The U.S. Department of Justice announced on May 11 that Dr. Xiao-Jiang Li, a Chinese professor, was sentenced for concealing his participation in the CCP “Thousand Talents Program” and for not reporting this foreign income in his federal income tax returns over several years.

Another participant of the “Thousand Talents Program,” Simon Ang, a Chinese professor specializing in electrical engineering at the University of Arkansas, was arrested for wire fraud.

Li was sentenced to one year of probation on a felony charge and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $35,089. He was also ordered to file lawful income tax returns for the years 2012 through 2018 within the first two months of his probation and fully cooperate with the IRS to make a complete and accurate determination of all taxes, penalties, and interest that he owed.

According to the documents released by the Department of Justice, starting in 2012 and continuing until 2018, Li, while still working at Emory University doing research on the use of large animal models to investigate Huntington’s disease, among other things, also worked for two Chinese universities: at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and then at Jinan University conducting similar large animal model research. Over those six years, Li earned at least $500,000 in foreign income that he didn’t report on his federal income tax returns.

“China’s Recruitment of Overseas High-Level Talent” program, also called the “Thousand Talents Program” was established by the central government of China (the CCP) in 2008 to recognize and recruit leading international experts in the fields of science, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Experts are hired by many universities and research institutions in China so that the CCP can gain research results.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on the same day that another participant of the “Thousand Talents Program,” Simon S. Ang, an electrical engineering professor and researcher at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, was arrested for allegedly committing wire fraud. If convicted, he will face up to 20 years in prison.

Since 2019, the U.S. National Institute of Health has been investigating 55 institutions across the United States, and a number of Chinese scholars have been charged with participating in the “Thousand Talents Program,” leaking U.S. classified information and scientific research results.

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