Federal prosecutors recommended dropping criminal charges against an MIT professor accused of hiding his ties to China, people familiar with the matter say
WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors have recommended that the Justice Department drop criminal charges against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology mechanical engineering professor accused of hiding his China ties, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Biden administration reviewsGang Chen was arrested last January on charges of concealing posts he held in China in a grant application he had made to the U.S. Department of Energy in 2017.
Government investigators pursued Mr. Chen on suspicions that he had forged a collaboration between MIT and a university in Shenzhen to benefit China, though the collaboration had the support of MIT, The Wall Street Journal reported in December. Some of the posts Mr. Chen was accused of hiding were either connected to his relationships through MIT or those he wasn’t paid for.
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