Former University of Kansas professor Feng "Franklin" Tao, who concealed work he was doing for China, had three wire fraud convictions thrown out on Tuesday.

Oakley argued that when Tao was in China to negotiate with Fuzhou University about setting up a lab and recruiting students, he lied to the University of Kansas about his whereabouts.

Fuzhou University (FZU) in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China, is a comprehensive university that was founded in 1958. It is most well known in the fields of science and engineering, but also has ...

In 2018, Tao accepted a position at China’s Fuzhou University as a Changjiang Scholar Distinguished Professor, which required him to be a full-time employee of the university, according to court ...

He was accused of not disclosing that he was working for Fuzhou University in China while employed at the Kansas university.However, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson ruled that federal ...

In 2017, Fuzhou University, a university located in Fujian, China, attempted to recruit him, the lawsuit said, but failed after a family trip to see the university in January 2018.

Federal prosecutors argued that Tao defrauded the University of Kansas, the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation by lying about work he was doing for Fuzhou University in ...

Last month, former University of Kansas Professor Feng “Franklin” Tao was sentenced to time served and two years of supervised release for making false statements in the University of Kansas ...

The U.S. government arrested Chinese professors, implying that they were foreign agents. The professors say that they’ve been caught up in a xenophobic panic.

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