Abstract
A federal judge sentenced former University of Kansas (KU) chemist Feng “Franklin” Tao on Jan. 18 to time served and 2 years’ supervised release for making false statements about undisclosed ties to a research university in China. “Dr. Tao is immensely relieved,” his defense attorney, Peter R. Zeidenberg, says in an emailed statement. In August 2019, federal agents arrested Tao, saying that he worked for China’s Fuzhou University without disclosing this conflict of interest to KU or to the US agencies that supported his research: the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Tao stood trial in March in Kansas City, Kansas, under the China Initiative . Intended to target economic espionage, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) program has been revamped, after the DOJ said it harmed Asian American communities. In April, a jury found Tao guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one count
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