MIT Professor’s Case Over China Poised to Be Dropped by U.S.
- Nanotechnology expert Gang Chen accused of hiding China ties
- Chen ‘eager to clear his name’ and move on, his lawyers say
The Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C.
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U.S. prosecutors will likely urge a judge to drop an indictment against an MIT professor charged a year ago with receiving federal grant money but failing to disclose his ties to China, according to people familiar with the matter.
The reversal in the case of Gang Chen, a nanotechnology expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, comes as the Justice Department is reviewing its policy of investigating and prosecuting cases of economic espionage intended to benefit China.