John Harold Rogers

Yes.

We are talking about the case of John Harold Rogers.

He was a former senior advisor at the Federal Reserve.

Okay.

Um- Then on Tuesday, I had a great story for everyone, and this was basically a Chinese spy inside the Federal Reserve.

So a gentleman named John Harold Rogers was prosecuted by federal authorities on one count of lying to investigators and one count of espionage.

Uh, he was found guilty of lying to investigators but cleared on the espion- espionage charge.

He is currently serving a 38, 38-month prison sentence.

You have written a fascinating spy story, but it's also a cautionary tale about how Chinese espionage works and how it can ensnare people.

It starts with the, uh, trip of John Harold Rogers, an advisor to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, to Shanghai in 2013.

Pick the story up there.

Tell us what happens next.

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Let's wrap up the federal investigation of, uh, John Harold Rogers.

What happened next?

Standing in front of the Federal Reserve building on Constitution Avenue in Washington, you are looking at the nerve center of the global financial empire.

John Harold Rogers has been one of the key figures here since 2010.

He was a senior advisor in the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board, a top-tier scholar standing at the pinnacle of world finance, overlooking the tides of global capital.

His department studied exchange rates, global capital flows, and the economic pulses of various countries, and of course, that includes China.

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65-year-old John Harold Rogers was arrested by the FBI in his Washington, D.C. area neighborhood as he walked his spaniel just days before a planned trip to China with his wife and daughter.

Oh, God.

Mm.

So...

At a high level, John Harold Rogers was walking his tiny spaniel in the suburban Washington neighborhood when FBI agents surrounded him and took him to custody.

Faced with charges aspiring for China, 65-year-old economist.

And, yeah, let's just say they believe China helped him, of course, with his career, his finances, and...

A marriage to a woman 24 years his junior.

I guess, you know, you're a 65-year-old economist named John Harold Rogers, and then you're scoring some young, hot Chinese chick who might need to be investigated because it seems like we're seeing that a lot.

Yeah.

Major aspects of warfare are constantly going on.

September 30, 2026 is when a news investigation detailed the case.

John Harold Rogers was a former senior Federal Reserve advisor.

He worked in the Division of International Finance with access to restricted information.

United States officials say a man posing as Haman Li cultivated Rogers for over a decade.