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Late Thursday afternoon, Malcolm Segal and Tom Johnson were in their respective law offices on Capitol Mall in downtown Sacramento preparing for a Friday hearing in federal court for Juan Tang, a Chinese cancer researcher who was due to face trial starting Monday.
Suddenly, they saw a filing from federal prosecutors come online, one that was asking U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to dismiss the case the government had been pursuing for a year.
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The Justice Department moved in recent days to drop charges against four researchers at California universities accused of hiding their ties to the Chinese military, a blow to U.S. efforts to battle Beijing’s attempts to steal U.S. national security and business secrets.
Juan Tang
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On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Sacramento asked a judge to dismiss the case of Juan Tang, a cancer researcher at UC Davis who had been accused of lying on a visa application about having served in the Chinese military. The request was granted, and on Friday prosecutors in three similar cases sought to dismiss charges against researchers who worked at Stanford University, UC San Francisco and UCLA.
Feds abruptly drop visa fraud charges against Chinese military scientists
Prosecutors provided no explanation for the dismissals, but they reportedly came after evidence surfaced that a visa application question was not clear enough for Chinese military scientists to answer accurately.
In this Thursday, April 14, 2016 photo, a Chinese national flag flutters against the office buildings at the Shanghai Bund shrouded by pollution and fog in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Federal prosecutors this week abruptly dropped fraud charges against three Chinese researchers accused of lying on visa applications about their ties to the Chinese military.
In tersely worded documents filed in two federal court cases Friday, the Justice Department asked for charges to be dismissed against Chen Song, a former Stanford researcher, and Xin Wang, who worked at a U.S. government-funded lab at the University of California, San Francisco.
Associated Press July 22, 2021 - 6:34 PM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) â U.S. prosecutors sought Thursday to drop their case against a Chinese researcher accused of concealing her ties to the Chinese military on a visa application so she could work in the U.S.
In documents filed in federal court in Sacramento, prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss a charge of visa fraud against Juan Tang but gave no reason why.
The trial was set to begin on Monday. A message seeking comment from the U.S. Attorney s office in Sacramento has not been returned.
âWe hope Dr. Tang is allowed to return to her daughter and husband on her own,â Malcolm Segal and Tom Johnson said in a statement.
US seeks to drop Chinese researcherâs visa fraud case
• Associated Press • July 23, 2021
The Justice Department announced last July charges against Juan Tang and three other scientists living in the U.S., saying they lied about their status as members of Chinaâs Peopleâs Liberation Army. (Department of Justice)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. â U.S. prosecutors sought Thursday to drop their case against a Chinese researcher accused of concealing her ties to the Chinese military on a visa application so she could work in the U.S.
In documents filed in federal court in Sacramento, prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss a charge of visa fraud against Juan Tang but gave no reason why.