A federal jury today found University of Kansas, Lawrence, chemical engineer Franklin Tao guilty of lying to government officials about his ties to a Chinese research institution.
Tao faced eight charges of wire fraud and making false statements to U.S. government agencies in connection with research grants from the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. He was found guilty of three charges of wire fraud and one count of making a false statement.
“While we are deeply disappointed with the jury’s verdict, we believe it was clearly against the weight of the evidence,” Tao’s lawyer, Peter Zeidenberg, said shortly after the verdict was announced. “Given that the victim agencies all said they were fully satisfied with the work Dr. Tao did on their grants, we do not believe the conviction can possibly stand.”
Tao’s case was just the third to go before a federal jury. In the first of those cases, a judge in September 2021 acquitted Anming Hu, a mechanical engineer at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, of charges that he had lied to federal agencies about his ties to China. In the second, in December 2021 Harvard University chemist Charles Lieber was found guilty of hiding his financial ties to Chinese institutions in declarations to Harvard University and to federal funding agencies.
It is not illegal for academics working in the United States to receive foreign support. But federal rules require them to report such funding.
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