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Citizenship Pulled After China Tech Theft
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Judge Revokes Their CitizenshipA federal judge has stripped U.S. citizenship… |
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Judge Revokes Their CitizenshipA federal judge has stripped U.S. citizenship from Li Chen and Yu Zhou after finding they illegally obtained naturalization. The court said the couple had already committed serious crimes when they later became citizens, which is a neat little reminder that paperwork does not erase a criminal record. Judge James E. Simmons Jr. ruled that their convictions for conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets and conspiracy to commit wire fraud made them ineligible for naturalization in the first place. Federal officials framed the case as a correction of abuse in the immigration system, not some grand philosophical debate about who gets to keep the blue passport.What Prosecutors Say They StoleProsecutors said Chen and Zhou worked as research scientists at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and had access to sensitive medical technology tied to exosome isolation. Instead of treating that access like a trust, they allegedly used it to take proprietary information, build their own company, buy into another company, and pass valuable intellectual property toward China. The government says the pair also received funding tied to the Chinese government and collected nearly $1.5 million from transactions linked to the stolen research. In other words, this was not a…
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