CHINA-US: U.S. COURT CLEARS CHINESE-ORIGIN U.S. ACADEMIC OF ESPIONAGE CHARGES
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Professor Anming Hu, who was arrested last year for wire fraud and false statements but was
acquitted by a judge in September, has been offered his position back at the University of Tennessee.
Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor John Zomchick said in a letter to Anming Hu on October 14
that he could have his job back with tenure an as engineering professor. He was also given support
for his work visa, back pay, payment for an immigration attorney and $200,000 over the next three
years to get his research started again. Federal prosecutors went after Hu for not saying he worked
part-time at a Chinese university in an application for a NASA-funded research grant. The judge
said that Hu never had anyone from China work on the project, nor did he ever take money from
China. The judge also said that NASA’s funding restrictions were unclear
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