Georgia Tech Professor Indicted on Visa, Wire Fraud Charges

Georgia Tech professor Gee-Kung Chang faces accusations of abusing the J-1 Visa program to bring Chinese nationals into the U.S.

Along with 73-year-old Chang, ZTE USA Research Director Jianjun Yu, 53, stands accused of fraudulently bringing in workers using Kang’s access to the J-1 Visa program. ZTE is a partly state-owned Chinese telecommunications and IT company.

Investigators say Chang may have used his position to obtain and maintain the visas. In the paperwork, incoming Chinese citizens would allegedly claim to be coming to work with Chang — while instead heading to work at ZTE USA in New Jersey.

In a speech at Georgia Tech in December 2020, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned of the Chinese Communist Party’s efforts at “poisoning the well” to use “higher education institutions for its own ends.”

Chang and Yu were indicted by a federal grand jury on federal charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud on March 18, 2021. Assistant U.S. Attorney Samir Kaushal is prosecuting the case.

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