TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 3, 2022

The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has reinstated Professor Anming Hu two years after he was accused of espionage by the U.S. government, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports. The university terminated Hu after he was indicted in 2020 on three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements related to his interactions with a China-based university. Those charges were thrown out by a federal judge in 2021. Hu’s attorney, Phil Lomonaco, said his client, a nanotechnology expert, returned to UT this week with tenure. He received $300,000 worth of funding to restart his research program and has been provided similar lab space.