Bo Mao, a Chinese citizen teaching computer science at UT Arlington, was arrested in Texas, charged with wire fraud and then transferred to New York for undisclosed reasons where his legal bills are being paid for by a subsidiary of Huwei.
Prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York requested a conflict-of-interest inquiry into the work of Thompson & Knight and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati attorneys in an intellectual property dispute Wednesday, saying that the firms are being paid by a U.S. subsidiary of Huawei, the Chinese tech company that has been linked to the crime under investigation.
Bo Mao, a Chinese citizen, was arrested in August while working as a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. He was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. His case was moved to New York for reasons that prosecutors refused to reveal—one of several details that has been redacted or sealed in the case.
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