19-01-2023, 06:53 PM
UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO
WASHINGTON - A former University of Kansas professor avoided prison on Wednesday for making a false statement related to work he was doing in China in the latest setback for a Trump-era US Department of Justice crackdown on Chinese influence within American academia.
Prosecutors had asked US District Judge Julie Robinson in Kansas City, Kansas, to sentence Feng “Franklin” Tao to 2-1/2 years in prison, even after she had thrown out most of his trial conviction for concealing work he did in China.
Judge Robinson instead sentenced Tao to time served, saying there was no evidence he shared proprietary information with anyone in China and that the chemical engineering professor did research that was “freely shared in the scientific community”.
“This is not an espionage case,” Judge Robinson said. “Maybe that’s what the Department of Justice thought what was going on, but that’s not what was going on.”
Rest of the report at: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...ated-probe
WASHINGTON - A former University of Kansas professor avoided prison on Wednesday for making a false statement related to work he was doing in China in the latest setback for a Trump-era US Department of Justice crackdown on Chinese influence within American academia.
Prosecutors had asked US District Judge Julie Robinson in Kansas City, Kansas, to sentence Feng “Franklin” Tao to 2-1/2 years in prison, even after she had thrown out most of his trial conviction for concealing work he did in China.
Judge Robinson instead sentenced Tao to time served, saying there was no evidence he shared proprietary information with anyone in China and that the chemical engineering professor did research that was “freely shared in the scientific community”.
“This is not an espionage case,” Judge Robinson said. “Maybe that’s what the Department of Justice thought what was going on, but that’s not what was going on.”
Rest of the report at: https://www.straitstimes.com/world/unite...ated-probe