A Georgia Tech professor has been accused by federal prosecutors of violating customs laws by using his position to bring Chinese nationals into the United States to work at an partially state-owned Chinese information technology firm in New Jersey.
Chinese national Gee-Kung Chang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology for 19 years, was charged on March 18 alongside former ZTE USA research director Jianju Yu with conspiracy to commit visa fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud, according to Northern District of Georgia Acting U.S. Attorney Kurt Erskine.
