The Justice Department’s abandonment of a high-profile prosecution of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineering professor for allegedly hiding his ties to China was triggered by a senior Energy Department official declaring that the professor’s actions were harmless, a newly disclosed government report suggests.
Last month, prosecutors abruptly dropped all four felony counts they were pursuing against MIT Professor Gang Chen in federal court in Boston as part of a controversial effort known as the China Initiative, which is aimed at rooting out undisclosed Chinese government influence at major U.S. research universities.
Biden administration officials are
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