Grand jury charges UC Davis researcher with visa fraud and concealing membership in Chinese military

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American Military News  August 07, 2020 Matthew Ormseth - Los Angeles Times

A federal grand jury in Sacramento has charged that a cancer researcher at UC Davis committed visa fraud when she concealed her alleged membership in the Chinese military in seeking permission to live and study in the United States.

The indictment returned Thursday also alleges that the researcher, Juan Tang, lied to the FBI.

Tang is among several Chinese nationals charged in U.S. courts in recent months, accused of concealing their alleged affiliations with the Chinese military and other government institutions in seeking research positions at several of the United States’ eminent universities, including Stanford and UC San Francisco.

Tang’s attorney, Alexandra Negin, said in an email that her client would enter a not-guilty plea Monday. She raised concern that Tang, who remains in custody, cannot exercise her right to a speedy trial because jury trials have been postponed during the coronavirus pandemic.

“This is truly a situation where a person who is presumed innocent is being punished before she even has a chance to have her case heard by a jury,” Negin said.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/08/grand-jury-charges-uc-davis-researcher-with-visa-fraud-and-concealing-membership-in-chinese-military/

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For context to this, http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,409376.0.html .

UC Davis Medical Center started out as Sacramento County Hospital in 1852. It became affiliated with UC Davis in 1966 and UC Davis Medical School was started in 1968. In 1972 ownership of the hospital was transferred to UC Davis and adjoining property, the former state fairgrounds, was purchased to provide for expansion. Source, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Davis_Medical_Center . UCDMC has not been around as long as Stanford's hospitals or UCSF's but it is among the best in the western US, hence its attraction for "industrial" espionage.