Daily News | Temple professor falsely accused of spying for China urges court to revive his suit against FBI
Arguing before a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday, Xi’s attorneys asserted that that decision was wrong.
And while prosecutors have won convictions against researchers and businessmen who attempted to pilfer everything from fighter-jet schematics to the details on how to make the pigment used to whiten Oreo cookie stuffing, the efforts have been plagued by even higher-profile blunders. Xi contends that in his case the lead investigator, FBI Special Agent Andrew Haugen, had been informed by experts that he had misinterpreted the technology at issue and willfully ignored that fact before presenting false evidence to a grand jury.
Despite that, Haugen proceeded with the case, working with the prosecutors who eventually secured an indictment. “The violations here had devastating consequences for Professor Xi and his family. This is a case about accountability.”In court Wednesday, the Third Circuit panel appeared skeptical that — despite what might have gone on in other cases involving Chinese American scientists — Rudovsky had made out a case that racial bias had motivated Haugen’s actions.
Rudovsky countered that reinstating Xi’s lawsuit would give him the opportunity to collect more evidence to back up that claim.Two days before he was charged, Xi said he had been offered a position as chair of Temple’s physics department. But by the time the charges were dropped and he was allowed to return to campus, the position had been filled by a colleague.
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