Re:In the end, you're treated like a spy, says MIT scientist
by ekianjo on Friday January 28, 2022 @08:16AM
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sounds indeed like mistrial rather that the allegations having no validity at all. The NYT doing quality reporting as usual in a long piece of fluff.
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Re:In the end, you're treated like a spy, says MIT scientist
by roywiggins on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:53AM
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Not a mistrial. The government agency that issued the grants told the prosecutors that he hadn't mislead them. Hard to prosecute someone for wire fraud when the supposed victim is saying that not only is the defendant innocent, no crime happened at all.
> In recent weeks, however, officials at the Department of Energy have told prosecutors that Dr. Chen had no obligation to declare the seven affiliations, calling into question the basis of the charges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/science/gang-chen-mit-chi...
I still have a lot of questions about how this prosecution happened and how it took this long for it to be dropped...