3 GOP senators come out against Biden intelligence nominee over Huawei ties
Three Republican senators say they won't back President Biden's nominee to serve as the top lawyer for the intelligence community because of his past experience working for a Chinese company accused of intellectual property theft.
Christopher Fonzone, Biden's pick to serve as general counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), did legal work for Chinese tech giant Huawei after leaving the Obama administration's National Security Council.
The company came under legal scrutiny starting in 2018, when Canadian authorities detained the firm's chief financial officer at the request of the U.S. on financial fraud charges.
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Fonzone was associated with the company through his position at the law firm Sidley Austin, doing less than 50 hours of legal work for both Huawei and China's Ministry of Commerce, according to a questionnaire he submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee.
"The firm asked me to look into a question of how U.S. law works. I did a de minimis amount of work, less than 10 hours, to explain how U.S. administrative law works, I provided it to my partners, and ... I've had no follow up since then," Fonzone told the Senate Intelligence Committee at a May 18 hearing to review his nomination.
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