38 months seems light for espionage
38 months seems light for espionage
Agree. It should’ve been 38 YEARS, at a minimum.
Agreed. Have him serve his sentence, then revoke his citizenship and deport him to China. See how grateful the Chinese are.
Yea, these light sentences for pseudo-traitors is annoying as hell.
Jury acquitted him on the espionage charge. He was convicted for talking to investigators. That's why you don't do that, you let your lawyer do that.
John Harold Rogers (then around 63–64 years old), a former senior adviser in the Federal Reserve Board’s Division of International Finance, was indicted in January 2025 on two counts in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (case 1:25-cr-00033).
Count 1: Conspiracy to commit economic espionage (18 U.S.C. § 1831(a)(5)) — Allegedly conspiring with Chinese intelligence-linked individuals (posing as graduate students) to steal and pass Federal Reserve trade secrets (e.g., proprietary economic data, FOMC deliberations, briefing books, tariff info) for the benefit of the People’s Republic of China, from around 2018 onward. This carried a potential maximum of 15 years in prison.
Count 2: Making false statements (18 U.S.C. § 1001) — Allegedly lying to the Federal Reserve Board Office of Inspector General in a February 4, 2020, interview about accessing/passing sensitive information and his associations with the co-conspirators. This carried a potential maximum of 5 years.
In early February 2026, after a jury trial before Judge Dabney L. Friedrich, Rogers was acquitted on Count 1 (not guilty of the economic espionage conspiracy) but convicted on Count 2 (guilty of making false statements).
The jury reached this verdict on or around February 3, 2026, after deliberations. Post-verdict, Rogers filed motions for acquittal or a new trial on the guilty count (which were pending as of the latest available docket info). Sentencing was scheduled for May 27, 2026.
Yeah it’s light considering there was a day when such a thing got you put in front of a firing squad.
DC jury acquitted him of espionage. Pirro has an uphill climb to get a DC jury to do anything. They have no honor. I’m surprised they convicted him of anything.
38 years would be reasonable