Huawei Disputes Federal Charges in New York Court

Huawei questioned the federal charges DOJ filed against it in the Eastern District of New York, in a Tuesday letter to Judge Ann Donnelly. “How the United States government as a whole regards the Huawei Defendants, and how this prosecution fits into the government’s ‘all-tools’ approach to advancing its policies vis-a-vis China, may be put to one side for the moment: The Department of Justice has a special responsibility to treat with equal fairness those it charges with criminal offenses,” Huawei said in docket 1:18-cr-00457-AMD: “To date it has not done so.” The allegations are “tenuous,” Huawei said (in Pacer). “On the core fraud counts, it is rare that the government charges bank fraud while conceding (as it does in its extradition paperwork) that the defendants actually disclosed the key facts,” it said. “It is equally rare to bring wire fraud charges based on communications outside the United States, between foreign corporations, concerning operations outside the United States.”