US expected to drop case against China-born MIT scientist

United States federal prosecutors are expected to soon seek dismissal of charges against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, Gang Chen, a Chinese American academic accused of failing to disclose research ties to China, according to three people familiar with the matter, writes Ellen Nakashima and David Nakamura for The Washington Post.

Prosecutors in Boston have sent a dismissal memo to the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, which has not yet been signed off but is expected to be in the near future, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the litigation is still active. Christina Sterling, spokeswoman for the US attorney’s office in Boston, which is prosecuting the Chen case, declined to comment on the matter. New information obtained by prosecutors recently substantially weakened the case against Chen.

Dismissal of the case would mark arguably the most high-profile setback of the Justice Department’s China Initiative, a wide-ranging and sometimes controversial effort launched in 2018.
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