents recently unsealed at the request of The Post.
Back in 2007, Cash became the owner and manager of a bus company that ferried passengers to the south from New York. Around the same time, he passed information to law enforcement about extortion and collusion in the industry, as well as violence and cigarette smuggling along the routes, according to the documents.
In his first stint as a federal informant from 2003 to 2006, he sang about a human trafficking victim, wore a wire on a “handful of occasions” and provided information about murder, extortion, alien smuggling and money laundering,” then-HSI Acting Deputy Assistant Director Anthony Scandiffio said in a letter submitted in his case.
When the victim refused to pay, Ding Pa, worried he was losing “face” – or respect – as a shot-caller in the neighborhood – went to the karaoke joint that night to flex his muscle, prosecutors said. “It is clear from the defendant’s behavior that he acted as an informant to further his own agenda,” Assistant US Attorneys Nadia E. Moore and Maria Cruz Melendez wrote.
He did so, “in order to maintain their relationship and potentially obtain a benefit from the NYPD,” the prosecutors wrote. “He cherry picked whatever he reported to his handler,” a criminal defense attorney who works with Asian New Yorkers told The Post. “You can pretend like you’re helping the police while you’re making ill-gotten gains on the other side.”
Cash was released from prison under the First Step Act in September after serving nearly seven years, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons said.
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