A federal jury in Illinois has decided that an applied math professor at Southern Illinois University did not commit grant fraud, but is guilty of failing to report a bank account in China on his U.S. tax returns.
was convicted on similar charges. None had been charged with any inappropriate sharing of research results with Chinese counterparts.
However, on Monday District Judge Staci Yandle threw out two of the fraud charges. And yesterday the jury took just 3 hours to acquit Xiao on the third fraud count. The judge’s decision to dismiss two of the fraud counts, and Xiao’s acquittal on the third, represents “a complete rebuke of the Department of Justice’s China Initiative,” said his lawyers, Ryan Poscablo, Patrick Linehan, and Michelle Nasser, in a statement. “We are thankful that those counts were rejected by the Court and the jury as we believe that they were unjust, improperly motivated, and unsupported by the facts and the law.
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