The sentencing comes after prosecutors sought a 33-month prison term for Pauken, who’s been in custody since his arrest, while the defense sought probation or a sentence that could be served in a halfway house.
Thomas W. Pauken II developed sources with access to sensitive information in the U.S. and was told his reports were being sent directly to China’s president, according to court records.
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Federal investigators spent years building a case that a taxpayer-funded nonprofit billed two agencies for the same dangerous-pathogen research in Wuhan, and no one has been charged with it, leading to questions of whether grant fraud on that scale carries any consequence.
‘advancing Beijing’s vision of the world order’
The posts made claims about AI data centers driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included AI-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.
Emily Feng’s 'Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping’s China,' has become an important book for understanding China's authoritarian abuses.
A crackdown on American academia by the Trump administration has handed Canadian universities a rare opportunity to lure some top researchers north.
U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson says foreign bettors are helping push prediction markets into giving Democrats better odds of taking over the House.
Declassified documents reveal a broader reluctance among institutions to address Chinese influence operations targeting Democratic officials.