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About the China Capital investigation 
Frequently asked questions about the China Capital investigation A former senior adviser for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was sentenced to more than three years in prison for lying to federal investigators looking into whether he shared confidential data with Chinese intelligence operatives, the Justice Department said.
John Harold Rogers, 64, was convicted at trial on February 3 of making false statements to investigators about sharing information on monetary policy, Washington US attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement on Wednesday after the sentencing.
He was acquitted on a charge of conspiracy to commit economic espionage.
Prosecutors sought a sentence of five years. US District Judge Dabney Friederich imposed a term of 38 months.
“John Rogers deliberately lied to our investigators to conceal the fact he shared restricted non-public Federal Reserve information with intelligence agents working for China,” Michael E. Horowitz, inspector general for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said in the statement.
Defence lawyers asked for no further jail time beyond the nearly 18 months he already served in custody. Prison officials will credit that time towards his sentence.
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