Fed­er­al ju­ry con­victs Kansas chem pro­fes­sor on four counts in 'Chi­na Ini­tia­tive' case

Feng “Franklin” Tao, a chem­istry pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Kansas, was found guilty on four of eight counts brought against him by the De­part­ment of Jus­tice.

Tao was ar­rest­ed in 2019 un­der the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion’s con­tro­ver­sial “Chi­na Ini­tia­tive” — since de­pri­or­i­tized and re­named by the Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion af­ter many failed pros­e­cu­tions and crit­i­cism of fu­el­ing racial bias — and was sus­pend­ed from his as­so­ciate pro­fes­sor role at KU, barred from cam­pus and has been wear­ing a track­ing de­vice on his an­kle, NPR re­port­ed.

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