Chinese professor, despite no remorse, to return home after guilty plea in Huawei theft case
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Chinese professor accused of stealing American know-how to revenue China’s Huawei Technologies Co plans to return to his home nation after being sentenced on Monday for lying to the FBI.
Despite expressing no remorse, Bo Mao was sentenced to time served by U.S. District Judge Pamela Chen in Brooklyn, following his Dec. 4 guilty plea. Prosecutors, who supported the sentence, dropped a additional vital wire fraud conspiracy value.
Mao had been a visiting professor on the University of Texas at Arlington when he was arrested in August 2019. He is scheduled to return to China on Wednesday.
Prosecutors talked about Mao agreed with a California know-how agency, later confirmed to be Silicon Valley’s CNEX Labs, to pay money for its circuit board ostensibly for tutorial …