Key facts
- A former senior adviser to the U.S. Federal Reserve, John Harold Rogers, was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison.
- Rogers was found guilty of making false statements to investigators about sharing restricted Federal Reserve information with Chinese intelligence operatives.
- He was also charged with conspiring to steal Fed trade secrets for China.
- Rogers worked in the Fed's division of international finance from 2010 to 2021.
- Prosecutors stated he shared confidential information with Chinese co-conspirators.
A former senior adviser to the U.S. Federal Reserve, John Harold Rogers, 64, has been sentenced to 38 months in federal prison for making false statements to investigators about sharing restricted information related to the central bank with Chinese intelligence operatives. Rogers was arrested in early 2025 and subsequently found guilty by a federal jury of conspiring to steal Fed trade secrets for the benefit of China. Prosecutors stated that Rogers, who worked in the Fed's division of international finance from 2010 to 2021, shared confidential information with Chinese co-conspirators who posed as graduate students. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro remarked that Rogers "spent years secretly funneling sensitive Federal Reserve information to Chinese spies, then looked investigators in the eye and lied about it." In addition to the prison sentence, Judge Dabney Friedrich ordered Rogers to serve 12 months of supervised release. Federal prosecutors had initially requested a 60-month prison term. China has previously stated it does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.