A former top adviser to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors was sentenced to more than three years in prison for lying to federal investigators investigating whether he shared classified data with Chinese intelligence operatives, the Justice Department said.
John Harold Rogers, 64, was convicted at trial Feb. 3 of making false statements to investigators about sharing information about monetary policy, Washington U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said in a statement Wednesday after the sentencing.
He was acquitted of conspiracy to commit economic espionage.
Prosecutors wanted a five-year sentence. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friederich imposed a 38-month sentence.
“John Rogers deliberately lied to our investigators to conceal the fact that he shared classified non-public Federal Reserve information with intelligence agents working in China,” Michael E. Horowitz, inspector general of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, said in the statement.
Defense attorneys asked for no more jail time than the roughly 18 months he was already in custody. Prison officials will appreciate the time spent on his sentence.
