TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 13, 2021

Dr. Anming Hu, the former University of Tennessee professor caught up in an FBI investigation into spying, was acquitted last week by U.S. District Judge Tom Varlan, Knoxnews reports. Hu had faced charges that he hid a dual professorship with a Chinese university. The Justice Department attempted to prosecute Hu twice after indicting him on wire fraud and making false statements. A jury deadlocked on those charges this past summer. In dismissing the case, Varlan said no reasonable jury would infer that holding a professorship at a Chinese university barred Hu from working on federally funded research.