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发帖数: 1 | 1 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: swordzz2 (swordzz2), 信区: Military
标 题: 大陪审团8月10日起诉唐娟 FBI揭其研究生物制剂解毒剂
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Aug 9 09:03:19 2020, 美东)
助理检察官（Heiko P. Coppola）在法庭文件中指出在签证申请时唐娟回答一连串问题
包括是否曾在军队服役、是否属于中国共产党、是否具有特殊化学或生物学经验，联邦
调查局发现唐对这些的问题有着错误的回答，当警方搜索唐的公寓时，发现她穿军服的
照片以及中国军事文件，表明她在研究生物制剂的解毒剂。
洛杉矶时报详细报道
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-06/grand-jury-charges-uc-
davis-researcher-with-visa-fraud-and-concealing-membership-in-chinese-
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发帖数: 1 | 2 Grand jury charges UC Davis researcher with visa fraud and concealing
membership in Chinese military
Juan Tang.
Juan Tang.(U.S. Department of Justice)
By MATTHEW ORMSETHSTAFF WRITER
AUG. 6, 20208:24 PM
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.
Federal prosecutors in Sacramento persuaded a judge to order Tang detained,
citing her lack of ties to the United States and alleged links to the
Chinese government, whose consulate and intelligence officials could spirit
her out of the country and beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement.
Tang, 37, applied for a J-1 visa in October 2019 to “conduct cancer
treatment-method research” at UC Davis, Heiko P. Coppola, an assistant U.S.
attorney, wrote in court papers. On the application, she said “no” to a
series of questions asking if she had ever served in the military, if she
belonged to any communist parties and if she had “any special chemical or
biological experience.”
“The FBI’s investigation determined Tang’s answers to these questions was
false,” Coppola wrote. When agents searched her apartment in Davis in June
, they found pictures of her wearing a military uniform, a video of her
giving a salute in uniform, and “Chinese military documents” that showed
she was researching “antidotes for biological agents,” he wrote.
After the agents left, taking with them Tang’s passport and other items,
she went to the Chinese consulate in San Francisco to seek help, Negin, her
attorney, wrote in a memo.
Tang remained in the building for a month, prompting a spokeswoman for the
federal prosecutor’s office in Sacramento to declare that the consulate was
harboring “a fugitive from justice.”
When Tang learned of the charges, she was “in hysterics” and taken to a
hospital, her attorney wrote in court papers. Agents tailed Tang to the
hospital and arrested her after she was treated and discharged. She has been
detained ever since.
Negin contended that much of the evidence federal authorities have cited as
proof of Tang’s clandestine military affiliation, including photographs of
her in uniform, “lend themselves to many innocent explanations.”
Tang may have attended “a prestigious medical school that is run by the
military in China,” Negin wrote, but “that does not mean that she was ‘in
the military.’”
Negin added: Tang may have given certain responses because she didn’t
understand how the questions were phrased, or other “potential cultural
misunderstandings.” |
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